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Books of Interest

Many of the books in this list can be obtained from booksellers but some are long out of print. I have found that university libraries are more likely to have these types of books but some are available in public libraries. Below you will find that some of the books have Library of Congress numbers after them. This usually means that I found the book in a university library and kept the number for easy reference.

The books range in topics from conditions in London and its social structure to biographies of some of the people involved in child emigration. Books by Bagnell, Harrison and Wagner are the stories of the children themselves. Besides these books there are massive collections of papers at the Library and Archives of Canada as well as government reports from both the Canadian and British governments. The list below is by no means exhaustive.

Apramian, J. The Georgetown Boys. Winona, Ontario: Georgetown Armenia Boys Association, 1976.
Bagnell, Kenneth. The Little Immigrants. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1980.
Barnardo, S.L. and Marchant, James. The Memoirs of the Late Dr. Barnardo. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.
Batt, John H. Dr. Barnardo, Foster Father of Nobody's Children. London: S.W. Partridge, 1904.
Bean, Philip & Melville, Joy. Lost Children of the Empire. London: (Unwin Hyman Ltd., 1989.
Birt, Lilian M. The Children's Home Finder. London: J. Nisbit & Company, 1913. (HV887G7B5x.1913)
Booth, General. In Darkest England And The Way Out. London: Salvation Army. (HV4387.B72)
Bourdillon, A.F.C. Voluntary Social Services: Their Place in the Modern State, London: Methuen & Co., 1945. (HV 245.V64X 1945).
Bradfield, Wm. Life of Thomas Bowman Stephenson. Charles H. Kelly, 1913.
Bready, J. Wesley. Doctor Barnardo, Physician, Pioneer, Prophet. London: Allen & Unwin, 1930.
Bready, J. Wesley. Lord Shaftesbury and Social-Industrial Progress. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1926, Reprinted 1928. (HV 247.S5B7)
Carpenter, Mary. Juvenile Delinquents: Their Condition and Treatment. London: 1853, reprinted Montclair, NJ: 1970. (HV9069C26.1970)
Carpenter, Mary. Reforatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders. originally published, London: 1851, reprinted Montclair, NJ: 1970. (HV9069C3.1970)
Carrothers, W.A. Emigration from the British Isles. London: 1929, pp. 277-8.
Checkland, Olive. Philanthropy in Victorian Scotland: Social Welfare and the Voluntary Principle. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd, 1980. (HV 249.S5C473x.1980)
Climie, John. William Quarrier, The Orphans Friend. c1900. (HV1146W55C5X)
Corbett, Gail H. Barnardo Children in Canada. Peterborough, Ont.: Woodland publishing, 1981.
Cowan, Helen. British Immigration to British North America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Revised 1961. (JV7618.N7C6)
Curnock, Nehemiah. The Story of the Children's Home. Charles H. Kelly, 1901.
Fairbridge, Kingsley. The Autobiography of Kingsley Fairbridge. London: Oxford University Press, 1927.
Fried, Albert and Elman, Richard M.Charles Booth's London. New York: Random House, 1968. (HV4088.L8B77)
Fullerton, W.Y., D.D. J.W.C. Fegan: A tribute. London: year?not known.
Harper, Marjory. Emigration from North East Scotland: Beyond the Broad Atlantic. Aberdeen: 1988.
Harper, Marjory. The Juvenile Immigrant in The Immigrant Experience. C. Kerrigan (ed.). Guelph, 1992.
Harrison, Phyllis. The Home Children. Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer Publishing, 1979.
Heasman, Kathleen. Evangelicals in Action. London: G. Bles, 1962.
Heywood, Jean S. Children in Care. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959, Reprinted 1966. (HV751.A6H58 1965)
Hodder, Edwin. The Life And Work Of The Seventh Earl Of Shaftesbury, K.G.. London: Cassell & Company, 1887.
Humphreys, Margaret. Empty Cradles, London: Doubleday, 1994 ISBN 0-385-40452-2 (hardback) and London : Corgi Books, 1995 ISBN 0-552-14164-X (Paperback)
Jacka, Alan A. The Story of the Children's Home. London: NCH, 1969. (centenary history)
Johnson, Stanley C. A History of Emigration from the United Kingdom to North America 1763-1912. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1913. (JV7618.N7J6)
Kohli, Marjorie P. The Golden Bridge: Young Immigrants to Canada, 1833 - 1939. Toronto: Natural Heritage, 2003.
Magnusson, Anna. The Village: A History of Quarrier's. Scotland: Quarrier Homes, 1984.
Martin, Ernest W., The Book of the Village. London: Phoenix House, 1962. (HN 385.M298)
Martin, Hugh, Christian Social Reformers of the 19th Century. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1927 (reprinted 1970). (HN 385.M3 1970)
McClelland, Vincent Alan. Cardinal Manning, His Public Life and Influence. London: Oxford University Press, 1962. (BX4705.M3M3)
Miller, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. (JV7711.Z79U55 1985)
Money, Agnes L. History of the Girls' Friendly Society. London: Gardner, Darton & Co., 1897. (HS1510G573M6x1897)
Parr, Joy. Labouring Children British Immigration Apprentices to Canada 1869-1924. London: Croom Helm, 1980.
Parr, Gwynth Joy. The Home Children: British Juvenile Immigrants to Canada, 1868-1924. Yale University, unpublished thesis, 1977.
Pinchbeck, Ivy and Hewitt, Margaret. Children In English Society. 2 vols. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
Rooke, Patricia T. and Schnell, R.L. Discarding the Asylum: from child rescue to the welfare state in English Canada (1800-1950). Landham, Md., University Press of America, Inc., 1983. (HV875.7C2R661983)
Rose, J. For the Sake of the Children. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987.
Ross, James. The Power I Pledge. Glasgow: The University Press, 1971.
St. John, Edward. Manning's Work for Children. London: 1929.
Scholes, A.G. Education for Empire Settlement. London: Longmans & Co., 1932. (JV7617.J8S3)
Stephenson, Thomas Bowman. The Story of the Children's Home and Princess Alice Orphanage. 1883.
Sutherland, Neil. Children in English-Canadian Society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976.
Tiffin, Alfred. Loving and Serving, The Life and Work of J.W.C. Fegan. London: Deverell, Gibson & Hoare.
Turner, Wesley B. Miss Rye's Children and the Ontario Press, 1875. in Ontario History (1976), Vol 68(3) p. 174-
Urquhart, Rev. John. The Life Story of William Quarrier: A Boy's Resolve, and What Came of it. London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1900. (HV755A6U7X1900)
Wagner, Gillian. Barnardo. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.
Wagner, Gillian. Children of the Empire. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982.
Wymer, Norman. Father of Nobody's Children. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1954.
Wymer, Norman. Dr. Barnardo. London: Longmans, 1962.

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