Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada -(SIGNED)- by Bagnell, Kenneth -(signed)- - 1980

Toronto: Macmillan and Co.,, 1980. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Brown cloth with gilt on spine, 271 pages plus 16 pages of b & w photos, SIGNED "Remembrances from the past and the very best wishes of Kenneth Baggnell, & dated" (no names), Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear. "Between 1870 & the depression of the 1930's more than 80,000 children from the British Isles journeyed to Canada in an extraordinary but almost forgotten odyssey. Some came from the streets of London & Liverpool where they lived by their wits; others were taken from loving families who could no longer provide for them. Often with no choice in the decision, they were sent to Canada by well-meaning philanthropists in what seemed the perfect solution to a dual problem: what to do with tens of thousands of children from the slums of Britain who had no future there, and how to meet the need for cheap labour on Canadian farms. Above all., this is the story of the children themselves, many of them still alive & able to recall, in vivid & poignant detail, what it was like to be uprooted from familiar surroundings & sent to live amidst a nation of strangers." Check out the scans. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Illus. by James Hill. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.