Children & the Poorhouse

 

Mary Elizabeth Taylor and Sarah Jane Taylor (1901). The sisters did not stay in the House but their story of poverty, abuse and separation is similar to children at the House. Source: British Home Children Advocacy & Research Association and Barnardo Archives

Mary Elizabeth Taylor and Sarah Jane Taylor (1901). The sisters did not stay in the House but their story of poverty, abuse and separation is similar to children at the House. Source: British Home Children Advocacy & Research Association and Barnardo Archives. Click here to learn more about their story.

Links

British Home Child Advocacy & Research Association

Early history of the humane and children’s aid movement in Ontario, 1886-1893. By JJ Kelso

Report of the Toronto Humane Society … for the prevention of cruelty and the diffusion of a humane public sentiment.1888

Story of George Green

Forgotten, a new documentary about the Home Child Scheme

 

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