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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 ...
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Champion of British Home Children to bring her story to Sarnia

Sandra Joyce, with personal connection to issue will speak at event Tuesday evening By Editorial Staff April 10, 2017 Events, Local News Sandra Joyce, a Toronto writer known for helping to facilitate an official apology for the actions of the British government in sending more than 100,000 children to Canada, is taking her story to Sarnia Tuesday evening, when she will speak to the monthly...
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Toronto writer instrumental in recent House of Commons apology to British home children

By Barbara Simpson, Sarnia Observer Thursday, March 23, 2017 7:11:06 EDT PM British home children advocate Sandra Joyce is pictured here after the House of Commons issued a formal apology to these children who worked in Canada as indentured farm workers and domestics. Pictured here, from left to right, are NDP MP Jenny Kwan, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, Bloc Quebecois MP Luc Theri...
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Bradford Times March 2017

Long-overdue apology to British Home Children Ottawa - It was a moment long-awaited by British Home Children and their descendants. On February 16, the Canadian House of Commons passed a motion, formally apologizing to the children uprooted through the long-standing migration program. From 1869 to the end of the 1940s, 55 agencies in Great Britain sent more than 100,000 children to Canada...
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Inside Toronto article March, 2017

Leslieville author Sandra Joyce speaks about British Home Children Leslieville resident is the co-founder, vice-president of British Home Child Group International Beach Mirror By Joanna Lavoie Leslieville resident and author Sandra Joyce will be speaking about British Home Children in Canada on Tuesday, March 21. Presented by the Beach and East Toronto Historical Society, the free talk tit...
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52 Weeks of Ancestors – Week 23 | Robert and Thomas Joyce by BHC Daughter and Niece Sandra Joyce

My dad, Robert Joyce and I. (Sandra Joyce)
Growing up, we always thought that our family was small. Even though we had aunts and uncles and a grandmother on our mother’s side, they lived in far-off England . All we knew of them was that every year on our birthdays and at Christmas, small presents from overseas would arrive. We knew very little about our Dad’s family: his brother was ‘out west’ and his mother had died. His father had...
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