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Photo of British immigrant children from Dr. Barnardo's Homes at landing stage, St. John, New Brunswick

British immigrant children from Dr. Barnardo's Homes at landing stage, St. John, New Brunswick.
Source

Home Children (1869-1930)

Introduction

Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Members of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa [www.bifhsgo.ca/] are locating and indexing the names of these Home Children found in different records held by Library and Archives Canada.