Library: Canada

ID Code Title Author Description Home(s)
13992 CAN1 Apologising for Serious Wrongdoing: Social, Psychological, and Legal Considerations Susan Alter, Researcher, Law Commission of Canada, May 1999 The paper discusses why apologies are necessary, what goes into making a meaningful apology and compares apologies made in court based and non-court based legal processes. -
13993 CAN2 Home Children Canada Newsletters May & August, 2001 Two newsletters from May 2001 & August 2001 by Home Children Canada an organisation for former child migrants founded by David & Kay Lorente. BICA Farm & Dr. Barnardo's' charity
13994 CAN3 Institutional Child Abuse in Canada: Criminal Cases Goldie Shea, Law Commission of Canada, October 1999 A research paper containing lists of criminal cases involving allegations of institutional child abuse in Canada. St Joseph’s Training School for Boys, Grandview School for Girls and more
13995 CAN4 The Little Immigrants – The Orphans Who Came to Canada Kenneth Bagnell, The Dundurn Press, 2001 The book is a tale of compassion and courage of the 100,000 impoverished children sent to Canada from the British Isles known as the “Home Children”. Barnardo Homes, The Fegan Receiving Home in Toronto, Quarrier’s Fairknowe Home in Ontario and more
13996 CAN5 Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search For A Stolen Identity Perry Snow, Universal Publishers, 2000 The book describes how difficult it was retrieving vital information on his Father’s identity and birth. His Father was a part of the British Child Emigration Scheme in Canada known as The Home Children. Church of England Waifs and Strays Society
13997 CAN6 Passing Innocence – A novel Francis Dwyer, Trafford Publishing, 2002 The book defines the experience of growing up in a Canadian residential institution. Wood’s Christian Home for Children
13998 CAN7 My Father’s House – A Memoir of Incest and of Healing Sylvia Fraser, Virago Press, 1989 As an adult Sylvia had no recollection of a sexual relationship with her father, yet some connection remained - pain, terror and guilt. With eloquence, candour and courage Sylvia breaks through her amnesia to discover and embrace the other self she left behind. -
13999 CAN8 Who Says I Can’t? Catherine DeVrye, Bantam, 2005 A memoir of how an abandoned child then adopted by loving parents in Canada decided to search for her biological parents as an adult. -
14000 CAN9 Restoring Dignity: Responding to Child Abuse in Canadian Institutions – Executive Summary Law Commission of Canada, March 2000 Executive summary in both French and English. -
14001 CAN10 Needs and Expectations for Redress of Victims of Abuse Sage, Law Commission of Canada, 1998 A final report submitted to the Law Commission of Canada on the needs and expectations for redress of victims of abuse at residential schools. -
14002 CAN11 Institutional Child Abuse in Canada: Civil cases Prepared by Goldie M. Shea for the Law Commission of Canada, October 1999 Contains reported cases, unresolved cases and residential school litigation statistics. -
14003 CAN12 Review of The Needs of Victims of Institutional Child Abuse Submitted by the Institute for Human Resource Development to the Law Commission of Canada, 16th October 1998 A final report of the needs of Victims of Institutional abuse. -