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Books, Maps & Other Resources
Home Childen, Barnardo Children, etc
Genealogy & History
NOVEL - The Street Arab - The Story of a British Home Child
By Sandra Joyce
Published by Welldone Publishing, Toronto, 2011 (Sept 28)
Softcover
6 X 9"
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We seldom include a novel in our catalog but have made an exception with this book because of it's careful attention to historic detail. Those with an interest in the 18th and early 19th century relocation of orphaned and poor British children to Canada will benefit from reading this book.
The Street Arab - The Story of a British Home Child was launched at Upper Canada Village at a special event dedicated to the first British Home Child Day in Ontario on September 28, 2011.
"As the MPP for the Riding of Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, I congratulate Sandra Joyce on taking the time to put thoughts into print. Thank you, Sandra, for sharing this with us, and for unlocking one of the many stories that would never have been told, if not for a loving descendant."
Jim Brownell, Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP)
The Street Arab is a powerful novel about a boy, from a small mining town in Scotland, whose family is torn apart by the First World War and resulting poverty.
After foraging for food one day, Robbie returns home to find his family missing and suffers a horrific accident. With strength and determination, he forges ahead and is sent, along with countless other British Home Children, to Canada to begin a new life.
What awaits him is more than he could ever have imagined.
The Street Arab, written almost a century later, pays homage to the children involved in one of Canada’s largest immigration schemes. It is estimated that ten percent of Canadians are British Home Child descendants.
Book details:
291 Pages
6 X 9"
Paperback (perfectbound)
Published by Welldone Publishing, Toronto, 2011 (Sept 28)
ISBN 978-0-9877640-0-3 (Softcover)
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