In recognition of the Home Children’s courage, ingenuity, vision & contributions in this forgotten period in Canada’s history, the Canadian Parliament has unanimously designated 2010 as the Year of the Home Child. As well, the Canadian Stamp Advisory Board of Canada will issue one stamp in October 2010 in recognition of the Home Children, & The Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism plans to include recognition of their stories in citizenship ceremonies.
Welcome to our site dedicated to the Descendants of British Home Children (BHC). We are an extension of the British Home Children Mailing List, hosted by Rootsweb. During the Child Emigration Scheme (called now British Home Children), between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada alone from Great Britain. According to the UK House of Commons Child Migrant's Trust Report, "it is estimated that some 150,000 children were dispatched over a period of 350 years—the earliest recorded child migrants left Britain for the Virginia Colony in 1618, and the process did not finally end until the late 1960s."
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 Home Children Canada
David Lorente
Founder
107 Erindale Avenue
Renfrew ON, K7V 4G3
Phone (613) 432-2486
email:
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HOW IT CAME TO BE:
In the early 1990's I solicited ideas for a crest design that could be made into a pin that one would wear with pride. At the end of our 1994 Reunion in Ottawa at the former St George's Home, a lady in the audience, Lizzie Smith, came forward and presented me with a painting of this crest as a personal gift. The design was everything I had hoped for.
I had envisioned something that could be used on pin and on "statty" to pique people's interest and cause them to ask about home children if they did not know about them. I also wanted the pin to be a signal to those who came to recognize it that the wearer was willing and eager to talk about home child connections and to share stories with anyone. It was to be the logo of our networking group across Canada and a token that I could send to prominent people like Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Chretien and even Princess Diana as a constant reminder of us. It was also to be a "freebie" that I would give every Home Child I met or learned about. Lizzie's gift was special for another reason. Lizzie, now one of our more than twenty unofficial "branch chairs," is the very proud Francophone daughter of an English home boy who was placed in a totally French environment where he was well treated, and in effect, became French as so many like him did.
Child Migration affected every province in Canada to some degree and crossed linguistic lines. At our Home Children Canada Reunion in Stratford ON on August 19, 2001, more than 1,200 showed up to celebrate their roots. It was the largest gathering of child migrants in North America.
OUR CREST AND PIN EXPLAINED
The LION and field of Red represent the Mother country that sent the children to us.
The silhouette of the INDUSTRIAL CENTRE represents the places where most poor people lived and whence most home children came.
The OCEAN LINER bringing them westward across the Atlantic or THE GOLDEN BRIDGE is guided by the STAR OF GOOD HOPE.
CANADA is presented symbolically by the GOLDEN SKY, ROLLING HILLS and MOUNTAINS, FIELDS and RIVER (thin blue liine) and by the SHEAVES OF WHEAT (symbol of the BREAD or the STAFF OF LIFE and the promise of no more starvation.)
The lowest field shows the emblem of our country - the RED MAPLE LEAF against a field of white; RED and WHITE are our national colors.
The motto is in Latin. SPES IN CANADA means (OUR) HOPE IS IN CANADA.
Pins are $3 (CA) each and crests are $10 (CA) plus postage. Cheques are payable to Dave Lorente. All funds received are used for Home Children projects only. |
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