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From: "jcfalk" <>
Subject: Re: Care given, plus reasons for emigrating to Canada
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 22:45:38 -0700
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Connie wrote,
Firsr of all, Happy New year to one and all. Best wishes on your searches
in the coming year. Hope most of you have better luck than I have had so
far.
After reading the responses about the care given at some of the farms our
ancestors were sent to, I have to add my two bits. My father was sent to a
few farms in southern Ontario, I have the documnets from the agency that
sent him, which includes letters written by the farmer about my father, and
some my father wrote. My father hated the farm, he did his best but he was
not a farmer.
He tried his best and was a good worker. In one letter my father wrote, he
asked the agency for more money so he could buy a warmer winter coat, the
response to that letter was "no." They told him to be more diligent with
his spending, and maybe the farmer's wife could mend his coat. I often
wonder were on earth they thought he had spent his money. He ate and slept
mostly in the barn; especialy when the family had company. His memories of
those days were only bitter memories.
One letter he wrote that tore at my heart strings was one he wrote back to
the orphange he was first sent to at the age of three. He asked them if
they knew the name of his mother, and if they did, could they please tell
him. They was no letter sent back. This is what my search is all about,
to find the name of either his mother or father . He never owned a birth
certificate nor was his birth registered.
My next response is about were Barnardo's sent the children. My father
didn't talk very much about his childhood but one day he told one of his old
friends that they were all lined up and told about the wonderful
opportunities life held for them in Canada, New South Wales, and Australia.
Than they were asked which one they wanted to be sent to. Well none of them
knew were New South Wales was and thought it must be around the coast from
were they lived. Sad indeed.
So he was one that choose Canada.
Sorry for the length of this .
---------Connie------daughter of BHC, William James Lemmon / Lemon---------


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