Home Children 1869 - 1930 |
Library and Archives Canada has released an online database "Home Children (1869-1930)". The database includes more than 20,000 names of children, who came to Canada.
The names of Dalton children have been extracted for the Dalton Data Bank by DGS North American Secretary Karen Dalton Preston, at the suggestion of Michael Neale Dalton, DGS Chairman.
Home Children is a common term used to refer to the child migration scheme founded by Annie MacPherson in 1869, under which more than 100,000 children were sent to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa from the United Kingdom.
The practice of sending poor or orphaned children to British colonies began to help alleviate the shortage of labour there. Labour shortages in the British colonies also encouraged the kidnapping of children for work in the Americas, and large numbers of children were forcibly emigrated.
The main pioneers of child migration in the nineteenth century were the Scottish Evangelical Christian, Annie MacPherson, her sister Louisa Birt, and Londoner, Maria Rye. She later became convinced that the real solution for these children lay in emigration to a country of opportunity and started an emigration fund. In the first year of the fund's operation, 500 children were shipped to Canada. McPherson opened distribution homes in Canada in the towns of Belleville and Galt in Ontario and persuaded her sister, Louisa, to open a third home in the village of Knowlton, seventy miles from Montreal. This was the beginning of a massive operation which sought to find homes and careers for Britain's needy children.
It is the onus of the user to verify the data.
This page was created 5 November, 2011
If you have researched your Dalton family and wish to contribute your data to the Bank, it will be most welcome. Contact for more information on how to submit your data.
CONTENTS
Surname |
Given Name |
Age |
Sex |
Ship |
Year of Arrival |
Sending Agency |
Taken into Care by |
Dalton |
Ada |
|
F |
Australasian |
1901 |
|
|
Dalton |
Andre |
15 |
M |
Montclare |
1932 |
|
|
Dalton |
Arthur |
12 |
M |
Minnedosa |
1922 |
|
|
Dalton |
Charles |
15 |
M |
Ascania |
1912 |
|
|
Dalton |
Daniel |
10 |
M |
Circassian |
1886 |
|
|
Dalton |
Donald |
15 |
M |
Duchess of Richmond |
1930 |
|
|
Dalton |
Edward |
15 |
M |
Kensington |
1905 |
|
|
Dalton |
Ellen |
13 |
F |
Pretorian |
1904 |
|
|
Dalton |
Emily |
6 |
F |
Sardinian |
1892 |
|
|
Dalton |
Emily |
9 |
F |
Sardinian |
1888 |
|
|
Dalton |
Ernest D |
11 |
M |
Tunisian |
1903 |
|
|
Dalton |
G. |
10 |
F |
Dominion |
1905 |
|
|
Dalton |
George |
15 |
M |
Dominion |
1907 |
|
|
Dalton |
George |
14 |
M |
Bavarian |
1905 |
|
|
Dalton |
H E |
11 |
M |
Scotsman |
1896 |
|
|
Dalton |
Henry J |
17 |
M |
Doric |
1929 |
|
|
Dalton |
Hugh |
13 |
M |
Corsican |
1913 |
|
|
Dalton |
J Albert |
18 |
M |
Laurentic |
1913 |
|
|
Dalton |
James |
14 |
M |
|
1874 |
|
|
Dalton |
James |
7 |
M |
Circassian |
1893 |
|
|
Dalton |
James |
14 |
M |
Pomeranian |
1903 |
|
|
Dalton |
James William |
15 |
M |
Montroyal |
1929 |
|
|
Dalton |
Janet |
14 |
F |
Sarmatian |
1897 |
|
|
Dalton |
John |
10 |
M |
Pomeranian |
1903 |
|
|
Dalton |
John |
14 |
M |
Corsican |
1911 |
|
|
Dalton |
Joseph |
11 |
M |
Corsican |
1910 |
|
|
Dalton |
Lucy |
7 |
F |
Moravian |
1871 |
|
|
Dalton |
Mary E |
7 |
F |
Parisian |
1889 |
|
|
Dalton |
May |
6 |
F |
Carthaginian |
1912 |
|
|
Dalton |
Michael |
19 |
M |
Megantic |
1913 |
|
|
Dalton |
Olive |
20 |
F |
Empress of Britain |
1913 |
|
|
Dalton |
Patrick |
11 |
M |
Victorian |
1914 |
|
|
Dalton |
Percy G |
19 |
M |
Ausonia |
1927 |
|
|
Dalton |
Richard |
9 |
M |
Sardinian |
1883 |
|
|
Dalton |
Robert A |
16 |
M |
Moravian |
1871 |
|
|
Dalton |
Stephen Matthew |
11 |
M |
Dominion |
1902 |
|
|
Dalton |
Thomas |
6 |
M |
Parisian |
1889 |
|
|
Dalton |
Thomas |
14 |
M |
Montrose |
1922 |
|
|
Dalton |
Walter |
11 |
M |
Tunisian |
1905 |
|
|
Dalton |
Ernest D |
13 |
M |
|
1903 |
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