So I runs acrosst this mention of “Home Children” in Canada: more than 100,000 children sent to Canada during the Child Emigration Movement. I think, “Child Emigration Movement?” Sure enough, there’s a whole history of settling the colonies with orphan (or as orphan as they needed to be) children.

Many of the children were sent to “farm schools,” which lends a whole spooky air to the day care I attended of the same name (they had a sheep and some chickens).