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Fegan Homes [textual records, graphic material]

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Date:

1885-1939.

Reference:

2018-00450-6

BAN no.:

2018-00450-6

Type of material:

Photographs, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5099755

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Date(s):

1885-1939.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

42 cm textual records.
40 photographs : b&w.

Language of material:

English

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This material consists of 6 bound volumes and additional loose files comprising approximately 4500 textual case files relating to British home children sent to Canada through Fegan Homes from 1885 to 1939. These registers document names, year of arrival, age, address of farm they were sent to, and comments made by Fegan Homes representatives to ensure that boys were being taken care of properly. The comments generally relate to aspects of the boys' personalities, temperament, ability to get along with the family they had been placed with, as well as observations about health. In addition there are also items of correspondence scattered throughout the registers relating to various Fegan boys. This correspondence varies from inquiries from Veterans Affairs to correspondence from boys after they'd left the care of Fegan Homes. At the end of each register is an index listing those boys who enlisted in the military, along with, where available, their rank, company, battalion, regimental number, address and a few notes, such as whether they were killed in action.

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Custodial history:

Received from Irene Fry.

Source:

Private

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R15656-0-0-E
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