Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From 1867 to 1949 nearly 120,000 children were shipped across the sea to Canada without their parents. These were the British Home ...

Between 1863 and 1949 over 100,000 children were immigrated from the UK to Canada. Today Canada is home to over four million descendants of these British Home Children and yet most Canadian's are ...

Officials in Britain have formally embraced a Canadian woman’s campaign to erect a memorial to the victims of a long-forgotten fire tragedy that killed 15 people – including one of her relatives – ...

KITCHENER - Lori Oschefski’s journey to discover her mother’s roots took her to unexpected places, and today the Barrie woman is on a crusade to have a little known group of people recognized for ...

Barrie author Lori Oschefski is pictured with her book, Bleating of the Lambs: Canada’s British Home Children, Saturday afternoon at White Lions Tea House in Orillia, where she signed copies and ...

“75 lives, 75 children. Brought here to thrive, instead were forgotten.” So reads the inscription on a soon-to-be dedicated new monument commemorating the all-too-short lives of dozens of British Home ...

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