Marjorie Too Afraid To Cry: A Home Child Experience by Pat Skidmore
My mother Marjorie, now lives in Oliver
Marjorie spent 5 years at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School on Vancouver Island, in the summer of 1940, Marjorie was later sent to work at the Fairbridge Fintry Training Farm just south of Vernon.
Pictured above Pat Skidmore and mother Marjorie at today’s Oliver Kiwanis lunch.
Further information can be found on my website at: http://patriciaskidmore.
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Canada did proclaim 2010 the “Year of the British Home Child” and on 1 September 2010, Canada Post released a commemorative stamp to honour those who were sent to Canada. In the province of Ontario, the British Home Child Day Act, 2011 makes September 28 in each year ‘British Home Child Day’ to “…recognize and honour the contributions of the British home children who established roots in Ontario”.
United Kingdom
On Wednesday, 23 February 2010, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown issued an official apology for the “shameful” child resettlement programme and announced a £6 million fund designed to compensate the families affected by the “misguided” programme.