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Clarington’s British Home Children
Speakers include: Organizer and long-time compiler of Home Children in Clarington, Sherlee Latooze who will be launching her book. Sandra Joyce, Co-Founder and Vice-President of British Home Child Group International and Author of The Street Arab - The Story of a British Home Child, Belonging and the Young Adult Trees and Rocks, Rocks and Trees. Ivy Succee, founder of the Hazelbrae Barnardo Home Memorial Group and co-creator of the Barnardo Memorial in Peterborough.
Find out more »Unveiling of Historical Plaque and British Home Child Day 2018
In partnership with the Niagara Historical Society and the Niagara Museum, the British Home Child Group International is proud to announce that a historical plaque is going to be erected in Rye Heritage Park in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The plaque, long overdue, is to remember Maria Rye who was the first person to bring children to Canada as part of the child migrant scheme. It is also to remember all the children who passed through its doors. The idea of the plaque…
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