2010 year of the British Home child, some people may be wondering who a British Home child is. Try to imagine being a very young child from an impoverished background being offered the opportunity to have a wonderful life and live in a land where the sun always shines, even though it meant leaving their mother, father, sisters, and brothers behind. These children some of them orphans, even street children were horded up under the child migration scheme founded by Kingsley Fairbridge in 1869 and sent to live in a foreign land, some were even taken without their parents knowledge, 150,000 children over a period of 350 years, this practice lasted right up until the late 1960’s, and far from being the promised land when they arrived these children found themselves no more than slaves working as servants in households and doing farm labouring work, being abused with no one who cared. Some so cruelly treated many committed suicide, to find out more about these lost innocents click on the links below, There are now still thousands still searching for their lost families so I am giving some links here that may help.
(Sadly Minister Jason Kenney issued a statement that Canada will not be apologizing to child migrants.)
http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/17/immigration-minister-jason-kenney-no-apology-for-abuse-of-home-children/
http://britishhomechildren.org/
http://www.genealogylinks.net/canada/all-canada/immigration.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~britishhomechildren/
http://www.cic.gc.ca/English/resources/publications/legacy/chap-2b.asp#chap2-12
http://retirees.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/homeadd.html
British apology
Australian Apology
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bn/sp/childmigrants.htm
God Bless you all
http://www.carers-healingspur.co.uk/
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