The speaker at our February 24th programme was Sandra Joyce who is an author and the Director-at-large for the British Home Child Group International. Up to 120,000 British children were sent to Canada from 1869 to 1939 to work as indentured farm workers and domestics. She related stories about their placement across Canada with some of them suffering horrifically and some doing well. Quite a few society members in attendance were descendants of a home child and about 1 in 10 Canadians is a descendant of a home child.
The Scarborough Historical Society hosts programmes on the 4th Tuesday of each month from January to April and from September to November. All programmes begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Bendale Public Library and are free and open to the public.