British Home Child Presentation by Margaret Griffiths
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Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location:
Barrhead Public Library
Community member Margaret Griffiths will be hosting a presentation about British Home Children in the library on Wednesday, September 27th at 1:30pm. Margaret has a family member who was brought into Canada as one of these children.
Between 1869 and 1939, over 100,000 children were sent from Britain to Canada through assisted juvenile emigration. These migrants are called “home children” because most went from an emigration agency's home for children in Britain to its Canadian receiving home. The children were mostly placed with families in rural Canada.
There were also some Middlemore children who were brought to a farm school in British Columbia between 1936 and 1948 by the Fairbridge Society.