A "Home Child" Story by Bruce Adams
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English
Creative Commons:
Museum use only
Accession Number:
S2017.550.1
Story Text:
I have just completed our family genealogy. My mother and her brothers and sister came to Canada 1920-1923 under Barnardo’s Plan to send U.K. children to Canada or Australia. Some children faced shocking events. One brother (14) committed suicide. The other, “I didn’t have a childhood” and refuses to speak about his farm life.
It truly was a blight in our history.
