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From: "Dorothy Holden" <>
Subject: RE: [bhc] Female Immigration to BC
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:06:02 -0000
In-Reply-To: <000a01c6107e$198ea3e0$26634246@yourb79wz4rose>


Thanks for sending this to the list Elizabeth, I found it very interesting,
especially the naiveté of the people sending these young girls out to an
area where female company was quite clearly in very short supply and not
anticipating that without family to help them some girls might have strayed
off the path!

No mention of the morals of the men I suppose!

My mum-in-law's Aunt was sent out to Canada aged 14 in 1908, her mother had
died some years before and her father had remarried and unfortunately died
in the March of 1908.

Her step-mother seems to have wasted no time in getting rid of her
stepchildren. How hard it must have been for her being sent away from home,
to a country many miles away and with no family support when she got there.
At least in the UK she had a brother and sister and cousins/Aunts and
Uncles. How much harder it must have been for the girls in the 1840-1900's!

I feel so sorry for these girls, branded as having "gone bad" when back home
in England it was perfectly ok for the upper class men to have mistresses
and to frequent brothels.

Dorothy
Dover Kent Uk




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