L&A Museum exhibit shines light on Canada’s British Home Children

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L&A Museum exhibit shines light on Canada’s British Home Children

Sarah Williams Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The practice of bringing impoverished children from Britain to work in homes and farms across Canada died out close to 80 years ago and their legacy has often been overlooked. Now, an exhibit at the Museum of Lennox and Addington is helping to bring this period of Canadian history to light. Between the late 1860s and 1948, over 100,000 children were sent from Britain to Canada as indentured far…