Home Children to Canada 1925-1932

[susan-y]

Found this information today from the Library and Archives Canada site............



New version of the Home Children database

Gatineau, October 6, 2011 — Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the online database Home Children (1869-1930).More than 20,000 names of children, who came to Canada between 1925 and 1932, were added to the extended version. The names were extracted from passengers lists held at Library and Archives Canada.
The database is available at the following address:
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/home-children/index-e.html

Isn't it ironic that we can view these folks, but not find out when someone was born here in Canada less than 100 years ago? ( or find them on a census?)

Sue

[Mary Anne]

Hi, Sue

The Home Children database is gleaned from Canadian ships' passenger lists. You can find your own (Canadian) folks on the same passenger lists, for the same time period -- scans of these have also been made public by Library and Archives Canada.

While the passenger lists do have a lot of information about all of the people who travelled (including their age), they do not contain birth information. But they don't contain birth information on the Home Children, born in Britain, either. You have to go to the registry offices.

In Canada, it is the provincial governments who make the decisions about when private information (such as birth registrations) may be released to the public. Most of them are stuck at the proverbial 100 years, alas.

Mary Anne