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We never knew anything about my husband’s grandfather Walter Dance, and the only answer to any question was “he was an English Orphan who abandoned the family years ago”. No one in the family ever talked about him it was like he had never existed. In 1999 w...

This was shared at a recent Women's Institute meeting in Norval.  It was part of a school project in 1984. It is written by the 12 year old granddaughter of British Home Child, John McVittie. "This is a story about the little immigrants, the orphans, who ca...

A Granddaughter's Search for the Hidden Years In 1986, I read a one page excerpt from a book that led to a change in my life.  I became a family researcher.  The book was called "The Little Immigrants", the author, Kenneth Bagnell.  I immediately purchased my...