[BCMA] Not Forgotten: British Home Children in the West

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The first presentation in our new "Exploring Social Justice" Speaker Series


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April 25, 2019

Not Forgotten: British Home Children in the West
A Presentation by Sean Arthur Joyce
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Between 1869 and 1948, 100,000 children from poor neighbourhoods in Britain were emigrated without parental support (or consent, in some cases) to work as indentured labourers in Canada. Known as the ‘Home Children,’ the promise of a new and better life in Canada was often betrayed by long hours of grueling labour and the social stigma of being an underclass. Though some of the children did well, many were exploited and abused, their new lives hardly an improvement on the ones they lived in British slums and orphanages.

Join author Sean Arthur Joyce at the Vernon Museum on Sunday, May 5, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM, as he pulls aside the veil of obscurity from this essential yet little-known aspect of Canadian history. “The wider story interested me because I realized if this happened in my family, it must have happened in many other Canadian families,” he says. Indeed, an estimated four million people in Canada can trace their roots to Home Children—approximately one in eight Canadians. Are you one of them?

Joyce’s book, Laying the Children’s Ghosts to Rest: Canada’s Home Children in the West, explores what happened to some of these children in Western Canada. The book is the result of seven years of research and writing. It combines exhaustive research with creative nonfiction storytelling techniques to paint a vivid picture of life for a Canadian Home Child.

Sean Arthur Joyce Presentation

Location: Greater Vernon Museum and Archives
Address: 3009 32nd Avenue
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2019
Time: 2:00 to 4:00 PM
Admission: By donation
Phone: 250-550-3140

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