WAHS explores history of British Home Children in Huron County

WINGHAM – In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, over 100,000 British children were sent across the Atlantic to Canada in an astonishing migration movement that continued into the 1940s and profoundly impacted many families and communities. Known as British Home children, these young immigrants, many as young as six years old, were transported…
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Cory Bilyea is a reporter with Midwestern Newspapers.