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From: Perry Snow <>
Subject: FW: A Virtual Archive-Children in Care 1881-1918
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 10:38:25 -0600


Hi Janet
Thanks for this update of the Children's Society page.

I made references to it before but it seemed to take them a year to get the site functional.
Very interesting site in many respects, escpecially listing all of their homes in England, and
publishing case file correspondence re children.

Many reference books, including my own, are absent from their bibliography. I wrote to them a year
ago about this and received a bureaucratic gooblygook reply and no answer to why there were no
references on their site to their involvement in the British Child Emigration Scheme to Canada or
Australia .
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~britishhomechildren/zreading_list.htm
Good British Stock: Child and Youth Migration to Australia, 1901-1983.
Empty Cradles. Humphreys, Margaret. London, England: Transworld, 1994
Lost Children of the Empire. Bean, Phillip and Joy Melville. London, England: Unwin Hyman, 1989
Barnardo Children in Canada. Corbett, Gail H. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Woodland Publishing, 1981
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924.
Parr, Joy. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1980
The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada. Bagnell, Kenneth. Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
Macmillan of Canada, 1980
The Home Children. Harrison, Phyllis. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Watson & Dwyer, 1979

I did not spend much time on this site, but could not find any reference to the Home my father was
in, and could not find any references to the Gibbs Distributing Home in Sherbrooke Quebec or
references to Canada (other than a letter that a boy was 'anxious to be sent to Canada.)'

Have added a link to this page on our website.

Somewhere in the BHC Mail List Archives are messages re the Children's Society's policy re release
of info from case files. When you see the amount of correspondence in the sample case files on
this site, it is frustrating and sad that they choose not to provide inquirers with photocopies of
the complete files. There are so many details that might be helpful to an inquirer, that are not
released to them

Best Wishes

Perry Snow: Chartered Clinical Psychologist
Author: Neither Waif Nor Stray: http://www.upublish.com/books/snow.htm
BHC Mail List Administrator: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/can/britishhomechildren.html
BHC Website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~britishhomechildren


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Mauza [mailto:]
Sent: August 6, 2004 2:13 PM
To:
Subject: A Virtual Archive-Children in Care 1881-1918


www.hiddenlives.org.uk/

I'm not sure if this website has been brought to the attention of the BHC list. I searched the BHC
archives but didn't find a previous mention.

Included in the wealth of information are links to many Homes, links to publications, such as the
Waifs and Strays magazines, which are digitized and broken down by month and year, and which you
can read, page by page. I couldn't magnify the screen to read well, printing a page gives somewhat
easier reading.

There are many anonymous case files of children put into care, which give details of life
circumstances and correspondence related to their admission into care. There are also pictures of
several aspects of children's lives.

Hope list members find this interesting.

Janet
Abbotsford, BC

Searching for family for 4 IMPEY children brought from Bethnal Green to Canada in 1890

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