The British Home Children arrived in Canada between 1869 and 1948, with the promise of leaving behind marginalized and impoverished conditions in the United Kingdom for a better life in Canada. When Britain, and then Can-ada entered the First World War many of those British Home Children who retained a sense of connection and loyalty to their homelands, both new and old, enlisted in the Canadian military.
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