CAST 1103H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thomas John Barnardo, Home Children
14 Jun 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
REVIEW
Treaty of Ghent - Great Britain and the US consider the treaty and achievement Military
stalemate. Britain gave up any dreams of retaking the territories.
Canada owes its present shape to the treaty, gave Canadians a sense of community.
Americans felt the war was a failure, A simple operation or 'Marching'
The conflict arose between people to familiar to each other, familial ties
The indigenous people lose out the most, all their hopes were pinned on winning their own
nation with Canada, the British abandoned them
KEY TERMS
• Home children - Children were care for by another family. A new home
o between 1869 and 1940's over 100k children were sent to Canada from the British
Isles
o Flyers were sent out in Canada to announce that new shipments of
children. Farmers would come around to view the children. They became
indentured workers
o children were often returned to the homes for being small, to slow, to unruly.
• Dr. Barnardo
o Thomas John Barnardo - Irish-born entrepreneur and philanthropist
o Was doing this from a place of good and wished to help all the homeless children
o 30k children were sent to Canada, aged 8 - 16
o Peterborough, Toronto, Belleville, Manitoba, Niagara on the lake.
• Global migration
• children
o Abused by guardians in the workhouses
o Spare the rod, spoil the child.
• childhood - a concept or social construct. Consider to be separate from
adulthood. Children were not deeply cared for by the Europeans, they were considered
burdens and later valued for their child labour.
o Valued for their input to the family wealth, they were viewed and treated as
economic assets.
o In Canada, many jobs were 'dead-end' jobs, poorly paid and menial.
• Robert Chambers - Police magistrate
o envisioned sending THE EXTRA British children to farms as early as 1826
o Believed that children had little opportunity to improve their life
• Industrial Revolution - profound effect on the working-class
o adult workers worked 6 days a week 10-14 hour a day, causing a permanent
disruption
o little protection in the workplace
o workers were abandoned once the accident occur and would receive no aid for the
injury
• Child Labour - Employment of children under 15 to 16. children should attribute to
family wealth, either paid or unpaid.
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