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Re: [TSL] Ships which Carried "Former Child Migrants" ??
Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca> on 05/28/2010

Betty,

Our own Marj Kohli would be able to address most of your questions, but she 
is away from her computer at present.   Marj has a wonderful website

Young Immigrants to Canada
http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/homeadd.html

And she has written a fabulous book on the subject

    The Golden Bridge: Young Immigrants to Canada, 1833-1839 from Dundurn 
Press October 2003.
     http://www.dundurn.com/books/golden_bridge

Regards,

Sue
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At 06:23 AM 2010-05-28 -0400, Betty wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I don't remember whether I've asked this question recently.    But, I
>wondered if there is any information, or any data base, which tells of the
>ships which carried the  "Former Child Migrants."     I'm not sure of the
>years this particular scheme went on, but I had thought it was in the 1910
>to 1960 timeframe.
>
>I've had trouble before finding a web site which had a good history of this
>"Child Migration Scheme" which involved sending the children from the United
>Kingdom to Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Malta, etc.    But, I just now
>found this web site.   But, I'm surprised it only mentions the 1938 to 1950
>timeframe.
>
>http://www.childmigrantstrust.com/our-work/child-migration-history
>
>I clicked on other things on that web site and see the scheme went on
>possibly up to 1970.     Another web site reminds us of all the "ABUSE"
>those children suffered from -  which was slightly different from what
>happened in Canada.
>
>When the ships left the U.K. and were heading to Canada,  there were
>sometimes 300 to 500 "unwanted children" on each ship.     Young adults were
>sometimes allowed to get on the ships with them - if there was room.
>So, I'm curious whether that many "unwanted children" were on a particular
>ship heading to Australia.      Or,  were they put on a ship which was
>already heading there with other passengers?
>
>Betty        (near Lowell, MA, USA)


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