Surplus Children Sent to Canada
Canadian History
April 14, 1826
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Apr 14,1826 - Robert Chambers told a committee of the British Parliament dealing with emigration that London was too full of children. He recommended that Britain's surplus children be sent to Canada as farm labour.
Library and Archives Canada/PA-41785*
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"It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?"
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