Golden Bridge: Young Immigrants to Canada, 1833-1939

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CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 11
FOREWORD......Page 13
PREFACE......Page 16
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT......Page 19
CHAPTER 1 Conditions in the United Kingdom Which Led to Emigration......Page 20
CHAPTER 2 Canada: Promise of a New Beginning......Page 31
Doyle Report and the Canadian Reaction......Page 40
As Time Progresses......Page 47
CHAPTER 3 The Voyage Over......Page 56
The Allan Line......Page 63
Other Lines......Page 72
The Trip Inland......Page 76
CHAPTER 4 The Work Begins......Page 81
Children's Friend Society......Page 82
The Lull......Page 88
Maria Susan Rye......Page 90
Annie Macpherson......Page 105
CHAPTER 5 The Work Grows: Major Agencies......Page 124
Ellen Agnes Bilbrough and Robert Wallace......Page 131
Louisa Birt and the Liverpool Sheltering Home......Page 138
John T. Middlemore......Page 150
Dr. Thomas Bowman Stephenson – The National Children's Home......Page 156
Thomas John Barnardo and the Barnardo Home......Page 162
Church of England Waifs and Strays Society/Church of England Children's Society/Church of England Emigration Society......Page 175
The Church Army......Page 182
James William Condell Fegan......Page 183
William Quarrier......Page 187
CHAPTER 6 Latecomers and Smaller Organizations......Page 197
Mrs. Blaikie......Page 209
Bristol Emigration Society......Page 210
Mrs. Ellinor Close......Page 213
George Carter Cossar......Page 216
Dakeyne Boys' Farm......Page 218
Shaftesbury Homes Children's Aid Society of London......Page 220
East End Emigration Society/British Dominion Emigration Society/Self-Help Emigration Society/Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (SPCK)/Church Emigration Society/Tower Hamlets Mission......Page 222
Fairbridge Society......Page 225
Gordon Boys' Home......Page 226
W.J. Pady......Page 227
Salvation Army......Page 228
Leonard K. Shaw and the Manchester and Salford Homes......Page 232
Smyly Homes......Page 234
Miss Emma Stirling and the Edinburgh and Leith Children's Aid and Refuge Society......Page 241
Mrs. Janet Wallis and Hurst House Training Home......Page 245
Charles E. Baring Young......Page 246
British Oversea Settlement/Empire Settlement Act......Page 247
Agencies of Which Little is Known......Page 252
Stop 69: The Armenian Relief Fund United Church Overseas League......Page 254
Russian Children......Page 256
London (Westminster and Southwark Dioceses)......Page 257
Liverpool......Page 262
Manchester/Salford......Page 264
Liverpool: Father Nugent and the Catholic Children's Protection Society (CCPS)......Page 265
Westminster: Cardinal Manning and Father Seddon......Page 268
Southwark: Father St. John and Reverend Lord Archibald Douglas......Page 270
Salford......Page 272
The Work Comes Together......Page 273
CHAPTER 8 Poor Law Participation in Emigration......Page 284
Poor Law Child Emigrants......Page 286
Leeds Board of Guardians......Page 296
"Poor Union Girls"......Page 298
CHAPTER 9 Reformatories, Industrial Schools and Ragged Schools......Page 310
Reformatories......Page 317
Industrial Schools......Page 319
Ragged Schools......Page 321
The Institutions......Page 324
CHAPTER 10 Female Immigration......Page 326
British Ladies' Female Emigration Society......Page 334
Columbia Emigration Society: Bride Ships......Page 335
Female Middle-Class Emigration Society......Page 337
Vere Henry Louis Foster......Page 343
Girls' Friendly Society......Page 352
Catholic Emigration Society/Ste. Anne's Emigration Society......Page 357
Girls' Home of Welcome......Page 359
United Englishwomen's Emigration Association/British Women's Emigration Association (BWEA)/United Women's British Emigration Society [Association] (UBWES)/United British Women's Emigration Association......Page 360
Women's Protective Immigration Society......Page 364
Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants (MABYS)......Page 366
James Hack Tuke......Page 367
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)......Page 370
Salvation Army......Page 371
Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women (SOSBW)......Page 373
Madame von Koerber's Female Emigrants......Page 375
Form of Indenture......Page 378
Form of Adoption......Page 379
Smyly Home Form......Page 380
APPENDIX B: Father Seddon's Last Party of Children......Page 381
APPENDIX C: Limerick Union Party of 1865......Page 383
APPENDIX D: A Fegan Boy's Story......Page 386
APPENDIX E: Text of a 1903 Barnardo Advertisement......Page 393
APPENDIX F: Smyly Home Boys Who Enlisted from Canada October 8,1915......Page 394
APPENDIX G: Number of Children Immigrated Recorded......Page 395
APPENDIX H: Circular of 1895 Sent to Agencies Involved with Immigrant Children......Page 396
APPENDIX I: List of Institutions: Reformatories, Farm Schools, Industrial Schools, Ragged Schools......Page 398
APPENDIX J: Home Children Canada......Page 415
NOTES......Page 417
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 449
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 481