Some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of ten - were shipped from Britain to Canada by Poor Law authorities and voluntary bodies during the 50 years following Confederation in 1867. How did this come about? What were the motives and methods of the people involved in both countries? Why did it come to an end? What effects did it have on the children involved and what eventually became of them? These are the questions Roy Parker explores in a meticulously researched work that brings together economic, political, social, medical, legal, administrative and religious aspects of the story in Britain and Canada. He concludes with a moving review of evidence from more recent survivors of child migration, discussing the lifelong effects of their experiences with the help of modern psychological insights.
His book - humane and highly professional - will capture and hold the interest of many: the academic, the practitioner and the general reader; and they will include the relatives and descendants, both in Britain and Canada, of the children around whom this study revolves.
CUSTOMERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA: Copies of this title are available from UBC Press, www.ubcpress.ca
- ISBN13 9781847420145
- Publish Date 24 January 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 August 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Policy Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 376
- Language English