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Childhood Lost: The Story of Canada's Home Children
For more than 70 years, Canada and Britain were involved in an immigration scheme so cruel it could have come straight from a Dickens’ novel. From 1869 to the late 1930’s more than 100,000 unaccompanied British children were shipped from the United Kingdom to Canada as cheap agricultural labourers and domestic servants. These children were part of a little known British Child Immigration scheme run by 50 childcare organizations in the British Isles. The children, most between the ages of 4 and 14, became known as the Home Children.
1 X 60 Documentary Special
Written by Donna Davies
Produced by Cellar Door and Ocean Entertainment
Rights available: Worldwide Rights available
Contact Gretha Rose
gretha@cellardoor.tv
Immigrant children from Dr. Barnardo's Homes at Landing Stage
St. John, New Brunswick
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