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Ships They Came On - only Reformatory and Industrial Schools

The data in the following tables was extracted from the Government of Canada Sessional Papers. In the early years, the report for the port of Quebec was the only one given. Later, reports sometimes appeared for Halifax, Saint John and a few other places such as Hamilton (this must have been lake traffic).

The numbers given in the various categories changed meaning over the years. For example, at one time a male was any male over 12 years; a female any female over 12 years; a child was over one year of age and an infant under one. Sometimes all children 12 and under were listed as "child" and the infant category was not used.

The numbers of passengers given here did not always agree with the numbers that were quoted in other government reports. Therefore, these figures should only be used as a guideline. Dates also were not consistent, sometimes being given and sometimes not. Later forms changed so that ships names were not given but the destination of the party was.

The information is for all "assisted" passage. This means for the organizations bringing children as well as reformatories, industrial schools and emigration groups, such as the East End Emigration Society and the Clerkenwell Emigration Committee. These later two groups, and others like them, brought hundreds of people to Canada.

Immigration of Juveniles at the Port of Quebec(1)
Year	Date	Ship	Org.	Male	Female	Child	Infants
1862	May 10		Red Hill Reformatory	2
	May 13		"	4
	May 20		"	2
	May 29		"	2
	May 29		Sandbach Reformatory (Cheshire)	4
	June 7		Red Hill Reformatory	2
	June 26		Beesdale Reformatory (Lancashire)	2
	July 11		Leeds Reformatory	4
	July 11		Hertz Reformatory	5
	July 14		Red Hill Reformatory	2
	July 14		Herts Reformatory	1
	Aug 6		Liverpool Farm School	3
	Aug 11		Red Hill Reformatory	2
	Sept 6		Hampshire Reformatory	4
	Oct 10		St. Kevin's Reformatory (Wicklow)	3
	Oct 30		Red Hill Reformatory	2
1863			Glencree Reformatory	2
			Kingswood Reformatory	4
			Liverpool Farm School	2
			North Lancashire Reformatory, Bleesdale	4
			Wandsworth Reformatory	10
			Warwickshire Reformatory (Weston)	1
			North Lincolnshire Reformatory	2
			Glasgow Industrial School		10
1868		Moravian	Wellington Farm School	2
	May	Elizabeth Bright	Homeless Boy's Int,London	1
	May	Damascus	Stapleton Reformatory	3
	Nov 4	St. Lawrence	Queen's Reformatory, Bloomsbury, London	18
1869	May 3	Nova Scotian	Hertfordshire Reformatory	4
	May 31	Cleopatra	Model Farm, Surrey	18
	June 22	St. David	Dublin by Lamplight In.		5
	Oct 4	Peruvian	St. Joseph's Home, Sheffield		2
	"	"	Bristol & Clifton Emigration Society		1	3
1871	July 24	Moravian	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	1
	Aug 13	Nestorian	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.		3
	Sept 5	Moravian	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	2	1	6
	Oct 10	Hibernian	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	3	1	3
	Oct 22	Sarmatian	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	2
1872	May 10	Hibernian	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	11	5	6
	May 20	Scotland	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	21	10	12
	May 27	Sarmatian	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	2
	July 2	Niger	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	1	1	5
	July 9	Sarmatian	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	1
	Aug 11	Peruvian	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	1
	Sept 24	Nestorian	Brighton, Sussex, Em. Soc.	1	1	1
1875	May 11	Scandinavian	Red Hill Reformatory	2
	May 11	"	Feltham Reformatory	2
	May 11	"	Rev. Fletcher, Dublin		4
	May 13	Vicksburg	Miss Fletcher	2
	May 17	Ontario	Miss Fletcher	1
	May 18	Moravian	Feltham Reformatory	2
	May 26	Sarmatian	Herts Reformatory	1
1875	May 26	"	Middlesex School	2
	May 26	Sarmatian	Ready Oak School	2
	"	"	Boys Home, Kent	2
	June 1	Peruvian	Wandsworth Institution	3
	"	"	Byfleet School	5
	"	"	Feltham Reformatory	1
	June 8	Nova Scotian	Feltham Reformatory	2
	"	"	Red Hill Reformatory	1
	June 18	Prussian	Feltham Reformatory	2
	"	"	Boys' Refuge, London	15
	June 21	Polynesian	Herts Reformatory	2
	"	"	Feltham Reformatory	4
	July 13	Peruvian	Red Hill Reformatory	2
	"	"	Wandsworth	3
1876	June 6	Peruvian	Kingswood Reformatory	3
1877	April 30	Sardinian	Red Hill Reformatory	2
	July 11	Moravian	Alloe Reformatory, Essex	2
1885			Feltham Reformatory	25
			Red Hill Reformatory	7
			D. Shea, Birkdale	6
			Liverpool Industrial School	4
1886			Feltham Reformatory	18
			Birkdale Farm School, Liverpool	12
			Red Hill Reformatory	11
			Everton Terrace Industrial School, Liverpool	9
			Middlesex Industrial School	7
			Bedfordshire Reformatory	6
			Suffolk Reformatory	5
			Orford Reformatory	3
1886			Warwickshire Industrial School	3
			Meath Industrial School, Dublin	3
1887			Barnes' Home, Stockport	11
1888			Buxton Reformatory	6
			Feltham Industrial School	37
			Park Row Industrial School, Bristol	2
			Red Hill Reformatory	12
			St. Conlaths Reformatory, Phillipstown	2
	May 8		Industrial School, London	38	34
1889			Bedfordshire Reformatory	8
			Birkdale Farm School	2
			Bristol Emigration Society	13
			Buxton Reformatory	6
			Cockermouth Industrial School	2
			Red Hill Reformatory	19
			St. Kevin's Reformatory	2
			Saltley Reformatory	3
			West Leamington Reformatory	2
			Whitewill, Mark, Bristol	12

Endnotes:

1. This information was taken from the Sessional Papers for the Government of Canada. Reports were not made for every year and some reports do not contain dates or names of ships.

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