Home Children Trunk Sources


Consulted Course Readings:

  • Caswell, Michelle. “‘The Archive’ Is Not An Archives: On Acknowledging the
    Intellectual Contributions of Archival Studies.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary
    Culture 16(1): (2016) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bn4v1fk
  • Ian Milligan, “Lost in the Infinite Archive: The Promise and Pitfalls of Web Archives,”
    International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (2016): 78-94
    https://oculuo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/17kkpb9/cdi_crossref_primary_10
    _3366_ijhac_2016_0161
  • Rawson, K. J. “The Rhetorical Power of Archival Description: Classifying Images of
    Gender Transgression.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 48(4): (2017)
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02773945.2017.1347951

Archival Catalogue Records:

  • Title: A. Bowen, Toronto. List of Workhouse Children Sent out by Dr. Barnardo This
    Year
    Archival Reference: RG17, Volume number: 625, File number: 70871
    URL: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=1955788&lang=eng
    Item ID Number: 1955788
  • Title: Department of Agriculture (Canada) – Dr. Barnardo’s children
    Archival Reference: RG25-BH-1-a, Volume number: 11
    http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=1796831&lang=eng
    Item ID number: 1796831
  • Title: E. Clay, Halifax. Letter on Mrs. Birt’s & Dr. Barnardo’s Children Archival Reference: RG17, Volume number: 399, File number: 43134 URL: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=1912192&lang=eng Item ID: 1912192
  • Title: E. Clay, Halifax. Tel: Shall He Forward Dr. Barnardo’s Children
    Archival Reference: RG17, Volume number: 477, File number: 52275
    URL: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=1938601&lang=eng
    Item ID: 1938601
  • Title: W. G. Annesley, Peterborough. List of Children brought out by Dr. Barnardo in
    1887
    Archival Reference: RG17, Volume number: 550, File number: 61591 1/2
    URL: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=1948323&lang=eng
    Item ID Number: 1948323

Internet Articles:

  • An Online Exhibition of Canadian Dress (1840-1890) –
    https://www.historymuseum.ca/confederationdress/childrens-wear/
  • British Home Child Trunks – https://britishhomechild.com/ephemera/trunks-and-items/
  • British Home Children In Canada –
    https://canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com/childrens-trunks–bibles.html
  • Children’s Trunks & Bibles – https://www.pinterest.com/pin/childrens-trunks-biblesbritish-home-children-in-canada–359443614027994115/
  • Discovering my great grandfather — his journey as a Barnardo child –
    https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/discovering-my-great-grandfather-hisjourney-as-a-barnardo-child/article_def73472-19aa-5d48-adbd-da281fa08749.html
  • Guest Post: The Home Child’s Secret – https://thecowkeeperswish.com/2022/10/05/guestpost-the-home-childs-secret/
  • Home Child Box – 1912 – https://100objects.qahn.org/content/home-child-box-1912
  • Home Children (Little Immigrants) – https://www.lambtonmuseums.ca/en/lambtoncounty-archives/home-children-little-immigrants.aspx
  • Home Children Canada Now a Registered Canadian Charity –
    https://www.britishhomechildren.com/
  • The 1905 Cecil Bennett Dr. Barnardo Trunk –
    https://www.britishhomechildrenregistry.com/Person/bhcInfo/87
  • THE BRITISH HOME CHILDREN – https://cihs-shic.ca/the-british-home-children/
  • TOWNSHIP OF HAVELOCK BELMONT METHUEN Public Library –
    https://hbmlibrary.on.ca/british-home-children/
  • Trunks & Travel –
    https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/immigration/imf0900e.html