The Canadian Manufacturer and Industrial WorldFrederick Nicholls
The Honorable Frederick Nicholls, from Toronto, Ontario was a member of our Canadian Parliament who served, among many seats, on the Standing Committee on Immigration and Labour. He also served on the general council of the Canadian Patriotic Fund and the executive committee of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society. Mr. Nicholls was also the second vice-president of the Canadian General Electric Company and he was a highly regarded spokesperson for the manufacturing and hydroelectric industries here in Canada. He was remembered as " a Big Man," whose telephone summonses caused department heads to jump.
Mr. Nicholls was also the vice-president of the Toronto Press Club and creator & publisher of the official magazine for the Canadian Manufacturers Association called the "Canadian Manufacturer and Industrial World"
Among many articles written about the Home Children in his magazines, one lengthily article published in his April 1891 edition entitled “Undesirable Immigrants” stated:
"These waifs and strays are tainted and corrupt with moral slime and filth inherited from parents and surroundings of the most foul and disgusting character, and all the washing and clean clothes that Dr. Barnardo may bestow cannot possibly remove……There is no power whatever that can cleanse the lepers so as to fit them to become desirable citizens of Canada. Further it was stated that Dr. Barnardo was doing a great wrong in dumping his human warts and excrescences upon Canada.
Mr. Nicholls was also the vice-president of the Toronto Press Club and creator & publisher of the official magazine for the Canadian Manufacturers Association called the "Canadian Manufacturer and Industrial World"
Among many articles written about the Home Children in his magazines, one lengthily article published in his April 1891 edition entitled “Undesirable Immigrants” stated:
"These waifs and strays are tainted and corrupt with moral slime and filth inherited from parents and surroundings of the most foul and disgusting character, and all the washing and clean clothes that Dr. Barnardo may bestow cannot possibly remove……There is no power whatever that can cleanse the lepers so as to fit them to become desirable citizens of Canada. Further it was stated that Dr. Barnardo was doing a great wrong in dumping his human warts and excrescences upon Canada.
Choice quotes from this magazine about the Home Children
August 7 1891:
We beg to assure him (Dr. Barnardo) that whatever else he may do in his philantropic efforts to purify the slums of London and hoever good and reformed morally, his waifs may be, they are not wanted in Canada. He had better dispose of them elsewhere.
January 5 1894:
We do object that Canada should be made a dumping ground for a class of humanity for whom we have no use and whose presence cannot but be a source of contamination to the rising generation of our country.
April 1891
These waifs and strays are tainted and corrupt with moral slime and filth inherited from parents and surroundings of the most foul and disgusting character, and all the washing and clean clothes that Dr. Barnardo may bestow cannot possibly remove...There is no power whatever that can cleanse the lepers so as to fit them to become desirable citizens of Canada.
August 7 1891:
We beg to assure him (Dr. Barnardo) that whatever else he may do in his philantropic efforts to purify the slums of London and hoever good and reformed morally, his waifs may be, they are not wanted in Canada. He had better dispose of them elsewhere.
January 5 1894:
We do object that Canada should be made a dumping ground for a class of humanity for whom we have no use and whose presence cannot but be a source of contamination to the rising generation of our country.
April 1891
These waifs and strays are tainted and corrupt with moral slime and filth inherited from parents and surroundings of the most foul and disgusting character, and all the washing and clean clothes that Dr. Barnardo may bestow cannot possibly remove...There is no power whatever that can cleanse the lepers so as to fit them to become desirable citizens of Canada.
