A party of girls about to start for Canada

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Description:A party of girls about to start for Canada from the "Emigartion Homes". John Middlemore was a rich benefactor in Birmingham who opened the Children’s Emigration (or Middlemore) Homes in 1872 as a charitable concern. They were called “Emigration Homes” as they took in children from the slums of Birmingham and sent them to what was considered to be a better life in rural Canada and later on, to Australia. A large number of the children were not orphans but had been taken away from their families due to poverty, neglect or sometimes cruelty. The Children were taken across to Canada in large groups and then distributed to families when they arrived.

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Orphans Childcare & Welfare 1920 - 1938 (Early 20th Century) 1901 - 1913 (Edwardian)

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Source: Balsall Heath Local History Society , Jim Fitzpatrick , Graham Partlett , Elizabeth McKeon , Diane Stead , Keith Whitehouse

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