A new (April 2008) web-based multimedia exhibition on the migration of Home Children from Scotland to Canada.
You can find out more here.
And visit the exhibition here.

The Ships List has information about the ships on which the home children travelled

Library and Archives Canada home children database (ships' passenger lists)

History of the Barnardo's homes

William Quarrier Home Children Association

Young Immigrants to Canada has information on British home children in Canada

tweetybirdgenealogy has ships' passenger lists of home children - particularly those brought to Marchmont House in Belleville, Ontario, some of which are not in the LAC

Many Home Children, including Middlemore children, were brought to Canada from a workhouse or to escape going into a workhouse. For information on workhouses, both general and specific, and photographs from all over Great Britain, visit Peter Higginbotham's Web site.

Rossbret Workhouses Website also has information on workhouses and photographs from all over Great Britain.

For information on old Birmingham; e.g., housing, health, history and social conditions, as well as newspaper extracts and photographs, visit the Aston University Web site.

The British Home Children Society Web Site

Merseyside Maritime Museum - Maritime Archives & Library Information Sheet on Child Emigration. This information sheet looks at child emigration from the 17th to the mid 20th centuries. It provides a useful bibliography and looks at the societies concerned with these children.

Home Children booklist (A BIFHSGO Library brochure).

The following are selections from the BIFHSGO Library, or contain links to sources:

Marchmont: distributing home, Belleville, Ontario, 1870-1925, by James S. Gilchrist, Epic Press/Essence Publishing (2003), ISBN 1553065719

Celtic Odyssey, by William R. Price, Dorrance & Co., Philadelphia, 1970, [out of print]

Labouring Children: British immigrant apprentices to Canada 1869-1924, by Joy Parr, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1994 (reprint)

The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada, by Kenneth Bagnell, MacMillan of Canada (1981), ISBN: 077159593x

The Home Children: Their Personal Stories, Phyllis Harrison, ed., Phyllis Harrison, ed., Winnipeg, MB: J. Gordon Shillingford, 1979/2003, ISBN 0-920486-15-0

Middlemore Memories: Tales of the British Home Children, by Michael Anthony Staples

The Victorian Workhouse, by Trevor May, Shire Publications Ltd (2002)

The Workhouse: A Social History, by Norman Longmate, American version Pimlico, March 2004, ISBN 0712606378