Co-hosted by the British Consulate-General Toronto and MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam

you are cordially invited to a lunch reception to recognize the Children and their Descendants who arrived through the Child Migration Scheme, known as the British Home Children* to Canada 155 years ago. Our special guest is former MPP Jim Brownell who initiated the Home Child Provincial Day in Ontario.

*The British Home Child was a government program that sent 125,000 poor and desolate children from Great Britain and Ireland to Canada as indentured labourers to work on farms and as domestic servants from 1869 to 1939. It is estimated that 12% of the Canadian Population (4 million) are British Home Child descendants, including Ontario Premiers and MPPs.

BRITISH HOME CHILD RECEPTION AGENDA

Thursday, October 24, 2024

12:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

12:35 p.m. Remark from dignitaries

There will be the opportunity to attend the reading of Members Statements and Question Period from 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Guests will be recognized by MPPs in the House.

Following the lunch reception will be an opportunity to view the documentary film FORGOTTEN (42 min.) at 1:15 p.m. with a Q&A with filmmaker, M. Eleanor McGrath.

Queen’s Park

Main Legislative Building

Rooms 228 and 230

Please Note: Photo ID is required for security protocol.