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and activities of the BHCARA

Past Events

Most events feature the 2015 OMAH Historical Award Nominated Author & British Home Child expert Lori Oschefski President of Home Children Canada

We would like to thank each and every single location for hosting our display and/or our presentations. You guys are a huge help in getting the word out about the British Home Children!!

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Black Creek Pioneer Village

partnership from 2013 to present

 

2017 Events 

  • WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY January 2017

  • Freedom Talk Radio - live from Scotland Jan 2017

  • The Toronto Ward Museum Census Workshop Mar 2017

  • Commemoration of Vimy Ridge at the Barrie Legion

  • Caledon East and District Historical Society

  • Vaughan Township Historical Society

  • Pier 21 in Halifax - Toronto Ward Museum

  • Fresh Start Foundation Conference, Scotland, Video

  • Bradford Public Library exhibit

  • Bradford Public Library - evening presentation

  • the official private opening of the new Canadian History Hall at the Canadian Museum of History

  • Nottawasaga Inn Probus

  • Waterloo Region Museum & Doon Heritage Village

  • London, Ontario Western Fair

  • Dufferin County Museum & Archives

  • Park Lawn Cemetery BHC Monument Dedication

  • Display at the Orillia Public Library "People of Orillia"

  • The Veterans' Classic , The Raceway at the Western Fair District

  • University of Waterloo Renison College

  • Bolton and District PROBUS Club

  • Orillia Public Library, Student Remembrance Event
     

2018 Events

  • Probus Etobicoke Club

  • Bracebridge Probus Club

  • Harriston Library 

  • Wellinngton County Historical Society

  • Kitchener Public Library Genealogy Fair

  • Colonel John Butler (CJB) Branch of the United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada

  • Champlain Seniors Service Club - Orillia, Ontario

  • Beaverton Thorah Eldon Historical Society

  • Orillia Public Library Family History Festival

  • Waterloo Region Museum

  • London Western Fair

  • Gravenhurst Probus Club

  • Hamilton Public Library

  • Historical Automobile Society of Ontario 

  • Orillia Public Library 3 day Remembrance event

Past Event Locations

2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Events

  • Black Creek Pioneer Village 2014, 2015, 2016

  • Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

  • Upper Canada Village 2013

  • Orangeville Public Library 2012, 2013 & 2014

  • Wellington County Museum

  • Richmond Hill Public Library

  • Niagra Branch OGS

  • Ottawa Public Library

  • Clarington's Agricultural Heritage

  • Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library

  • Barrie Public Library

  • Barrie Legion 2014 2x, 2015

  • Barrie Historical Society 2015

  • Simcoe County Historical Society 2015

  • Newmarket Public Library

  • Curtain Club, Richmond Hill

  • Peterborough Public Library

  • Orillia Historical Society 2013

  • The Sparrow Lake Historical Society

  • Millbrook Historical Society

  • One World- One Family Conferance - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints the, Brampton Ontario Stake 2014, 2015 August

  • 4th Line Theater, Millbrook, Ontario 2014

  • Kawartha Lakes

  • Peoples Church

  • Hamilton, Ontario book Launch 2014

  • Calgary Public Library 2014

  • The Beach Celtic Festival 2014

  •  Northridge Community Church, Newmarket 2014

  • Scottish SIG Symposium 2014

  • Toronto Roman Catholic School Board 2014

  • Orillia Public Library 2013, 2014 & 2015

  • Meaford Speaker's Series 2014

  • Ontario Genealogical Society 2014

  • North Emily Women's Inst. 2014

  • Newmarket Historical Society 2014

  •  Painswick Library Branch    

  • Orillia Rotary Club 2015

  • The Royal Canadian Legion 2014 & 2015

  • The White Lions Tea House 2015

  • Mono Mills United Church 2015

  • Muskoka Boat and Heritage Center 2015

  • St. John's Church - Men's Breakfast Club 2015

  • Sparrow Lake Historical Society 2015

  • Uxbridge Historical Society & Uxbridge Genealogy Group 2015

  • Etobicoke Historical Society - 2015

  • Shelbourne Public Library - 2015

  • HOMECHILD the Musical - 2013, 2015

 

2016 Events

 

  • Woods Park Retirement Home - 2016

  • Simcoe County Branch of OGS - Barrie - 2016

  • Canadian Legion - Erin, Ontario - 2016

  • Orillia Public Library 2016 Exhibt and Quilt show

  • Orangeman's Lodge - Newton Robinson 2016

  • Barrie - Huronia Probus Club 2016

  • Private Bus Tour of Black Creek Exhibit 2016

  • White Lions Tea House 2016

  •  Beaverton branch of Brock township Library

  • Barnardo's Children's Church Tea 2016

  • North York Historical Society 2016

  • Stratford Perth County Branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario 2016

  • Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, Toronto 2016

  • Palgrave Unite Church 2016

  • Rotary Club of Etobicoke 2016

  • Pier 21, Halifax 2016

  • Maple Leaf Women's Probus in Newmarket July 2016

  • Centre-Wellington Probus July 2016

  • Millennium Library - Winnipeg August 2016

  • Folklarama Winnipeg - August 2016

  • Rotary Club of Barrie - August 2016

  • Innisfil Historical Society - Sept. 2016

  • Black Creek Pioneer Village 2016 BHC Day

  • Family History Festival Orillia Public Library  Oct 2016 table hosted by Carol Black

  • St. Andrews Presbyterian, Guelph, Ontario Oct 2016
    speaker: John Jefkins

  • Ramara Historical Society, Udney, Oct 2016

  • Georgina Pioneer Village, Georgina Ont Oct 2016

  • Orillia Rememberance Event -OPL, Nov 2016, tables hosted by JoAnn Clark and Susan Hall

  • Black Creek Pioneer Village

 

 

 

​2020/2021 Events
Due to Covid 19 in-person events were
canceled for 2020 and 2021. We expect
there will be no in-person events in early 2022 

  • Barrie, Ontario school presentation (before Covid)

  • Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives (before Covid)

  • Release of "The Forgotten Home Child". #1 on the Canadian Best Sellers list for 11 weeks. Lori Oschefski served as the historical consultant

  • Zoom Presentation with Genevieve Graham, author of The Forgotten Home Child

  • Made 300 BHC masks for members

  • Released our "Beacons of Light" 2019 Tribute Book

  • After 6 years of lobbying, Veterans Affairs Canada formally acknowledged the service of our BHC in the Wars

  • We saved 661 Huron Street, Toronto from the wrecking ball, formally the receiving home for Waif and Stray's girls.

  • Lori Oschefski & Dan Oatman attended the drive by birthday party for BHC George Beardshaw mid Sept 2020

  • For BHC Day, we initiated our Grave Commemoration, we had hundreds of BHC graves visited and commemorated - 2020 and also repeated in 2021

  • 2021 reunited our last 2 surviving Barnardo Boys, George Beardshaw and Cyril Hewitt - both came in the same party of children

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2019 Events - BHC 150

  • Probus Bracebridge, Ontario

  • Black Creek Pioneer Village Madge Gill Embroidery workshop - working in conjunction with England's Madge Gill Exhibit a the William Morris Museum

  • Hamilton Genealogy Club

  • Windermere Women's Institute, Muskoka

  • Barrie, Ontario event Ferndale Banquet Hall

  •  Ontario Genealogical Conference

  • Tillsonburg Legion, Tillsonburg, Ontario

  • Probus - Parry Sound Canado College 

  • Orillia Public library - Greet the Public

  • ALLISTON LADIES PROBUS

  • Madge Gill Walking Tour of Peterborough, 

  • BHC 150 Family Reunion Orillia Public Library

  • Bradford, Ontario Probus Club

  • Milford Bay Community Centre

  • Barrie Genealogy Fair

  • 7th KPL Genealogy Fair Kitchener Portillo's Empire Journey Public Library

  • How to Research British Home Children" Workshop in Oakville, Ontario

  • How to Research BHC in Hamilton, Ontario

  • Orillia Military event November 7 – 9

  • Hamilton Public Library’s 2019 Genealogy Fair

  • Ladies Lunch in Barrie, Ontario

  • London, Ontario Veterans’ Classic

  • Appeared in Portillo's Empire Journey, an England TV program 

  • September 28th historic Beacons of Light - over 240 organizations across Canada and the UK paid tribute to our British Home Children
    https://www.britishhomechildren.com/beacons-of-light-2019

  • Celebrating George Beardshaw's Birthday

  • Rogers TV Interview

  • Month-long large exhibit at the Orillia Public Library for BHC 150th

  • Lori Oschefski worked as the historical consultant on "The Forgotten Home Child" released in 2020

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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. Accepting the award at a gala dinner was Jennifer Harrington, Curator Collections BCPV and CEO of the BHCARA, Lori Oschefski

2015 Barrie Legion, Barrie Historical Association & Simcoe County Historical Association

Bradford Public Library 2017 exhibit

Black Creek Pioneer Village long term exhibt.
Awarded the 2016 Ontario Museum Association Award of Excellence in Exhibitions

Opened again in 2017 for our 4th year

The BHCARA has an extensive collection of information and artifacts for display purposes. Our exhbits include our 2016 Memory Quilt which has been shown across Canada and England.

The BHCARA has been the main contributer of information and artifacts for a long term BHC exhibit at the Canadian Musuem of History, Canadian Immigration Hall, 100 Laurier Street
Gatineau, QC K1A 0M8. 

Our first exhibit in Bradford, Ontario 2012

Richmond Hill Public Library Exhbit

We are available or special events and short term exhibits as well. 

 

Contact us at info@BritishHomeChildren.com

Orillia Public Library 2016 exhibit

Orangeville Public Library 2014

Orillia Public Library

Hockey icon Don Cherry 2014 - Opening of Breaking The Silence exhibit at Black Creek, with Mr. Cherry is
Jennifer Harrington and Lori Oschefski

Winnipeg, Manitoba Folklorama 2016

Although our artifacts are generally available for exhibits in Ontario, we are happy to work with other organizations providing information for exhibits across the world. 

 

Our quilt is available for short term loans across Canada. Contact us at info@BritishHomeChildren.com for information. Postage and insurance must be covered. 

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