They Were But Children: The Immigration of British Home Children to Canada
This essay draws attention to a little-known era in Canadian history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in which nearly 100,000 British children came to this country as child labourers. Research indicates that there was political and social support in both countries, especially at the outset, for poor and/or homeless British children to be sent to live with and work for Canadian families. As a result, several benevolent societies and religious organizations developed and carried out child migration schemes, bringing children to Canada to be trained as domestic servants or farm labourers. Controversy, doubts and suspicions eventually grew around the organizations and also extended to the children, many of whom came to be looked upon as having criminal tendencies, low intellect, low moral standards, and/or being without feelings. Recent research carried out with some Home Children, as they were called, points out the devastating effects such views had on the children. Feelings of shame, unworthiness, and inferiority persisted throughout their childhoods and adult lives. 
 
Key Words: benevolent societies, British Poor Law, child labour, child migration to Canada, Home Children, Thomas Barnardo
'Suffer Little Children': British child migration as a study of journeyings between centre and periphery
Looking back, looking forward Of all the former Empires of settlement, the British Empire was unique in sending overseas children seen as being on the margins of society. Child migration to the Americas began in the seventeenth century but was at its height in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries when it was estimated that almost 80,000 children were sent to Canada. The scholarship of such historians as Joy Parr and Gillian Wagner in the early 1980s drew attention to the complex context of British child migration, involving voluntary organizations, the imperial state and the parents of many of the children. In Canada particularly, child migrants came to play an important part in rural economies. In the twentieth century child migration continued on a smaller scale until at least the late 1960s with most child migrants being sent to Australia. The survivors of these child migration schemes are now men and women in middle to late age. Over the past two decades, there has been an increasing media and government interest in the history of British child migration. Since the late 1980s the children sent to the former British Dominions of white settlement have been represented as The Lost Children of Empire separated from family and kin and exiled overseas to hardship. It has been suggested that in the years after 1945 alone up to 10,000 child migrants were sent
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