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Quarriers child migration to Canada

Tue, 2008-02-05 00:40 - Niels

Between 1871 and 1938, Quarriers, known at that time as The Orphan Homes of Scotland, sent over 7,000 children to new lives in Canada. This was part of a child migration programme that involved many children's charities in Britain at the time. Most of the children went initially to reception and distribution homes at Belleville and Brockville in Ontario and then went to live on farms and homesteads in the surrounding countryside. It was often a hard and uncompromising life, involving long hours work in all weathers.

from: http://www.quarriers.org.uk/about/history/canada.php

Start date
Year:
1872
Month:
Jul
Day:
17
End date
Year:
1938
Month:
Apr
Day:
16
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