NOTE:  PLEASE CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR UPDATES
The March 2012 Newsletter is now posted in the Members Only
NEW: "Flamborough Archives BHC in WW1" in Members Only

 Current Membership stands at "94"

Goals

  1. To bring together genealogy researchers who have like interests in British Home Children (BHC) to share their research experiences.
  2. To encourage possible descendants of BHC to investigate their ancestry.
  3. To raise awareness of the history and contribution of the BHC in Canada.
  4. To identify resources for research on individual BHC.
  5. To identify resources for research into the social conditions in the UK and Canada which influenced the lives of the BHC.

BRITISH HOME CHILD

A SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP of THE ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Welcome to the OGS British Home Child - Special Interest Group

From 1869 to 1939 various workhouses, sheltering homes, orphanages and child care organizations in Great Britain immigrated over 100,000 orphaned, abandoned, pauper children ages 1 to 18 to Canada. Known as the British Home Children (BHC), life for these children coming alone to Canada to work as domestics and farm labourers forging ahead in a new land was not always easy.

Of the over 50 sending agencies, some of the more well known names are Rye, Macpherson, Fegan, Quarriers, Barnardo, Middlemore, Catholic Emigration Society, Salvation Army, Church of England Waif & Strays.

It is estimated that 12%, over 4 million, of the Canadian population is a descendant of a Home Child. Home Children Descendants now live worldwide.

 
Phil (interm newsletter editor) is looking for your Home Children Stories to put into the uewsletter Please contact him.
Conference 2012: Stop by the booth in the Marketplace to say Hello.
Please attend, the annual Membership meeting to be held at the Conference in Kingston on Sat.

 

Do you have a report on a Home Child and would like to share? Let us know. 
Then, email BHC-SIG BHC@ogs.on.ca
Web Master: Norma Hughson