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“If, as psychiatry has told us, the years of our childhood are the years that shape our inner lives forever, then the practice of child emigration—the act of uprooting children and sending them, alone, across the ocean to work in a strange land in a strange occupation—must be regarded as one of the most Draconian measures in the entire history of children in English-speaking society. Its impact on the life of a sensitive child—even one who was placed in reasonable circumstances—is difficult to measure, sometimes difficult even to imagine“ ¹

Kenneth Bagnell,

The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada

“I don't know why they needed a girl…after all they had Annie. My grandparents never talked about Mary. My grandma was a bit hoity toity. I got the feeling that things weren't too good for Mary…you know she ran away.” ²

Joseph Jacques,

grandson of Daniel Jacques