Hi Betty You are correct about these groups of children shipped to Canada. Their parents agreed to ship them to Canada to escape the blitz bombings in the UK and many were returned home after the war. Lauraine > > From: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> > Date: 2009/08/25 Tue AM 03:38:33 CDT > To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] SS Volendam - 1940 "British Children to Canada" > > Hi again, > > I made a typo last night. It was August 1940 that the ship was torpedoed > (but rescued). > > And, just a reminder that the "Child Migrant Scheme" was from 1860 to 1930's > ! Over 100,000 children were "shipped to Canada." So, the children > being shipped to Canada in the 1940's were because of World War II, and I > think it was with the permission of the parents. > > Betty > > P.S. I should come up with a new word -- a memor-o? Typing April > wasn't a typo; I had remembered wrong. :o) > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> > To: <BRITISHHOMECHILDREN-L@rootsweb.com>; <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 7:19 PM > Subject: [CAN-USA-MIG] SS Volendam - 1940 "British Children to Canada" > > > > Hello, > > > > Someone has e-mailed me and asked me if I knew about the ship, SS > > Volendam, which has carrying hundreds of children from Great Britain to > > Canada in April 1940. I became curious so I'm in the process of looking > > it up. So far I'm finding a few sites which are interesting to read: > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/34/a4297034.shtml > > > > http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/homefront/evacuation/overseas/default.htm > > > > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. > > To search the archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION > The information page is: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >