Marjorie Her War Years (eBook)

A British Home Child in Canada

Patricia Skidmore (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
288 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-4168-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Sent away from her family and England to an isolated farm where she was at the mercy of a tyrannical “cottage mother,” Marjorie Arnison had to learn to forget her identity in order to survive in her unfamiliar and hostile new home. It was only much later in her life that the memories of where she came from began to resurface.

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Her family broken apart and her identity taken away, she had to forget her past in order to face her future. But forgetting isn't forever.Taken from their mother s care and deported from England to the colonies, ten-year-old Marjorie Arnison and her nine-year-old brother, Kenny, were sent to the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School on Vancouver Island in September 1937. Their eight-year-old sister, Audrey, followed the next August. Marjorie's new home was on an isolated farm a cottage she shared with at least ten other girls and a cottage mother at the head, who had complete control over her children. Survival required sticking to bare essentials. Marjorie had to accept a loss, which was difficult to forgive. Turning inward, she would find strength to pull her through, but she had to lock away her memories in order to endure her new life. Marjorie was well into her senior years before those memories resurfaced.

Autor

Patricia Skidmore is the daughter of a British child migrant. She lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

Inhalt

Foreword
Introduction: There Is No One More Vulnerable Than a Child
Chapter 1: Winifred’s Children
Chapter 2: A Difficult Year
Chapter 3:Bunny's Birthday
Chapter 4: Exiled: A One-Way Ticket to Nowhere
Chapter 5 : I Ain't Gonna Be a Farmer's Wife
Chapter 6: A Partial Eclipse
Chapter 7: Little Farmers
Chapter 8: Off to Fintry: Now What Did I Do Wrong?
Chapter 9: A Bad Home Is Better Than Any Institution
Chapter 10: Fintry or Fairbridge?
Chapter 11: For Now and Evermore
Chapter 12: I Think I Can … Make it …
Chapter 13: Bullies! It's Not Fair!
Chapter 14:Christmas Eve: Survival Is the Most Important Thing
Chapter 15: Why Would I Go Back? My Country Didn't Want Me
Afterword (Afterwards): Peace in Marjorie's Senior Years
Acknowledgements
Appendix A: Fairbridge the Founder
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.8.2018
• Vorwort: Gordon Brown
• Zusatzinfo: notes
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Apology • British Child Migrants • Child Abuse • Child migration • children • colonies • Fairbridge Farm School • Fairbridge Society • Family • farm school • Home Child • Imperial Investment • Kingsley Fairbridge • Orphans • Poverty • Prince of Wales • Rex Weyler • servants • Shame • Survivors • Youth
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-4168-4 / 1459741684
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-4168-3 / 9781459741683