The National Children's Home and Orphanage
Canadian Branch Hamilton, Ontario
Credit to many of the photos here: Their History - History of a Child in Care
The National Children's Home - Young Immigrants to Canada
The National Children's Home in England was first started by Dr. Thomas Bowman Stephenson, a Wesleyan minister in 1869. In 1873 the first group of children were brought to Canada.
Informaton on this home and their records may be found at:
Young Immigrants to Canada
Action for Children (formally the National Children's Home)
Young Immigrants to Canada
Action for Children (formally the National Children's Home)
Source: Library and Archives Canada
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Dr. Stephenson from the book: The Temperance Movement and Its Workers: A Record of Social, Moral, Religious, and Political ...Published 1891 by Blackie & Son .
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Victoria Stone Company in Bonner Road, Bethnal Green, London
"The Children's Home" - NCHO early years
Wheatsheaf Inn in rural Edgeworth, Lancashire; Dr. Stephenson housed children here, starting in about 1872.
Adrian W Leslie, Alfred B Andrews, Arthur J Lewis, Arhtur R Uren, Cecil W. H. Press, Cyril Jones, David Giles, Douglas Farragher, Ernest Baldwin, Ernest T Hilsdon, Frank Fillingham, Frederick Evans, Frederick Douglas, Frederick W Emberlin, George Griffiths, George G. Beech, Gilbert Dunn, Hamlet Nicholson, Herbert Newton, Herbert A Murfitt, Herbert U Uren, Jack S Jordon, James E keen, John Ingham, John A Nye, john L Mills, Joseph Bustard, Richard H Thomas, Steedman L Gedge, Thomas Miller, Victor Shaw, William Clarke, William Irvine, William F Hawke, William H Evans
Both the photo above and the photo below had the captions as being the first NCH children brought to Canada - 1873
1873 The first group of children brought to Canada
A group of girls at the National Children's Home
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1899 Party of boys- March 1899
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Boy's ready to leave for Canada
Young boys leaving for Canada, above against a fake background.
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Henry Charles Clements
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A girl sent to Canada to start a new life
