Brit Home Children Archives - Canadian Immigration Historical Society

Indochinese refugees at Griesbach (Alberta) Base Reception Centre in 1979.

Canadian and Malaysians on boat to Bidong.

Malaysian fishing boats used initially to ferry visa officers, their files and overnight luggage on the four hour trip to the refugee camp on Pilau Bidong.

Charter flight of Indochinese refugees en route to Canada

CIHS thanks its corporate members - the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, and IRCC - for their significant support as well as its life and annual members. All these contributions allow us to pursue our objectives and activities.

The Society has carried out significant research and communication on the 1975-1980 movement to Canada of Indochinese refugees. We are especially focussed on Hearts of Freedom.

CURRENT BULLETIN ISSUE

Bulletin 103 - December 2022

Presentation on British Home Children

On Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm, the Historical Society of Ottawa and Emma Kent will offer a Zoom presentation on the Home Children. Between 1869 and 1932, 100,000 children were sent from Britain and placed with Canadian families, often to serve as cheap farm or domestic labour. Ottawa's St. George's Home, in Hintonburg, was one of Canada's principal "distribution centres" for Roman Catholic children. Emma Kent shares excerpts from her own grandfather's memoirs to explore what kind of life thes... Read more.

The British Home Children

A Silent History: The British Home Children Posted on May 3, 2012 by admin I keep asking myself the same question: How is it that I worked for 30 years in immigration in Canada and overseas, with my first posting in London, England, and yet I never heard about the movement of 100,000 children from Britain to Canada, as indentured labourers, over a 70-year period? In fact, I never heard of the British Home Children until I read a book called Little Immigrants published by Kenneth Ba... Read more.