Cynthia Stiles wrote:

> Subject: Re: HOUSE, Samuel & CANNICOTT, Alswitha / Bristol
> Date: 05/12/2003, 19:01
> From: Cynthia Stiles <stiles@linkcheck.co.uk>
> To: Bristol_and_Somerset-L@rootsweb.com
> I found this in an 1882 Bristol newspaper and knowing people often ask
> about how
> their ancestors were sent to Canada as children, I thought it might be
> of interest.
>
> In the paper it stated that the Canadian Home for Girls, 9 Bishop
> Street, Bristol had
> been open for more than a year and there were applicants waiting to be
> admitted as
> soon as the committee saw the way to meeting the expenses for them. It
> cost five
> pounds per passage and a good outfit ahd to be found for each child.
> The children
> had to be in a helathy state to be admitted to the home and during
> their stay they
> were prepared physically for the life before them and they were given
> plenty of good
> food. The girls must be orphans and under the age of 13 and it was
> noted that some
> had gone there as early as 3 years old. It was stated that Miss
> Macpherson had
> recently visited and taken away twelve girls with her.
>
> Miss Macpherson may have been the contact from Canada - it didn't say.
> The piece
> quoted is a report given at a 'soiree' to raise funds for the Home.
>
> Cynthia Stiles
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