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5. Genealogical methods
6. Internet Research
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ORPHAN
TRAIN BIBLIOGRAPHIES
from
"Orphan
Trains of Kansas" is contributed by
Connie
DiPasquale.
And
From
CROSSROADS
by
Mary
Ellen Johnson
BOOKS
(List
is incomplete)
OTHSA
Staff, Orphan Train Riders Basic Information Booklet, 20 pages,
Springdale, Ar., OTHSA,
The
life of Andrew Burke [An Orphan Train Rider that went on to become governor of
North Dakota]
Abbott,
Edith, Immigration; Select Documents and Case Records, New York: Ayers
Company, 1969.
Beard,
Lois Roper, The History of Laclede County, Tulsa, OK.: The Heritage
Publishing Co., 1979.
Brace,
Charles Loring, Home Life In Germany, 1856.
Brace,
Emma, ed., The Life of Charles Loring Brace, New York: Ayers Company,
1976.
Brace,
Charles Loring, The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years Work
Among Them, Montclair, NJ.: reprint, Patterson Smith, 1967.
Bracken,
Jeanne Munn, The Orphan Trains: Leaving the Cities Behind Carlisle,
Mass.: Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., 1997.[available in OTHSA store]
Brophy,
A. Blake, Foundlings On The Frontier, University of Arizona,
1972.Carlisle, Robert, ed., Account of Bellevue Hospital, New York:
reprint, Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, 1986,
Buchanan,
Jane, Gratefully Yours, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997, ISBN:0-374-32775-0,Middle
grade novel set in Nebraska in 1923,Paperback: from Puffin,
ISBN:0-14-130315-8, 1999
Bunting,
Eve, Train To Somewhere, Farrar, illustrated by Ronald Himler,
ISBN:0-395-71325-0,Fiction,Hard Cover and Paperback[available from OTHSA
Store]
Culligan,
Joseph, You, Too, Can Find Anybody [available in OTHSA Store]
Fifty
Years of Charity, Golden Jubilee
Booklet.
deVries,
David, Home At Last, A Dell Yearling Book, May 1992.
Fry,
Annette, Orphan Trains, (96 pages)
Gordon,
Linda, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, Non-Fiction, Harvard
University Press [ISBN 0-674-36041-9] (416 pages), 1999 [available in OTHSA
Store]
Gripon-Waldron,
Patricia, Maggie Brown, Orphan Train Rider, Brigham Young University
Press (100 pages),[available OTHSA Store]
Grooman,
Barbara Heise, Train To Red Cloud, Fiction, Writers Book Club[ISBN
1-893652-26-2] (62 pages), 1999
Hansen,
Marcas Lee, The Atlantic Migration 1607-1860: A History of the Continuing
Settlement of the United States, New York: Harper and Row, 1962.
Harms,
Madonna, How & Where To obtain biological and
genealogical information about Orphan Train Riders. Contains addresses, names,
and census record help. There are 20 chapters to assist anyone with their quest
for documenting their rider.
Hayes,
Woodward, and Braly, Washington County History Book
Hirshon,
Roberta Star, The History of the New England Home For Little Wanderers
Hodge,
Robert A., Kansas Orphan Train Riders, These We Know (self-published
index of newspaper articles of Orphan Train Arrivals in Kansas), Compiled for
the 4th Annual Reunion of Kansas Orphan Train Reunion Group, Great Bend, KS,
May 3and4,1996.
Holland,
Isabelle, Journey Home, paperback fiction for grades 6 and up.[available
in OTHSA store]
Holloran,
Peter C., Boston's Wayward Children: Social Services For Homeless Children,
1830-1930, Cranbury, NJ., Farleigh Dickinson University Press,
1989.[available in OTHSA Store]
Holt,
Marilyn Irvin, The Orphan Trains: Placing Out In America, Lincoln, Ne.,
University of Nebraska Press, 1992, Homes of the Homeless Children, 1903,
pg. 239 [available in OTHSA Store]
Inskeep,
Carolee, Children's Aid Census Index (1855-1925)
Inskeep,
Carolee, New York Foundling Hospital Index (1870-1925)
Jacoby,
Rev. G.P., Catholic Child Care in the Nineteenth Century.
Johnson,
Mary Ellen, Benton County History Book
Johnston,
Carole, Trains West [available in OTHSA store]
Kadushin,
Alfred, Child Welfare Services, New York: The MacMillan Company.
Kerr,
Rita, Texas Orphans, (fiction, based on facts), 1995
Kidder,
Clark, Orphan Trains & Their Precious Cargo [based on the notes and
journals of CAS agent H.D. Clarke]Heritage Books, Inc.,2001
Kittson,
Ruthena Hill, Orphan Voyage, 1965
Kokomo
Dispatch, New Plains Review
Kozol,
Jonathan, Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, New
York: Crown Publishers, 1988
Langsam,
Mirian Z., Children West: A History of the Placing-Out System of the New
York Children's Aid Society 1953-1890, Madison: State Historical Society of
Wisconsin, 1964
Liebl,
Janet, Ties That Bind: The Orphan Train Story in Minnesota, c 1994
Magnuson,
James and Petrie, Dorothea, Orphan Train: A Novel, New York: Dover, 1978
Mandler,
Peter (Editor), The Uses of Charity
Marks
and Young, Tears On Paper
McCausland,
Clare L., Children of Circumstance
Milne
Jr., Russell J., Orphan Boy [ISBN: 0-7596-8779-X] Print on demand
at 1rstbooks.com, 2002
Niles,
Reg, Adoption Agencies, Orphanages, and Maternity Homes
Nixon,
Joan Lowery, Orphan Train Quintet (fiction)
1. A Family Apart [available OTHSA store]
2. Caught In The Act [available OTHSA
store]
3. In The Face of Danger [available OTHSA
store]
4. A Place to Belong [available OTHSA
store]
5. A Dangerous Promise [available OTHSA
store]
5. Keeping Secrets [available OTHSA store]
5. Circle of Love [available OTHSA store]
O.T.H.S.A.,
Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories, Vols. I-V, Baltimore, MD.,
Gateway Press, Inc., 1992 [Volumes IV and V available in OTHSA's store]
O'Grady,
Catholic Charities
Patrick
Michael; Sheets, Evelyn; Trickel, Evelyn, We Are A Part Of History: The Story
Of The Orphan Trains, Virginia Beach, VA., The Donning Co. Pub., 1990
Patrick
Michael; Trickel, Evelyn, Orphan Trains to Missouri Columbia &
London, University of Missouri Press, 1997 [available in OTHSA Store]
Peart,
Jane, Orphan Train Quartet (fiction)
1. Dreams Of A Longing Heart [available
OTHSA store]
2. Quest For Lasting Love [available OTHSA
store]
3. Homeward The Seeking Heart [available
OTHSA store]
4. The Heart's Lonely Secret [available
OTHSA store]
Peavy,
Linda and Smith, Ursula, Frontier Children , University of Oklahoma
Press, $24.95
Petrie,
Dorothea and James Magnuson, Orphan Train (fiction)
Pickett,
Robert S. House of Refuge, (Juvenile Reform 1815-1857)
Riis,
Jacob A, How The Other Half Lives, 1890, pgs. 134-158
Riis,
Jacob A., Children Of The Tenements, 1904, pgs. 53-62
Snow,
Perry, Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search For A Stolen Identity, [ISBN #1-58112-758-8]
[Soft Cover] [available from OTHSA Store]
Starrs,
Eliza Ellen, Reminiscences of Sister Irene
Thurston,
Dependent Child
Vogt,
Martha Nelson and Vogt, Christina, Searching For Home: Three Families From
Orphan Trains, (Grand Rapids, MI. .Triumph Press, 1979
VonHartz,
John, New York Street Kids, New York. Dover, 1978
Walters,
Ronald G., American Reformers, 1815-1860
Warren,
Andrea, We Rode the Orphan Trains Hard Cover
Warren,
Andrea, Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, Houghton [available in
OTHSA Store]
Miffllin
Co., Boston, 1996 [winner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in
Children’s Literature—Non-Fiction]
Young,
Patricia and Marks, Frances, Tears on Paper
(List
is incomplete)
America,
1917, "A Heroine of
Charity" (by: Rev, P, Blakely)
American
Heritage, Dec. 1974, pg. 4, "The
Children's Migration" (by-, Annette Riley Fry)
American
History Illustrated, Dec. 1983, pg
10, "The Orphan Trains" (by: Leslie Wheeler)
Catholic
World, Vol. 17, 1983, "Public
Charities"
CGA
World, Nov, - Dec. 1984, pgs, 28-30,
"Passage of Promise" (by Eve Homan) Charities Review II, The,
Feb. 1893
CobbleStone,
Volume 19 No. 4, "Orphan Trains:
Traveling West to a New Life",Cobblestone Publishing Company, April 1998
Crossroads, (Orphan Train Heritage Society of American,
Springdale, AR.), all issues
Delineator,,
The, Oct, 1907, pgs. 505-5 1 0,
"The Child Without A Home", (by: Mabel Potter Daggett)
First,
1991, pgs. 42-43, "Dressed In
Brand New Clothes, Holding My Only doll, I Boarded The Orphan 'Train"
Genealogical
Helper, The, Missing Folk Finder,
May-June 1987, pg. 122-123,
"
1912 Orphan Train Child" (by: Frances E. Marks)
Genealogical
Helper, The, Nov.-Dec. 1981, pg. 7-9,
Heritage
Quest Sept.-Oct. 1990, pg,___ "Waifs, Orphans and
Foundlings" (by: M.E. Johnson)
Humanist,
The, May-June 1989, pg, 7-15,
"Homelessness in America" (by: Charles King)
Kansas
City Genealogist, Spring 1981, pg,
184, "Orphan Register" (by: Eloise Thomsen)
Kansas
History, Summer 198 5, vol. 8, No. 2,
pgs. 110- 123, "A New York Orphan Comes To Kansas", (by: Harry
Colwell)
Louisiana
Life, May-June 1985, pgs, 58-62,
"Sentimental Journey: Children of the Orphan Trains" (by: Rachel
Lemonine)
National
Geographic, Jan, 1988, pg. 30
New
Orleans Med. and Surg. Journal, June
1913
New
Plains Review, Volume II No. 2, pgs.
104-117, "Indeutured Labor or Salvation:The Odyssey of 150,000
Children" (by J'Nevlyne Schrock)
New
Plains Review, Volume II No. 4, pgs.
69-72, "Reflection on the Orphan Train Riders" (by J'Nevlyne Schrock)
New
Plains Review, Volume II No. 4, pgs.
73-79, "Interview with Alice Ayler, Orphan Train Survivor" (by Tami
L. Watson)
Ozarks
Mountaineer (Missouri), Jan. -Feb, 1987,
pg, 42-43.
People’s
Home Journal, Feb. 1914, pgs. _, "Mining For Gold In Human
Hearts", (by: Haryot Holt Dey)
Persimmon
Hill, The, Spring 1999, pgs. 57-62,
" The Orphan Train:Westward for the want of a home" (by Carolyn D.
Wall)
Plain
Truth, The, April 1984, pgs. 31-32,
43, "I Was On The Orphan Train" (by Henrietta Wiens)
Saturday
Evening Post, Dec. 18, 1948, pg. 33, "Not Wanted" (by: Josef
Israels 11)
Smithsonian,
Aug. 1986, pg. 95-102, "It Took
Trains to Put Street Kids On The Right Track Out Of The Slums" (by: Donald
Dale Jackson)
Topeka Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 20, #4, pg. 120, "Orphan Train Information
Being Gathered"
Topeka
Genealogical Society Quarterly,, vol.
20, #3, Pg. 89, "Orphan Trains". Women's World, 7/15/1986, pg.
. "The Orphan Trains" (by: Michael Wolfert)
Yesteryears,
(Jefferson County Kansas Historical
Society), Oct. 1981, "Jefferson County's Orphan Train Children-. 1911
" (by: Donna Ward)
Yesteryears,
(Jefferson County Kansas Historical
Society ), 1981, pg.___
"Correction:
Jefferson County Orphan Train Children: 1911, Yesteryears, Oct. 1981 "
(List
is incomplete)
Riders
on the Orphan Train, by Fine Line Performances
[available in OTHSA store]
(List
is incomplete)
End
Of The Line, non-fiction, (Michael
Patric, Evelyn Sheets and Evelyn Trickel, creative consultants), Video St.
Louis: Heritage Account, Inc., 1989.
Orphan
Train, fiction, (starring Jill Eikenberry,
Glenn Close, and Kevin Dobson), Parade Video, distributed by P.P,I., 88 St.
Francis Street, Newark, NJ, 1988.[available in OTHSA store]
Sunflower
Journeys, non-fiction, (KTWU, Channel
11, Topeka, KS.) episode 609, "Family and Home".
The
Orphan Train, News Feature, (KFOR-TV,
Channel 4, Oklahoma City, Ok.), Linda Cavanaugh, producer/reporter; Tony
Stizza, photographer, Randy Williams, Director, Received Western Heritage
Award, 3/1994
You,
Too, Can Find Anybody by Joseph Culligan
[available in OTHSA store]
Orphan
Trains, documentary, (produced for
The American Experience on PBS by Janet Graham and Edward Gray), major funding
for this program provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Aired
in the Fall of 1995. [available in OTHSA store]
(List
is incomplete)
Abilene
Reflector-(Chronicle, (KS) May 4,
1995, pg, 1, "Orphan Train Riders To Have Reunion".
Abilene
Reflector-Chronicle, (KS) May 6,
1995, pg. 1, "Orphan Train Riders Recount Early Days".
Benton
Co. Daily Demo., (AR) Dec. 20, 1987,
pg. 7A.
Charleston
Express, (AR) Feb. 4, 1988,
"Orphan Train Rider......
Coffey
Co. Today, (KS) Jan. 20, 1988.
Cottonport
Leader, (LA) Sept. 20, 195 7.
Daily
News, (Galveston TX) Feb. 28, 1988.
DePage
Progress, (IL) Oct. 16, 1980, pg. 2A,
Hays
Daily News, (KS) Jan. 7, 1988, pg. 1,
"The Orphan Train".
Hutchinson
News, (KS) Dec. 23, 1979.
Hutchinson
News,(KS) Nov. 11, 1979,
"McPherson's Anna Fuchs Remembers " .
Jefferson
County Tribune, (KS) Jan. 13, 191 1,
"Fourteen little folks from the orphanages......
Jefferson
County Tribune,(KS) Jan. 20, 191 1,
"Children Find Homes".
Kanhistique,
(KS) Jan, 1990, pgs. 13-14,
"Orphan Train Stopped In St. Mary’s". Kansas City Star, Oct.
16, 1986, pg, 1C.
Lawrence
Journal-World, (KS) Apr. 21, 1993,
pg. "Riders Of Orphan Trains' Set Reunion".
Lawrence
.Journal-World, (KS) Nov. _, 1993,
pg. "Orphan Train Tales Woven",
Lawrence
.Journal-World,(KS) Dec. 18, 1992,
pg, 1C, "Placing Out Orphan Train
Book
Draws Personal Responses".
Lawrence
.Journal-World,(KS) Mar. 27, 1988,
pg. 1C, "Orphan Train Riders".
Leslie’s
Illustrated Newspaper, Nov. 8, 1873,
"Foundlings in......
Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal, (TX) Oct. 27,
1990, pg, B5, "Orphan Train Riders Invited To Reunion".
Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal, (TX) May 25, 1994,
"Orphan Train Rider Values Love, Friends".
New
York Herald, Aug. 17, 1986 (death of
Sister Irene).
New
York Times, Aug. 15, 1896.
New
York Daily Times, Jan. 23, 1852, pg.
4.
New
York World, Aug. 17, 1896.
New
York Daily Tribune, Apr. 20, 1850,
pg. 3.
New
York Daily Tribune, May 2, 1850, pg.
3.
Newsday,
June 22, 1983, part 11, 4-5,
"When Orphans Went West For A Home" (by: George DeWan).
Oskaloosa
Independent, (KS) Dec, 9, 1910(?) pg.
8, New York Waifs in Jefferson County".
Oskaloosa
Independent,(KS) Jan. 13, 19 IO(?),
pg. 5, single paragraph, no title.
Oskaloosa
Independent,(KS) Apr. 22, 191 0, pg.
7, "What Happens To Unwelcome Babies".
Oskaloosa
Independent,(KS) Jan. 20,191 1,
"The New York Orphans All Find Homes".
Pantograph,
(Bloomington, IL.) May 8, 1988,
"Homeless Children......
Scholastic
Scope, Jan. 22, 1988, Vol. 36, No.
12.
Springdale
News, (AR), Jan. 4, 1987, pg. 3A.
St.
Joseph Gazette, (MO) Feb.
6,1987, "Young At Heart"
St.
Louis Dispatch, (MO) Aug. 6, 1985,
pg, 5A.
St.
Marys Star, (KS) Jan. 26, 1988,
"An Orphan Train Stopped
Sunday
Champion, Jan. 22, 1937, "Sister
Irene" (by: Marion Brunowe),
Time-Picayune,
(LA) Oct. 19,1975.
Topeka
Capital-Journal, (KS) Sept. 27, 1992,
pg._, "A Century Ago, Orphans and Misfits, Were ... Railroaded Into An
Uncertain Future".
Topeka
Capital-Journal,(KS) Feb. 5, 1993,
pg, __, "They Came Here As
Youngsters
On The Orphan Train".
Topeka
Capital-Journal, (KS) Feb. 25, 1988,
pg. 8F, "Recording Story Of Orphan Trains".
Topeka
Capital-Journal,(KS) __, pg. ___,
"Group Searching For 'Orphan Train' Riders".
Topeka
Capital-Journal, (KS) May 7, 1995,
pg. 1, "Riders Of Orphan Train Unite".
Topeka
Capital-Journal, (KS) Apr. 13, 1993,
pg. 1A, "Orphans' Recall Train Ride West".
Topeka
Capital-Journal, (KS) Jan. 10, 1988,
"Topekan Remembers Orphan Trains".
Topeka
Capital-Journal, (KS) May 18, 1988,
"From Time to Time".
Topeka
Capital-Journal, (KS) July 14, 1994,
Northern Life supplement, pg. 1, "Woman Seeks Out Grandmother's
Past".
Tulsa
Tribune, (OK) March 30, 1988, Sec. B,
"Tracking Memories".
Tulsa
World, (OK) Jan. 16, 1988, Sec. A,
pg. 10.
Wall
Street Journal, Aug. 5, 1992, pg. _,
"How Tots Helped Win The West".
Wichita
Eagle-Beacon, (KS) _, 1988, pg. __,
"Can You Share Data About Children Who Rode Orphan Train?".
Wichita
Eagle-Beacon, (KS) Dec. 19, 1979,
"Mary Ratley Recalls Trip
Wichita
Eagle-Beacon, (KS) Dec. 15, 1979,
"Kansas Was Just One Stop".
Wichita
Eagle-Beacon,(KS) Dec. 22, 1979,
"Orphan Train: Story
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Children's Aid Society of New York
City
LDS Family Research Site [Salt Lake City]
Happy Valley School located in Pomona, NY. by
Thomas Riley
WISCONSIN ORPHAN TRAIN WEBSITE
The Orphan Train by Pat Waldron
Page County, Ia. Nodaway Valley
Museum Website
The Sad Orphan Site...contains
record sources and links.
Canada's
Invisible Immigrants...by Perry Snow
British
Parliament proceedings: The migration of children to former colonies.
GLOBAL
(List
is incomplete)
America
was not the only one to move its children…England and Canada also had their
equivalent to the orphan train.Search the web under "Home
Children" "Banardo Children" "Orphan Emigrants"
"Orphan Trains" "Orphan Boats" "Baby Trains"
"Home Children Canada"
GLOBAL
BARNARDO,
Gillian Wagner, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1979
BANARDO
CHILDREN IN CANADA -by Gail H.
Corbett. Author unmasks the greatest human interest story in Canadian History--
the pilgrimage of thousands of dependent children. The book sensitively and
accurately records the largest and most successful child emigration into the
emerging nation. The author records first hand accounts of child emigration,
archival materials never before released, directions for genealogical research
and more. 133pgs/appendix and bibliography/softcover.CAT #220-001,
Peterborough, Woodland Pub. 1981 (available from the author, 256 Woodward Ave,
Peterborough K9L 1J7, Tel: 705-745-2874)
BLACK
BOOTS AND SHORT TROUSERS, Life at Fegan's in the 1940's, Syd Sharp, (ISBN
0-9525281-0-X)
CELTIC
ODYSSEY, Bill Price's autobiography of a Barnardo Boy in the Ottawa Valley,
William R. Price, Dorrance & Co., Philadelphia, 1970, [Out of Print]
CHILD
APPRENTICES in America From Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778. By Peter W.
Coldham.
CHILDREN
OF THE EMPIRE, Gillian Wagner, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1982
Christ’s
Hospital, (not a hospital in the contemporary sense) was established in 1553
for the benefit of orphaned children or those made homeless by impecunious
parents. If they were legitimate children of free men of the City of London,
over four years of age and free from obvious infirmity, they were to be
educated and prepared either for entrance to a university or apprenticeship to
a trade. From the late 17th century, up to 150 children were admitted annually
to "Bluecoat School" on recommendation of their parishes, and a
further ninety or so under the terms of charitable endowments. But as early as
1617 large numbers of these scholars took "articles" and left England
to serve apprenticeships in America. Beginning with those children apprenticed
to the Virginia Company in 1617, about 1,000 Christ’s Hospital students left
England to take up such apprenticeships. The "Children's Registers"
are housed in the manuscript department of the London Guildhall, and it is from
these that Mr. Coldham has extracted data on child emigrants. The entries are
in chronological order and in a slightly abbreviated form. Given are the name
of the child, his date of birth or baptism, date of admission, native parish,
the name and occupation of his father, date of discharge, the name of the
person to whom he was apprenticed, and the place in America where he was to
serve his apprenticeship. This is the first time all of this information has
been made available to the genealogist. 164 pp., indexed. Balto., 1990.CAT
#218-1114
EMPTY
CRADLES - One Woman's fight to
uncover Britain's Shameful Secret, Margaret Humphreys.
EUGENICS
& CHANGING IDEAS ABOUT CHILDREN:The
following are but two books that give background information that is important
in understanding the Home Child story.
OUR
OWN MASTER RACE, EUGENICS IN CANADA,
1885-1945, Angus McLaren, McClelland and Stewart Inc., Toronto, 1990
CHILDREN
IN ENGLISH-CANADIAN SOCIETY, Neil
Sutherland, U of T Press, 1976 & 1978 (ISBN 0-8020 & 0-6345-4 pa)
FOR
THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN (Inside
Barnardos), June Rose, Futura, London, 1989 (ISBN 0-7088-4245-3)
One of
the newest books available on the "Home Children" the author
gives an alternate view of the "good deeds" of the Banardo Homes. She
offers the opinion that the children were often deported illegally and given
false information on families and siblings, the families themselves often told
lies about the children themselves. The Author also contends that the children
were not always treated well and suffered horrendous abuse by host families.
333pgs/index/hardcover/pub
1996 CAT #222003
333pgs/index/softcover/pub
1996 CAT #222003 S
HOME
CHILD,Barbara Haworth-Attard, (a
fictional account for your readers) ISBN 1-800184-18-0
In
SEARCH OF YOUR ROOTS (Canadian) and IN
SEARCH OF YOUR BRITISH AND IRISH ROOTS, by Angus Baxter are invaluable aids
in genalogical research. Try Inter-Library Loan.
LABOURING
CHILDREN - British Immigrant
Apprentices to Canada 1869-1924 -by Joy Parr. Between 1868 and 1924, 80,000
British Children, most of them under 14, came to Canada to be apprenticed as
labourers and domestic servants. The Authors study of these children, first
published in 1980 became a significant resource for family immigration and
labour history. Out of Print for several years, this book is now published with
a substantial new introduction. 224 pgs/6" x 9"/extensive
notes/paperback, London, Croom Helm, pub 1980,reprinted 1994. CAT #203-044
LOST
CHILDREN OF THE EMPIRE, Philip Bean,
London, Unwin-Hyman, 1989
THE
HOME CHILDREN: BRITISH JUVENILE IMMIGRATION TO CANADA 1868-1924, Joy Parr, Ann Harbor: London University Microfilms,
1982: Thesis, Ph.D. Yale 1977
THE
HOME CHILDREN -by Phyllis Harrison.
More than 100,000 British children came to Canada to be indentured to farmers
between 1869 and 1939. In their own words, some of the survivors recall the
circumstances that separated them from their families and the reality of
loneliness, hard work and discrimination in a vast new country. Phyllis
Harrison is a former social worker and journalist. Her book documents a major,
but little known event in Canadian History., 272 PGS/40 black and white
photos/index/6"x9" Winnipeg, Watson and Dwyer 1979, Paperback. CAT
#203-050P
THE
LITTLE IMMGRANTS -Kenneth Bagnell ,
Between 1870 and the Depression, more than 80,000 impoverished children from
the British Isles journeyed to Canada. Known as the "home children"
they were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the farm
labour shortage. Here is a heart rending story of youngsters to many of whom a
new life in Canada meant only hardship and abuse. 270 pgs/index and
bibliography/paperback. Toronto, Macmillan, 1980, CAT #213-010
THE
SCHEME, Barry Coldrey, (of interest
only to those whose RC siblings were sent to Australia because it lists all
their names), ISBN 1-86307-027-3
THE
VILLAGE, History of Quarrier's, Anna
Magnusson, Bridge of Weir (of interest to Scottish Home Children
"Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search
for a Stolen Identity", Perry
Snow, Universal Publishers, ISBN: 1-58112-758-8,
http://www.upublish.com/books/snow.htm