Our October Toronto Branch meeting took place on Monday, October 24, beginning at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). Local historian Emma Kent joined us online from Ottawa to explore the history of British Home Children through the memories of one. Emma Kent’s grandfather Jack came to Canada in 1927 as a Home Child, one of more than 100,000 children sent from Britain between 1869 and 1932 to be placed with rural families. In 2006, […]