Library and Archives Canada (LAC) yesterday announced the launch of its online Guide to Sending Organizations and Receiving Homes about researching records about the 100,000 or more Home Children who came to Canada from the British Isles between 1869 and 1932.
The guide lists the organizations that sent children to Canada and the Homes where they were first received before placement. It also includes organizations that recruited older girls and boys for domestic employment and farm training, however, although they were juvenile immigrants, they were not Home Children.
You will also learn in the guide about the records that are held at LAC and other institutions in Canada and in the British Isles.
The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa has good information on its website about Home Children.
Lorine McGinnis Schulze writes about Finding an Ancestor’s Full Record on the NEW Home Children Database in her blog, Olive Tree Genealogy.
