1. The Barnardo Boys
   Thousands of British 'Home Children' were shipped to Canada as child labourers in a plot right out of Dickens
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Between 1868 and the 1930s, more than 100,000 destitute children in Great Britain were shipped off to Canada. An estimated two-thirds of the Home Children, as they were known, were under the age 14.
2. The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN)
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
3. Covenant House
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
4. Exploring Your Neighbourhood
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1984
   A guide for children to learn more about their neighbourhoods.
5. Home Children
   Wikipedia article
   Resource Type: Article
   Home Children was the child migration scheme founded by Annie MacPherson in 1869, under which more than 100,000 children were sent from the United Kingdom to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa.
6. Laying the Children's Ghosts to Rest
   Canada's Home Children in the West
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2014
   Between 1869 and the early 1930s more than 100,000 children were rounded up from the streets of Britain to be used as labourers in Canadian homes; often little more than slaves. Today there are two million or more descendants of what were derisively known in Canada as 'home children'. Writer and journalist Sean Arthur Joyce was shocked to learn in middle age that he was one of those descendants.
7. New Internationalist
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.

Experts on Street Children in the Sources Directory

1. United Nations