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Title Statement | Finding Home / |
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Author | Ness Gordon, Laurie |
Additional Contributors | Burke Allen, Ruth |
Publication | Kingston, Ontario: LauraL Press,2023. |
Extent of Item | 462 pages |
ISBN | 9781772573558 |
Summary | Finding Home chronicles the lives of two young people in early Canada. Sarah Phillips, a servant orphaned by cholera in London in 1869, crosses the ocean desperately seeking her family. Richard Breeze, the disgraced son of an Ontario sawmill owner, must redeem himself in his father’s eyes and then chart his own course. Their individual journeys are brought together by a group of Home Children: poor youth and street urchins from the slums of England sent to Canada as cheap farm labour or domestic help.Finding Home is also the story of a lively, close-knit community in a young country. Tensions mount over an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, an accidental drowning and even murder, as the authors pull back the curtain on many issues of the time: class differences, Protestant/Catholic friction, homophobia, racism and the treatment of child immigrants. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Home children (Canadian immigrants) |
Canada--Emigration and immigration--History | |
By Location | Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History |
Kingston (Ont.)--Authors--Ness Gordon, Laurie | |
Kingston (Ont.)--Authors--Burke Allen, Ruth |