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BOOK - The Little Immigrants
Kenneth Bagnell.
Between 1870 and the Depression, more than 80,000 impoverished children from the British Isles journeyed to Canada.
Known as the "home children" they were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the farm labor shortage. Here is a heart rending story of youngsters to many of whom a new life in Canada meant only hardship and abuse.
270 pgs index bibliography paperback
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