They've been living in the streets, somewhat like a Dickens novel. "These children had come from impoverished backgrounds in England and in Scotland. What I read was about 120,000 children were sent from the streets of London and Liverpool over to Canada, basically to work as indentured servants and farm labourers. I couldn't believe this actually happened. "I ran across one article in 2017 that took me away. The forgotten story of the British Home Children Graham spoke with The Next Chapterabout writing The Forgotten Home Child. Many were subsequently mistreated and abused. The East Coast writer's latest novel is The Forgotten Home Child, which was inspired by the real story of the British Home Children: youth who were immigrated into Canada as a source of cheap labour. Genevieve Graham is the bestselling author of historical fiction works like Come From Away, which is about a Nova Scotia community in 1939, and Promises to Keep, which is a historical romance set in Acadia circa 1755.
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