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Underwood, Sara.
Subjects
Middlemore Children's Emigration Homes -- History.
Home children (Canadian immigrants)
Home children (Canadian immigrants) -- Prince Edward Island -- Biography.
Child welfare -- England -- History.
Child welfare -- Canada -- History.
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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Underwood, Sara.
Middlemore Children's Emigration Homes -- History.
Home children (Canadian immigrants)
Home children (Canadian immigrants) -- Prince Edward Island -- Biography.
Child welfare -- England -- History.
Child welfare -- Canada -- History.
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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Awful
kind
: the
story
of the
Middlemore
children
of
Prince
Edward
Island
/ Sara Underwood.
by
Underwood, Sara.
Sara Underwood, c2018.
Call #:
325.71016 U563a
Subjects
Middlemore
Children
's Emigration Homes -- History.
Home
children
(Canadian immigrants)
Home
children
(Canadian immigrants) --
Prince
Edward
Island
-- Biography.
Child welfare -- England -- History.
Child welfare -- Canada -- History.
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
ISBN:
9781775264712 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Story
of the
Middlemore
children
of
Prince
Edward
Island
Description:
319 p. : photos ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"More than 100,000
children
were sent to Canada from heavily industrialized areas in Britain between 1869 and 1948 in the belief that they would have a better future. For many, their lives were bleak and lonely. They were refused the educational opportunities they would have had back home, forced to do the work of an adult, poorly fed, poorly clothed, and often unpaid. Almost 200 “orphans” were sent to
Prince
Edward
Island
, Canada, as British Home
Children
between 1893 and 1930. While a few of the
children
were adopted into families, most of them were used as domestic servants and labourers on farms and in homes across the
Island
. The average age was 10 1⁄2 and two-thirds of the
children
were boys.
Awful
Kind
tells their stories through the reports
Middlemore
agents and Islanders sent back to the Home, and correspondence from Islanders and the
children
themselves. “Sara does a fantastic job of putting one into the shoes of these
children
, triggering an emotional response and allowing us to imagine just how life altering this experience must have been on these
children
. Sara’s book will go a long way in making sure that the stories of the British Home
Children
secure their chapter in Canada’s collective history”. – Guy Lauzon, MP for Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, Home Child descendent, and sponsor of Bill M-133, which established British Home Child Day."--From publisher.
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Adult Nonfiction
325.71016 U563a
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Local History Collection
325.71016 U563a
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