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    1. [QC-ETANGLO] This came to me via another list and thought it might help someone.
    2. Melody Campagna
    3. Hi Melody: I'll add these two names to the website list. The time frame is quite off, but I thought you might like to see this reference to Ajax, Ontario from my book. Any trauma these young children experienced by being separated from their families and raised in institutions would have been compounded by their deportation. They were sent to a cold and inhospitable country. Children are more likely to reflect their traumatic experiences in their behaviour rather than their words. Bed-wetting was a prevalent indicator of their responses to traumatic experiences. An Ontario Immigration official noted that two-thirds of the British Home Children suffered from enuresis. He referred to this as their "dirty habits" that were proof of their immoral parents' lives. Many children who did not overcome their enuresis were deported back to England (Parr 103-107). "My first farm job was at East Angus, Quebec where they treated me as if I were a dumb farm animal. When the farm owner had visitors, he brought us English boys into the house. He ridiculed us because of our accents. I was there for about a year. They took me by horse and wagon to Sherbrooke, where I saw Mr. Keeley to get another job." (Fred Snow) Snow, Perry. Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search for a Stolen Identity. Universal Publishers, USA, 2000 p.30 http://www.upublish.com/books/snow.htm Melody(Knapp) Campagna http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/a/m/Melody-A-Campagna/

    03/21/2000 12:18:51