Barnado’s waifs in Britain and Canada

Boys from the slums of English cities, sheltered on an unknown date by Bernardo Homes. By 1939, some 30,000 Barnardo children were brought to Canada, the boys working on farms and the girls working as domestic servants. Wikimedia Commons, Wellcome Library, London, Welcome Images.   “The August-September issue of the National Waif’s Magazine, the official […]