Author: BAGNELL,KENNETH
Title: The Little Immigrants : The Orphans Who Came to Canada
Description: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada. 1980, 1st Can Ed. (ISBN: 0771595719) Hardcover. Book, " Between 1870 and the 1930s, more than 80,000 children from the British Isles were sent to Canada. Mainly from the slums, some were orphans, some were taken from families who could no longer provide for them. All were uprooted from familiar surroundings and sent to live amongst a nation of strangers." 271p. plates. bibliography. index. Donor inscription on ffep, else fine. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: 0771595719 Immigration Children Orphans Barnardo's Homes Multiculturalism Immigrants in Canada


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