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The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada Paperback - 2001

by Kenneth Bagnell


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The Little Immigrants is a tale of compassion and courage and a vivid account of a deep and moving part of Canadian heritage. In the early years after Confederation, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony's farm-labour shortage.

They were known as the "home children," and they were lonely and frightened youngsters to whom a new life in Canada meant only hardship and abuse. This is an extraordinary but almost forgotten odyssey that the Calgary Herald has called, "One of the finest pieces of Canadian social history ever to be written." Kenneth Bagnell tells "an affecting tale of Dickensian pathos" (Vancouver Sun) that is "excellent ... well organized, logical, clearly written, [and] suspenseful" (The Edmonton Journal).

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  • Title The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada
  • Author Kenneth Bagnell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dundurn Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Date 2001-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781550023701 / 1550023705
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.06 x 0.54 in (23.06 x 15.39 x 1.37 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002318310
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.230

About the author

Kenneth Bagnell grew up in Nova Scotia and moved to Toronto in the sixties to pursue a career in journalism. He has worked with the "Toronto Star," the "Globe and Mail," and has received various awards for magazine writing and editing. He is also a renowned public speaker.

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