2010
SPECIAL EXHIBIT:
The
Fabric of British Home Children
until JAN 30.11
For hundreds of years children were removed from orphanages in Great Britain and sent to live with families in Commonwealth countries around the world. More than 100,000 children arrived in Canada between 1869 and the 1930s where they often worked as farm labourers or domestic servants.
In early 2010, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced that parliament designated 2010 as the Year of the Home Child in Canada in an effort to "honour the great strength and determination of this group of child immigrants, and reflect on the tremendous contributions made by former Home Children and their descendants to the building of Canada."
The Galt Museum & Archives is pleased to host two quilts created by Hazel Perrier from Claresholm, Alberta that honour the British Home Children. The Alberta Memory Quilt includes squares sent to Perrier from the ancestors of British Home Children. The other is a personal reflection of her own family connections to children sent to Canada from the United Kingdom.
The quilts are located
on the main floor, 1910 Galt Hospital wing of the Museum
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The British Home Children Memory Quilt (Alberta), 2010, 88 x 100" |
Hazel Perrier, Family Quilt, 2009, 85 x 85"
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JAN 05 Year of the British Home Child Quilts British Home Children quilt project designer Hazel Perrier shares her journey of discovery about her grandfather's origins as a British Home Child - one of the 100,000 orphaned children brought to Canada between 1869 and 1948. |
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Home
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Canada's History: Making Memories, an audio interview with Hazel Perrier |
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Mary
Janeway, Mary Janeway, born in Scotland in 1887, came to Canada as a 'home child' at a very young age. Separated from her brothers and sisters, the 'tiny' Mary was sent as a domestic to a farm near Innerkip, Ontario. This is Mary's story - a recreation of her life set in Victorian rural Ontario, from the time of the tradgedy that split her family to her eventual escape from the life of drudgery. Robbed of her childhood years but buoyed by her inner resolve and indomitable spirit, Mary Janeway reveals the tragic events surrounding this period in Canadian history - the Home Children. Mary Janeway was godmother to author Mary (Hewson) Pettit. |
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