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One of the most famous placement agencies was established by Dr. Thomas Barnardo , and Barnardo homes is often used generically to describe all home children.

Some children were welcomed into loving homes, others were exploited as cheap agricultural labour and others were further victimized.

About 100,000 home children arrived in Canada during this period, stopping only for economic reasons during the Great Depression of the 1930s .


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