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Colonial Office, Emigration to Canada Enclosures to Reports
Transcriptions and images from the Canadian Colonial Office document 1,888 children who emigrated from Britain to Canada between 1887 and 1892. In addition to the child’s name, age, and emigration year, these records may tell you where an individual moved from and where they ended up in Canada. For many children, there is also a detailed description of their situation within the original record image.

Register of Boys arrived in Toronto House of Industry
These 250 register entries document boys and men who the Toronto House of Industry received between 1858 and 1864. The Toronto House of Industry was a lodging house that catered to Toronto’s poor. Each record has both a transcription and an original image.

News-Cuttings Of Dr. Barnardo
Browse-only news cuttings about Dr. Barnado’s life and work. Barnardo’s organization was the largest in terms of the number of young immigrants to Canada.

The following is a request for responses to a short survey.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Canadian office is launching a National Volunteer Program in 2025!
We will invite people from across Canada to get involved—wherever CWGC markers are located. We’ll need to find volunteers who are willing to visit local cemeteries to help us inspect and maintain the war graves in their own communities.
We appreciate your feedback to determine the best way forward. Please take 5-10 minutes to answer a few questions. Your answers will help us plan and shape what a new volunteer program in Canada will look like. Thank you!

 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CY7FTN2.

Professional Boxers
Ancestry has added Web: United Kingdom, Index of Professional Boxers, 1900-1979 with 70,938 entries.

Thanks to this week’s contributors: Anonymous, gail benjafield, Gloria Tubman, Lynne Willoughby, Teresa, Sunday Thompson, Unknown.

 

In the past week, an estimated 16% of additional records have been added, all for the USA.

These Ancestry collections were updated as of 17 September.

U.S., 1800s-current, 322,404,104 entries
UK and Ireland, 1800s-current, 9,073,912 entries
Canada, 1800s-current, 8,761,838 entries
Australia and New Zealand,  1800s-current,  875,666 entries

FreeBMD Database was updated on Friday, 27 September 2024, to contain 291,560,221 unique records, up from 291,402,577.
Years with more than 10,000 additions are 1992, 1995-96 for births, and 1994-95 for marriages and deaths.

The Shannon Lecture Series is back at Carleton University this fall with the theme: Black Histories and Futures of Science and Technology. Curated by Alexa Lepera, Assistant Curator of Domestic Environments and Social Diversity at Ingenium, the series will explore the complex relationship between anti-Black racism and technology, highlighting how technology has both enabled Black resistance and contributed to community building and liberation.

This year’s lectures will bring together speakers from diverse disciplines to examine Black histories in fields such as transportation, agriculture, sports, science, and media. The first session, Ingenium’s Black and African Canadian Scientific and Technological Innovations Fellowship, will be held virtually on October 21 at 7 p.m. Additional sessions are planned for November, December, and January at the Dominion-Chalmers Centre.

Saturday, 28 September, marks British Home Child Day, honouring the achievements and contributions of these young immigrants.
The program brought around 100,000 young immigrants to Canada. Despite its flaws, it offered many opportunities for a better and healthier life than they might have had in Britain1. We must acknowledge the dedication of the leaders of the charitable agencies who, lamenting the plight of needy children on Britain’s mean streets, took action to move them into a more promising situation.

The children’s stories of resilience and achievement are a notable part of Canada’s immigrant heritage.

We should not sugar-coat the challenges these young immigrants faced adapting to a new country, culture, and rural lifestyle — experiences shared by many immigrants throughout Canadian history.

Many British home children found educational opportunities, developed skills, and built successful careers and families in Canada. Their contributions to Canadian society were significant, particularly in agriculture, rural development, and the military.

This nuanced understanding, free of the label of unwilling victims, allows us to appreciate the variety of home children’s experiences. Historical events often have mixed legacies.

The Canadian government actively supported and facilitated the immigration of home children, viewing it as a means to address labour shortages and contribute to nation-building. It must share credit for the successes as well as the shortcomings.

1. As a measure of health, in 1900, the infant mortality rate was 20% higher in the UK than in Canada.