For more than 70 years, Canada and Britain were involved in an immigration scheme so cruel it could have come straight from a Dickens’ novel. 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 labourers and domestic servants. These Children were part of a little known British Child Immigration scheme run by 50 Childcare organizations in the British Isles. The children, most between the ages of 4 and 14, became known as the Home Children. The story of Canada ’s Home Children is one of this country’s best-kept secrets.