Upcoming Events

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Crossing the Golden Bridge:
Voices of the Barnardo Children (British Home Children)

Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
La Grange de la Gatineau, 80 ch. Summer, Cantley QC

Speaker: Allan Thompson

Allan has been the head of Carleton University’s journalism program since 2020. He joined Carleton in 2003 after 17 years as a reporter with the Toronto Star, where he specialized in covering foreign policy, defence and immigration.

More than 100,000 "British Home Children" from poor and destitute families were sent to Canada between 1869 and 1939. Most were designated as orphans but two-thirds had a parent in Britain, many of whom lived in workhouses. Britain shipped these children to its colonies through different charities with the promise the children would have a better life abroad. Many Home Children ended up as farm hands and domestic servants. Some were exploited and others adopted into families. Dozens ended up on farms in the Gatineau region including at least 23 identified in Cantley, as shown in this article.

Crossing the Golden Bridge: Voices of the Barnardo Children, is based on Allan's interviews with surviving "Bernardo Children", children brought to Canada by the Barnardo charity. Their experiences were shared by Home Children everywhere.

Allan first created this presentation as a radio documentary based on one of his first major pieces he attempted as the final project of his Bachelor of Journalism degree at Carleton University in 1986. It was never broadcast. After September 28th was designated as British Home Child Day in Canada, Thompson returned to his original material to turn the documentary into this fascinating audio-visual presentation.

His presentation is in English.
Please register if you plan to attend - info.cantley1889@gmail.com.

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Special Tour of Cantley’s Gatineau Satellite Station

Saturday, October 4 at 10 am - 75 Chemin McClelland.

For Cantley 1889 members.

Registration: info.cantley1889@gmail.com
Because the satellite station has high security protection, please inform us if you are not a Canadian citizen.

See article Cantley’s Gatineau Satellite Station...How it came to be by Hubert McClelland.

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Annual General Meeting

Wednesday October 22, 7 p.m. ~ via Zoom

Registration: info.cantley1889@gmail.com

Non-members are welcome.

The annual report will be distributed. Elections will be held for our Board of Directors.
Nominations are open to all members until October 22, 2025.

Please consider becoming a volunteer or joining our Board of Directors.

See poster.