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The selling of Life Insurance Policies to the British Home Children
(page incomplete -more information to be added)


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.from the dictionary of cdn biography LIFE INSURACE re george cox
  Aside from occasional troubles brought on by dips in the business cycle, most of the Cox companies prospered handsomely during the Laurier years. Their business methods came under close scrutiny by the federal royal commission appointed in 1906 to investigate the Canadian life-insurance industry. Its proceedings revealed substantial cross-trading, subsidization, and other insider exchanges among Canada Life, Imperial Life, and other Cox family firms; some of these transactions were covert and/or technically illegal. The commissioners concluded, in their Report of 1907, that Cox’s absolute control of Canada Life had “to a marked extent influenced the investments of the company, which have been made to serve not only the interests of the Canada Life Assurance Company, but also his own interests. . . . In many of these transactions the conflict of Mr. Cox’s interest with his duty is so apparent that the care of the insurance funds could not always have been the sole consideration.”


Mentions of Life Insurance for the BHC in the Ups & Downs Magazines

Names mentioned in these clips: Alfred Bush, Tom Vival, Herbert Painting, Ernest Rayment, Frederick A Hanks, 



Notes from Brian Rolfe on the practice of selling life Insurance to the British Home Children

It is god to hear that there was someone, (Kelso) eventually,
in a place of authority acknowledged and spoke against
the practice. In the report is it clear how 'child' is
defined? The way I read Kelso is that his 'children'
includes those under sixteen or fourteen, of any age
really, down into the age-range younger than the law
would permit a person to enter into an insurance
contract of his own making. The parent, or foster
parent, or employer or guardian would have to do it.
Once the child comes of age and can take a policy out
himself (after age 16?) there is sure a vulnerable
period when a visitor, say, who is also selling
insurance can exert influence both in advising the
young person to take a policy, and in the naming of
the beneficiary. If the newly insured does not have
any family -- that he knows about anyways -- why not
name the Home, or the loved Visitor, or the founder of
the Home. The stories that Ups and Downs presents as
dutiful paradigms of young Barnardo men who have taken
out policies, around 1900 and in 1913, have done so in
favour of the Home.

This is an important point and it provides a reason
for not telling children about the existence of
siblings. Doing so provides competition for those
contending to become the beneficiary.

It also, sadly, makes the young person more valuable
(to someone or something) dead than alive. And there
is the rub of a conflict of interest: that those
charged with the protection of the child can come to
benefit from his injury.

I notice Gillian Wagner has 2-3 pages on Margaret
Bondfield and the report she participated in making.
In 'Children of the Empire' the recommendation that
the emigration of children under under 14 be stopped
is presented as the main element, and the several
'minor' recommendations, of which your insurance is
one, are alluded to but not described. It is implied
too that Bondfield was a Labour MP, and even in the
Cabinet of a short-lived Labour Government of Labour
led coalition. I think it pays today to look carefully
and with an open mind at what organized labour in
Canada, for example in the person of DJ O'Donoghue,
had to say about child immigration. He and his Toronto
Trades and Labor Council had a combatative and
bristling relationship with Barnardo's and their agent
Owen. When O'Donoghue spoke at the Child Saving
Conference in 1894 (it is quoted in Wagner and Bagnell
I think) he said something to the effect that there
were more than a few ex-Barnardo boys who were in the
unions then, and that the tales they told of their
indentureships were enough 'to make an ordinary
Christian's blood curdle.' Of course it is implied:
not so a child saving evangelical Christian's. 

From: brian rolfe <ploughboyca@yahoo.com> 
Subject: [BHC] Bondfield Report and Life insurance. 
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 17:54:25 -0700 (PDT)


Dear List,
Here is the passage in my version (RG7 G21 vol. 309
File No. 26) of the Report dealing with life
insurance.

We found that the representative of an insurance
company hed been allowed by one or two of the
Societies to approach the boys, whilst in the
Receiving Home, on the subject of insuring their
lives. In another case an insurance agent had obtained
from the Receiving Home a list of boys and their
addresses and had visited them on the farms for the
same purpose. In a large number of cases it appeared
that the boys had actually taken out endowment
policies of 1,000 dollars payable at age 40, the
annual premiums varying from 17 to 20 dollars. We
discussed this question with the Societies concerned,
but were not convinced of the desirability of the
Societies' representatives associating themselves with
the activities of insurance agents, and by so doing
influencing the boys to take out policies. It seems to
us that boys of this age are not competent to form an
opinion for themselves as to the merits of a policy of
this kind, that they are liable to misjudge their
ability to continue the anual payments, which in many
cases would absorb the whole of the balance of their
annual wages, and that, in result, a large number of
lapsed policies would result.
...................
My comment, after ee cummings: 
There were so many 
who were so eager 
to genuflect before the belly of wealth 
without asking how many children 
dangled from his watchchain.


Brian Rolfe 
From: "Brian Rolfe" <b_rolfe@hotmail.com> 
Subject: Barnardo's and Life Insurance 
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 09:22:09 -0400


Dear List

This posting is about what the Liverpool series (and 1 later issue) of Ups 
and Downs tells us about Barnardo's Homes and life insuarance. It is my 
conjecture that the Homes derived a significant portion of its funds from 
the sale of, and the benefits received from, life insurance.

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From Ups and Downs, April 1900.
Fred. A. Hanks had written for advice as to joining a friendly society. The 
assessment system of beneficiary insurance was explained to him, and the 
Sons of England Benefit Society recommended to join. Incidentally his 
memotry was jogged in respect to an evanescent umbrella he had borrowed and 
was still borrowing. Some of these days a philosopher will arise who will 
explain why umbrellas and books are regarded as common property, and then, 
knowing the reason, we can govern ourselves accordingly. The following 
letter is a pleasing sequel to the foregoing, recognizing, as it does, on 
the part of Fred, a desire to leave something more than a good name behind 
him, and nominating the Homes as his beneficiary in case of death :

Mr Frederick A Hanks, Humber, Ont
Jan 29 1900
My Dear Frederick: I have received your letter and bank book, and in 
accordance with your request, I send you $5 from your account that will 
enable you to meet the first payment upon your insurance. I hope it will 
turn out to be a satisfactory investment for you; and we much appreciate 
your kind intention of bequeathing your money to the Homes. I hope it will 
be many a long year before we benefit by this; but whenever the time comes 
it will be much to the honour of your memory to have made this generous 
effort on behalf of those in need and suffering, and to help carry on, after 
you are gone, the work that is being done for their benefit. With best 
wishes, I remain,
Your sincere friend,
Alfred B Owen.
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Ups and Downs May 1913.
"It gives us great pleasure to reproduce the report handed in by Mr Copping 
after his visit to Frederick Leslie in January last. Mr Copping writes:
"In view of Frederick's age I had not proposed to call upon him, however, 
praised in the surrounding country, I visited this fine young fellow, and 
found him in receipt of $200 per annum, with several hundred dollars in the 
bank, a teetotaler and non-smoker, thoroughly contented with his lot and 
winning enthusiastic praise from members of the family with whom he resides. 
A leading characteristic of this young agriculturist is the gratitude he 
feels toward the Institution that has cared for him; and he incidentally 
mentioned that he has insured his life for $1000 and on the policy indicated 
that the money is to be paid to Dr. Barnardo's Homes."
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Ups and Downs January 1899.
There is a half-page ad on the inside back cover that reads as follows:

FRANK VIPOND
INSURANCE BROKER
84 Adelaide Street East,
Toronto.

INSURANCE to-day does not mean paying, paying, paying until you die. It 
means, if properly selected, you cannot lose your policy. If you stop paying 
premiums, in five years your policy is still good for a certain amount.

ARE YOU 20?
At that age it costs not Five cent a day to provide yourself at 40 years of 
age with a paid-up policy worth $1194.00; or you can receive a cash payment 
of four hundred and twenty dollars. Should you die before you are 40, your 
mother, wife, sister, or whoever you desire, receives $1000. This is a 
policy issued by one of the soundest and safest companies on the continent.

When chopping, splitting, threshing, driving, ploughing, barn-raising, or 
hauling hay, an accident is the easiest thing imaginable. You are laid up 
for weeks. <[bold] Doctors' bills are heavy.[end-bold]> The physical pain is 
bad enough, <without worrying about the loss of money.> You can avoid this 
by taking an accident policy in a leading old country company. 'Weigh up' 
the chances of being hurt,and then realize how small is the cost of placing 
yourself beyond risk of loss. 2 1/2 cents a day will provide three dollars a 
week while injured, and six hundred dollars if totally disabled or fatally 
injured. If you are not working on a farm the cost is even less.

Write and obtain full particulars of safe and profitable insurance of all 
kinds.

FRANK VIPOND
INSURANCE BROKER,
84 Adelaide Street East,
Toronto.
======================================================

Ups and Downs, April 1903, p 104.
TO EVERY READER.
"The one quality which makes for the success of a young man than any 
other is Persistence. This is cultivated more directly and systematically 
through regular payments of premiums on a Life Policy than in any other way.
Your special attention is directed to an article on that subject, on 
page 53 in this issue. In reading this article bear in mind that every 
advantage and privilegementioned may be obtained in the policies of the 
Canada Life Assurance Company.
The Canada Life wrote more paid-for business in Canada in 1902 than any 
other native company, and its total business in force in Canada is more than 
twice as large as that of any other Canadian Life office.
These two facts indicate that Canada Life contracts are up-to- date and 
attractive to new insurers, and that the profit returns on old policies are 
highly satisfactory to their holders."

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Ups and Downs April 1903.
Page 74. "We had a call at the Home not long ago from William Thomas, who 
reported that he had lately arrived from the North-West, where for some time 
previous he had been employed on the McLeod Branch of the CPR. Having met 
with an accident in the company's employ, he was given three month's 
holiday, which he was spending in Ontario. William was anxious to obtain the 
address of his sister, as he is carrying insurance policies to the amount of 
$6,000.00, of which she is the beneficiary. He has bought land in the 
district of Dauphin...."
=================================================

Barnardo Old Boys' Society.
This group was born in the period and in about 1905 it became, or spawned, a 
Benefit Society, the BOBBS. Unfortunately the Liverpool series end too soon 
to gather much about the BOBBS (it seems to have disappeared, at least from 
the pages of Ups and Downs, by 1913) but there are reports of meetings of 
the BOBS attended regularly by Frank Vipond.

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Frank Vipond was the managing editor of Ups and Downs in its first 2-3 years 
(1895 and 1896) when his official connection with the home was severed, 
according to an AB Owen editorial. Nevertheless he contributed a piece to 
the October 1901 issue ("The Barnardo Boy," a seven page essay calling on 
the grown boys to band together and stand up and be seen; that is, promoting 
membership in the BOBS.) and was at least an occasional, and probably a 
regular, visitor at meetings of the BOBS. In his life he seems to have worn 
a few hats: in the Toronto directory he is in 1899 a journalist, in 1905 a 
rep for the 'News', in 1910 Rev Frank Vipond is rector at St Barnabas 
Church, Sarah St.

Kenneth Bagnall calls him a champion of the Barnardo cause, and describes 
him as a Methodist minister. But from Vipond's advertisement in the 1899 
issue one might want to add: insurance broker.

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With the long illness and decline of Dr Thomas Barnardo preceding for years 
his death in 1905, and with the Boer War drawing funds that might otherwise 
have continued to flow to the homes, new sources of funding had to be found. 
Barnardo's had been founder-dependant: Thomas Barnardo's charisma and his 
passionate pleas for money drew donations from wealthy Britons and the man 
on the street alike, and his decline and inability to work to the old levels 
of energy left the source of their money in question. But in the event 
Barnardo's Homes Canadian Branch survived because the grown chidren became 
to a significant degree its support. Their duty - to repay the Home that had 
helped them when in need - was spelled out in the magazine, and not only 
donations but life insurance benefits were solicited by the Homes.

The magazine had years to instill the lesson in its readers, once the 
pattern was established, if the youngsters followed the moral teaching of 
the anecdotes selected by the editor as fit for printing. The 'need' for 
life insurance, even for single men, labourers, just starting out in life, 
was established in the readers by repetition of anecdotes of grown boys who 
were dutifully repaying what the Home did for them by naming the Home as 
beneficiary of whole-life policies.

So far as the insurance companies, Canada Life Assurance among them, were 
concerned, Barnardo's Homes were a sales drive waiting to happen: imagine 
the opportunity: one man, ABO speaks, and hundreds of his wards line up to 
buy. The Institution bred children not only to become self-sufficient, but 
also to become good providers in sustaining the work of the Home for the new 
generation of immigrant children coming along.

=============================

After a few years of reading about the models presented as the ones to be 
emulated, the younger children must have become thoroughly indoctrinated as 
to the young adult that they were expected to become: pious, teetotaling and 
non-smoking, thrifty savers, hard workers and self-teachers as well as good 
students, sober obedient and, in addition, young adults mindful of what the 
Homes have done to help them and willing to repay them through donations and 
through life insurance benefits.

And it is my opinion that the practices of Barnardo's then, around the 
pitching of whole-life policies to young adult men (who worked frequently at 
dangerous occupations) has consequences to this day as to what information 
Barnardo's Aftercare is willing to release about the brothers of our 
Barnardo grandparents.

It is relevant to this question of life insurance that George Albertus Cox, 
of Peterborough until ~1888, was president of Canada Life Assurance Company 
for many years, and its Peterborough agent before that, from 1861 forward. 
It is he who bestowed Hazel Brae on the Home. I have seen him described as 
the richest Canadian west of Montreal; and that there is much mystery 
surrounding his affairs because his family destroyed almost all of his 
papers soon after his death in 1914.

Also of interest is that there was a Royal commission on Insurance in 1907, 
and a Royal Commission on Business Practices in 1914, which apparently 
resulted in the forced separation of banking, trust and insurance companies.

Brian Rolfe 

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