Between 1869 and the late 1930s, British agencies sent more than 100,000 children to Canada. That’s the count from Library and Archives Canada (LAC). The UK’s National Archives, counting only to 1930, puts the figure at 80,000. Maybe your family tell...
Between 1869 and the late 1930s, British agencies sent more than 100,000 children to Canada. That’s the count from Library and Archives Canada (LAC). The UK’s National Archives, counting only to 1930, puts the figure at 80,000. Maybe your family tells a story like this one. A great-grandparent crossed the Atlantic alone as a child. […]
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