For immediate release
April 3, 2013
Breaking the Silence: British Home Children in Canada
Ottawa-Over 120,000 children came to Canada as domestic servants and agricultural labourers from the British Isles between the 1860’s and the 1940’s. Only now are many Canadians learning that a family member was a Home Child.
The Ottawa Public Library in partnership with Ontario East Home Child Family and the British Home Child Advocacy & Research Association will present information and provide assistance in finding their stories.
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2013
Time: 1:00-4:30 p.m.
Location: Main Library, 120 Metcalfe Street, Mezzanine and Auditorium
For more information, visit www.BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca or contact InfoService at 613-580-2940 or InfoService@BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca.
This program is free and registration is not required.
2 comments:
WOW...I have relatives of my husband who came to Canada through the Barnardo's scheme...
As an Australian who has researched extensively on the children who were bought here to Australia on the promises of Oranges and Sunshine it brings a tinge of sadness that many of these children believed that they had been orphans when all the time their parents (father or mother) had been alive.
Thank you Elizabeth for sharing this information.
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