Hello, I don't remember if this important event has been mentioned on this List recently. So, I'd like to offer some information. There are many researchers on the BHC List, and the majority are descendants of the "Home Children." After many years of trying, we finally got the government in Canada to proclaim: "2010, the Year of the British Home Child." And, we have also been trying for many years to "spread the word," but have been working harder at this this year. We decided to create a "BHC QUILT" and 2 quilts are in the process of being made. And we found out there is a magazine in Canada which concentrates on stories about Canadians, and their history. The editor of the magazine has offered to create a special edition of the magazine which will be a collection of stories submitted by "Home Children" descendants. One reminder is that in the United Kingdom, the children were called "Child Migrants." And between 1860's and 1940's "over 100,000" children were "shipped to Canada." And, thousands more were shipped to Australia, New Zealand, parts of Africa, Malta - wherever there was a British Colony. This "Scheme" even went on in the 1600's and 1700's. http://www.britishhomechildren.org/ Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) P.S. If you are searching for a child or teen that went to Canada 1860's to 1940's, and you can't find out how he or she got there, consider the BHC story. And, young adults in th U.K. could have gotten on the ships with them if there was room.