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'It's like they never existed': Toronto monument will honour mistreated British Home Children

Gollom, Mark
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/british-home-children-farms-abuse-1.4314384

Publisher:  CBC News
Date Written:  01/10/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Over eight decades 115,000 children in Britain living in squalid conditions were sent to Canada for a better life, only to be exploited as workers by foster families and often suffering deplorable abuse.

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Excerpt: Oschefski, who has spent years researching and tracking down the identities of the children, said many were housed in deplorable conditions and abused.

Arthur Clarkson, for example, who arrived in 1907 at the age of 12, was kept in a cold attic with no glass in the windows at a Tillsonburg, Ont., farm. Snow got into his room and ended up on his feet, causing them to swell, Oschefski said.

Clarkson couldn't fit into his boots, so he was forced to work outside in his bare feet. When he was unable to work, the farmer whipped him, she said. While an inspector eventually removed him from those conditions, his feet were permanently deformed.

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