In recognition of the Home Children’s courage, ingenuity, vision & contributions in this forgotten period in Canada’s history, the Canadian Parliament has unanimously designated 2010 as the Year of the Home Child. As well, the Canadian Stamp Advisory Board of Canada will issue one stamp in October 2010 in recognition of the Home Children, & The Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism plans to include recognition of their stories in citizenship ceremonies.
Welcome to our site dedicated to the Descendants of British Home Children (BHC). We are an extension of the British Home Children Mailing List, hosted by Rootsweb. During the Child Emigration Scheme (called now British Home Children), between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada alone from Great Britain. According to the UK House of Commons Child Migrant's Trust Report, "it is estimated that some 150,000 children were dispatched over a period of 350 years—the earliest recorded child migrants left Britain for the Virginia Colony in 1618, and the process did not finally end until the late 1960s."
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:13 )
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 A Special Edition Anthology Book, to be published later this summer by Canadian Stories magazine, is a great opportunity for us to tell our stories and have them grouped together in one book, to acknowledge and honour our Home Children, and a wonderful keepsake and resource for 2010 Year of the British Home Child.
No limit for the length of story. No deadline yet (but to be published this summer).
You can include picture(s) which will be printed in black and white for the Anthology.
Send your Home Child Story to:
ejan...@sympatico.ca
When submitting your story please use the Subject line - 2010 Anthology
Ed Janzen
CANADIAN STORIES
P.O. Box 232
Fergus, Ontario - N1M 2W8
Or contact Gail Collins for information at (905) 935-4960 or gcol...@sympatico.ca |
 Would you like your Home Child to be included in the BHC 2010 Photo Memory Quilt?
THE DEADLINE IS MARCH 18, 2010!
Do you quilt? You are invited to submit a quilt square to include photo of your BHC (and/or other things related to your BHC - ship, bible, trunk, etc.). The finished square can include patchwork or applique - (embroidered, embellished).
I can send you examples of squares if you are still hesitant!
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 February 2010 14:49 )
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Home Children Canada
David Lorente
Founder
107 Erindale Avenue
Renfrew ON, K7V 4G3
Phone (613) 432-2486
email: lore...@sympatico.ca
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HOW IT CAME TO BE:
In the early 1990's I solicited ideas for a crest design that could be made into a pin that one would wear with pride. At the end of our 1994 Reunion in Ottawa at the former St George's Home, a lady in the audience, Lizzie Smith, came forward and presented me with a painting of this crest as a personal gift. The design was everything I had hoped for.
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