Canada’s involvement in a child labour scheme. Childhood Lost: The Story of Canada’s Home Children From 1869 to the late 1930’s more than 100,000 unaccompanied British children were shipped from the United Kingdom to Canada as cheap agricultural laborers and domestic servants. The children, most between the ages of 4 and 14, became known as “Home Children”. The Home Children were part of a British Child Immigration scheme run by more than 50 child-care organizations in the United Kingdom. The goal of the program was to relieve [...]