Mission
To bring the true stories of the British Home Children to light, to maintain their memory and to reunite the families separated by the child migrant schemes.
Our work has recently featured in:
April 2019 our BHC Registry ranked #4 out of 14 top sites for finding records of orphanages and children's homes
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? APRIL 2019
July of 2017, WDYTYA magazine gave our web sites an an honorable mention in the Best Canadian Web sites for researching your Canadian Roots.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? JULY 2017
In 2016 Your Family Tree Magazine ranked our British Home Children in Canada site as the number 2 online source for researching your Canadian roots, calling the site "impressive".
Beacons of Light
British Home Children & Child Migrants
International Sesquicentennial Tribute
2019 marks the 150th year since the first BHC arrived in Canada. The BHCARA and descendants reached out to hundreds of communities and venues across Canada, Scotland and England to participate in the Beacons of Light for BHC tribute by illuminating memorials, monuments, buildings or other areas with the colours of the BHCARA. The response was overwhelming with over 230 tributes paid to the BHC. Illuminations included the iconic Niagara Fall in Ontario, Toronto's CN Tower, The Northern Lights Display in Vancouver and St Andrews House - Head Quarters of the Scottish Government in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her Majesty the Queen has sent a letter of support for the work of BHCARA and our Beacon tribute. This symbolic gesture showed the world how proud we are of the resiliency of the BHC, Canada's nation builders, while paying tribute to those who died young.
To learn more about this historic tribute visit our tribute page: From Castles to Waterfalls
About Us
Awards & Recognition
The BHCARA is an international organization which strives to catalogue Home Child information and Home Children stories, to reconnect families unjustly torn apart by these migrant programs and to promote the story of the Home Children across the world. It is the first organization to use the social media to promote the BHC story with unprecedented and unparalleled success.
ON OUR BOARD:
CEO: Ms. Lori Oschefski Click for her bio
Consultant/advisor : Mr. Perry Snow, B. A. (Hon), M. A. Clinical Psychologist (Retired)
Registry Administrator: Mrs.LeeAnn Beer
Honorary Patron: British Home Child - the LateJohn Vallance. Mr. Vallance donated the funding to start the organization in 2012.
BHCARA indexes
3 November, 2016
2016 OMA Awards of Excellence Recipient for Excellence in Exhibit, presented to the Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto for the exhibit "Breaking the Silence", created in partnership with the BHCARA
New project launched for 2020
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12 May, 2016
CEO of BHCARA Lori Oschefski, Ivy Sucee (Hazelbrae Barnardo Home Memorial Group) ,Sidney Baker (Home Children Canada, Western Branch) and Ali Thompson all from Canada, represented the British Home Children at Barnardo's 150th Anniverary Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.
November 2015
CEO Lori Oschefski nominated for the Orillia Museum of Art and History Historical Award.
Click on image to hear our October 2017 interview on CBC's The National
CEO Lori Oschefski has been personally involved in working with families of BHC since 2007, with two widely recognized prior projects.
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February 2020 Newsletter
Featuring BHC George Paginton,
a renowned Canadian Artist
And a new book by our Andrew Simpson
"The Ever Open Door - 150 Years of the Together Trust"
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