From the 1860s up to the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of children were sent
from Britain to Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries under
child migration schemes. This picture shows three young boys from Walworth,
en route to a new life in Brisbane in 1957.
The idea behind the schemes was to provided much-needed labour for the colonies, while offering a better quality of life to unprivileged children from Britain's overcrowded cities. Here, boys in Liverpool are shown learning farming skills prior to their emigration to Canada to become labourers in the late 1920s.
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The idea behind the schemes was to provided much-needed labour for the colonies, while offering a better quality of life to unprivileged children from Britain's overcrowded cities. Here, boys in Liverpool are shown learning farming skills prior to their emigration to Canada to become labourers in the late 1920s.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatpicturegalleries/9708061/On-their-own-Britains-child-migrants.html?frame=2412033