Orphans » Home Children & Child Migrants

Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Members of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa are locating and indexing the names of these Home Children found in passenger lists in the custody of the Library and Archives Canada.

List of Girls in Miss Rye's Peckham Homes 1881

Search for ancestors in a list of orphaned and impoverished Home Children.

Nation Builders: Barnardo Children in Canada

A book by Gail H. Corbett.

Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search For A Stolen Identity

A book by Perry Snow.

Organisations Helping Former Child Migrants To Find Family - National Archives of Australia

Quarriers Charity

Originally Orphan Homes of Scotland located at Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire.

Ragged School Museum

The museum resides in three canal-side warehouses in Copperfield Road, East London. These buildings were previously used by Dr Barnardo to house the largest ragged school in London.

Records Relating to Child Migrants

From the Archives Office of Tasmania.

Stories of British Home Children (YouTube)

The Children's Society

The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada

A book by Kenneth Bagnell.

William Quarrier Home Children Association

An association of Scottish home children and their families.