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THE BRITISH HOME CHILDREN

 

 

THE BRITISH CHILD EMIGRATION SCHEME TO CANADA (1870-1957)

 

100,000 British Home Children (alleged orphans) were sent to Canada by over 50 British Child Care organizations.  These 4-15 year old children worked as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants until they were 18 years old.  The British Child Care organizations professed a dominant motive of providing these children with a better life than they would have had in Britain, but they had other ignoble and pecuniary motives.

 

The organizations rid themselves of an unwanted segment of their society and profited when they sold these children to Canadian farmers.  Siblings in care in Britain were separated from their families and each other.  Siblings were separated from each other when they were sent to Canada.  Most never saw each other again.  Many spent their lives trying to identify their parents and find their siblings and most were unsuccessful.  An unknown number of children ran away from their indentured labour in Canada to the United States.  Millions of Americans may be descended from British Home Children.

 

The 4-5 million Canadian/American descendants of the British Home Children have 20 million British Grandparents, Uncles, and Aunts.  How could this many people not know they are related to one another?  Their mutual searches have been hampered by the unwillingness of the childcare organizations to readily release vital personal information. 

 

For the past 10 years, I've been collecting every bit of information I can about as many British Home Children as I can and storing this information in the British Home Children Registry.   It is a comprehensive database of 57,000 British Home Children records.  It is the only multi-sending-organization database of its kind known to exist.  It was designed to create an ongoing legacy to preserve BHC identities in perpetuity, and to help Canadian/American descendants and their British relatives restore their family ties so cruelly severed by the organizations involved in the British Child Emigration Scheme to Canada.

                                                             

 

    Frederick George Snow

    17/09/1909 – 17/09/1994  

    A British Home Child

   

 

 Perry Snow MA Psychologist

 A Stolen Identity Reclaimed

 Meeting British Relatives

 

 

 

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4,200 Claimed by Descendants   

 

A   B   C   D   E   F  G   H   I  J   K   L   M 

N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Y   Z    

 

 52,8000 Unclaimed by Descendants

 

A   B   C   D   E   F  G   H   I  J   K   L   M

      N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Y   Z   

 

 

 

 

4,000 WW1 ORPHAN SOLDIERS

600 Claimed by their Descendants

3,400 Unclaimed by their Descendants

 

 

 

75 BHC to BHC MARRIAGES

 

1,450 BHC MARRIAGES

 

 

 

400 Isle of Man Records

  35 Claimed by their Descendants

    365 Unclaimed by their Descendants

 

 

 

800 BHC INFORMALLY ‘ADOPTED BY’ THEIR MASTERS

145 Claimed by their Descendants

    655 Unclaimed by their Descendants

 

 

200 BHC WHO DIED WHILE ‘IN CARE’

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Perry Snow BA (Hons) MA Clinical Psychologist

4103 Centre Street NW Calgary Alberta Can T2E 2Y6

Phone/Fax:  403 288 4477 Email:  Perry Snow