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Involuntary Immigrants

Involuntary Immigrants Recent books reveal new angles to the Home Children story. SUANNE KELMAN Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 Roy Parker University of British Columbia Press 384 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780774815406

Searching for Billie Freda Jackson Touchwood Editions 288 pages, softcover ISBN 9781894898539

School teachers struggling to make Canadian history appealing to the young must sometimes envy their American and Australian counterparts, at least for the relative glamour of their stories of early European settlement. Courageous and greedy fur traders, never mind land-hungry habitants and pioneers, cannot really compete with the Pilgrims' quest for ...

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