ABSTRACT
The child migration movement increased in intensity under the philanthropists, despite the damning evidence of the Doyle Report. This government inquiry into child migration sharply painted the miseries in store for the children and concluded forcefully that child migration was wrong. Doyle's experiences convinced him that any system that allowed children to be placed in homes about which little or nothing was known by the philanthropic agencies, with hardly any supervision, was wrong. Doyle succeeded in revealing the ruthless exploitation of the children. It was his view that British children ought to expect elementary safeguards wherever they were and his report aimed at providing them. Few others shared his views, either then or later. Some migrant children were naturally difficult to handle, but it's only extraordinary that so few of them were, given their circumstances and origins and the life they were expected to live in Canada.
