Author: Perry Allan Snow
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 9781581127584
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The author's father, Frederick George Snow (1909-1994), became a ward of the Church of England Society for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays when he was four years old in 1913. He was sent from England to Canada as one of the "Home Children" when he was fifteen. This book contains the author's search for his father's identity and family in England as well as information on the British child emigration system between 1880 and 1930.