09 September 2019
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British Home Children 150th anniversary
The UK and Canada are to remember the children of the British Home Children in a series of linked events to mark the 150th anniversary of the scheme that saw children torn from their UK families and used as indentured labour in Canada.
The UK and Canada are to remember the children of the British Home Children in a series of linked events to mark the 150th anniversary of the scheme that saw children torn from their UK families and used as indentured labour in Canada.
Beacons of light will be lit across Canada on 28 September, British Home Child Day. Canada’s British Home Children Advocacy and Research Association (BHCARA) has asked communities in Canada and the UK to take part in the Beacons of Lights for British Home Children and Child Migrants Sesquicentennial Tribute by illuminating memorials, monuments, buildings and other locations with the colours of the BHCARA on 28 September.
Many Canadian cities and sites are participating, from Niagara Falls to Toronto’s CN Tower, and there will be a Northern Lights Display in Vancouver and St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh, headquarters of the Scottish Government.
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