Hi Betty: There was a movie made about this - recall seeing it. Yes, there was a big scandal with this and believe the people who ran this home were arrested and tried. Also, some babies were buried in butter boxes and no records of these were kept. This was more or less a black market baby outfit. Lauraine > > > From: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> > Date: 2009/09/09 Wed AM 06:50:43 CDT > To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [CAN-USA-MIG] "Butterbox Babies" in N.S. some went to NJ / US > > Hello, > > The subject of the "Butterbox Babies" in a "home" in Nova Scotia in the > 1920's has been brought up on the "British Home Children" List. I did a > search for the term and found a description of the actual "home" and events > on this site: > > http://www.canadiancrc.com/Butterbox_babies.aspx > > I haven't finished reading it, yet, but I did notice that the couple "sold" > some of the babies and some went to couples in NJ (US). > > Also, part of the discussion on the BHC List is about the teen-age girls who > were arriving in Canada "got pregnant" and how they were treated and dealt > with. > > www.rootsweb.com > Mailing List INDEX > > As part of the discussion, I mentioned that many teen-age girls - anywhere - > did not survive pregnancy and childbirth. I mentioned my KIDDER > gr-gr-grandfather who had an older brother who lived along the Maine / New > Brunswick border in the mid-1800's. He had 5 children with his first > wife, and then had a son with his 2nd wife. They were from Calais, Maine, > but the 1881 census had the family living on Deer Island, New Brunswick. > His teen-age daughter "got pregnant" and at Age 16 she "died in childbirth." > The baby survived and was probably raised by the birth-father's family. A > few months later, John had his 7th child, a little girl. So, during > 1881, John's daughter, Henrietta, died during childbirth, and he had his 7th > child, a little girl, named Henrietta. So, he had a daughter and a > granddaughter born within months of each other (on that island). > > Also, there is a whole lot of information on the above web site. On > quick look, the organization only deals with - children living in Canada > now. But, we sure wish they would at least mention the "British Home > Children" - or even the descendants of the "home children." > > http://www.canadiancrc.com/ > > http://www.britishhomechildren.org/ > > Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)

Hi Lauraine, It was just mentioned on another List that the same type of "home" or situation went on in other provinces at that same time. Some of the babies being sent to the U.S. from Canada were called "train babies." I'll go check to see which List this was mentioned on. (That reminds me of the "orphan trains" which haven't been discussed lately. That was a "scheme?" (project) to send all the "uncared-for children" out of New York City and Boston - out across the country. But the "Home Children, Canada" were also referred to as children on "orphan trains." That was because, once the children arrived in the "eastern ports," some of them were put on trains to go to either the Prov. of Quebec or the Prov. of Ontario.) And, I have heard from several people who were at that "home" in Nova Scotia. That was a reminder that babies born there could be adults living right now. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) ----- Original Message ----- From: <syrnick@mts.net> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] "Butterbox Babies" in N.S. some went to NJ / US > Hi Betty: > > There was a movie made about this - recall seeing it. Yes, there was a > big scandal with this > and believe the people who ran this home were arrested and tried. Also, > some babies were > buried in butter boxes and no records of these were kept. This was more > or less a black market > baby outfit. > > Lauraine >> > >