Barclay Ladies’ Group
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 ...
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BHC Walter Dance by granddaughter-in-law Marlene Dance
We never knew anything about my husband’s grandfather Walter Dance, and the only answer to any question was “he was an English Orphan who abandoned the family years ago”. No one in the family ever talked about him it was like he had never existed.
In 1999 when my husband’s father died, we thought that any opportunity to know something had probably died with him. But later on, going through old ...
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52 Weeks Ancestor Challenge – Week 26 – BHC John McVittie by granddaughter Mary Lynn McVittie
This was shared at a recent Women's Institute meeting in Norval. It was part of a school project in 1984. It is written by the 12 year old granddaughter of British Home Child, John McVittie.
"This is a story about the little immigrants, the orphans, who came to Canada between 1870 and the Great Depression of the 1930s, and in particular, about one of these home children, my grandfather, John M...
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