ABSTRACT
From 1618 to 1967 Britain continued to export its children. Today, eleven per cent of Canada's population is descended from these child migrants. The principal aim was to place the children in a colony or part of the Empire where they would stay and become citizens. The movement of these children falls into approximately three periods. The first child migrants were sent to Australia, Canada, the USA, South Africa, Rhodesia, the West Indies and Bermuda. They mainly went out under the umbrella of local Boards of Guardians and were always greeted with open approval by the governments of the countries receiving them. Brenton was the first to realise that once the children arrived in a new country, they would need lengthly supervision. Many of Brenton's hopes for delinquent children became reality in Britain in the next decade when separate prisons were introduced for juvenile offenders and transportation ended.
