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the golden bridge
I don’t know whether you have heard of the children that were sent to Canada from the UK from about 1880 to the late 1930’s. They were called home children and came from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland as a result of the industrial revolution when so many families were destitute and flooded into the cities for work. Many of these children were orphans, and some were illegitimate. Canadians often looked down on them and thought they were a bad influence. Today more than 100,000 Canadians are descended from the original home children and many of the children and their families have become very successful. There are several good books on the subject now including Ken Bagnell’s classic The Little Immigrants, Quarrier’s Story, about a Scottish sending agency, The Golden Bridge a comprehensive history of the movement and Nation Builders: Barnardo Children in Canada. The Institute for Research & Innovation in Social Services in Glasgow has a great new website called The Golden Bridge that tells the story with testimonials, video and other information if you want to learn more or if you want help in finding out if you have a home child in your family.
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i am very interested in the storys of the children sent to canada to work on farms my family where taken in to care in 1939 and sent out to the farms in highlands scotland and were never returned my brother was only 6 months and i did not meet up till we were adults i did not know i had more siblings is there a record of these children in the uk?