Karen and List: One estimate says that 10% of the population of Canada is descended from home children. I'm Scots born and have no Canadian roots at all and I'm far from an expert on Home Children, however this is what I know. I'm itnerested because two of my very best friends are the offspring of home children - one had a grandfather from 'somewhere in England', the other a father who became an anglican priest here in Canada and who kept a diary every single day of his life....her mother, obviously ashamed of his background, disposed of the earlier journals after his death. The point is that there are very many Canadians descended from home children; There was a MacPherson home in Knowlton and Richmond Quebec and Ms Rye had one in Sherbrooke. There is no complete list but there are wonderful people working hard to gather information. Their websites to look at for information in no particular order: 1. The British Home Children website hosted by Perry Snow http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~britishhomechildren/ He also hosts the terrific and very recent mailing list British Home Children......can't remember how to subscribe but have a look through Rootsweb.......BRITISHHOMECHILDREN-L@rootsweb.com. Perry has also written a great book "Neither Waifs Nor Strays" which is available on the web page 2. the National Archives has a searchable database taken from ships passenger lists of children who came over with the different agencies. ......http://www.archives.ca/exec/naweb.dll?fs&020110&e&top&0 3. Marj Kohli at the University of Waterloo has huge amounts of information about the homes and children, and she's really helpful.......and her email is marj@ist.uwaterloo.ca http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/genealogy.html 4. David Lorente is the guru of home children and has been fighting for information for years. Unfortunately, I hear that he is so backlogged (600 inquiries to answer - he gets hundreds DAILY) that he has shut down for a while to catch up, but the website has great information http://pda.republic.net/othsa/HomeChild/HomeIndex.html 5. There are two people in Quebec who are experts on the area,Sarge & Pauline Bampton but I don't know how to get hold of them....I think Marj Kohli's web page lists them..... Hope this helps Heather