When:
March 23, 2015 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
2015-03-23T19:30:00-04:00
2015-03-23T21:30:00-04:00
Where:
Burgundy Room, North York Memorial Hall
5120 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M2N 6L4
Canada
5120 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M2N 6L4
Canada
Cost:
Visitors welcome
Speaker: Sandra Joyce
Over 118,000 British children were sent to Canada from 1869 to 1939 to work as indentured farm workers and domestics in individual farms or households. Some suffered horrifically in their placements, others did well. One in ten Canadians are descendants of these children and most are unaware of this huge part of Canadian history.
Sandra is the author of The Street Arab: The Story of a British Home Child and Belonging and is Executive Director, Canada for the British Home Children Advocacy and Research Association
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