They are always a fascinating glimpse into its work with the destitute and often exploited young people of our city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when it was known as the Manchester & Salford Boys’ and Girls’ Refuges.*
And those of us interested in British Home Children it is doubly exciting when the Blog touches on its involvement in the migration of children to Canada.
So today it features amongst other things the document of agreement which all young people had to sign. The Certificate of Consent was signed “before local Justices of the Peace prior to emigration, to state they were happy to be taken to Canada.”
As such it is another of those pieces of original source material which helps provide a link to those young people.
*http://togethertrustarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/life-in-grenfell-Saskatchewan.html#more
Picture; group of boys from Manchester in Grenfell Saskatchewan, courtesy of the Together Trust
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