ABSTRACT
The first wave of child migrants to Canada is in their seventies, eighties and nineties but many are still in tears when recalling their early life. Many of the children's Homes just packed off a bundle of children overseas with no explanation. One girl remembers the Home she was in "being emptied overnight" and that she would have gone too had she not been ill. Some boys remember being told of the attractions of Rhodesia at school; other children were given a stark choice between Canada and Australia. Many remember their sad and bewildered parting with a parent or relation. Children sent out to orphanages and farm schools found themselves pushed out to work on farms or in some menial occupation. There was little chance of them ever following a career of any sort, let alone one that they would like. They went from a life of isolation and hardship to precisely the same life elsewhere.
