British Home Children in Huron County
Join Curator of Engagement & Dialogue Sinead Cox for a presentation on the experiences of British migrant children placed in Huron County between the 1860s and the 1940s as farm labourers and domestic help.
This presentation is FREE or by donation. You can donate using the museum’s donation box in the lobby for cash and change, or via our Tip/Tap/Pay machine via card. Donations can also be made at the cash register at the front desk. Please note that seating in the theatre is limited and by a first come basis.
Please note that the stories shared may include discussion of child abuse and suicide.
This presentation and others are available as museum outreach.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Sinead is an artefact with a Huron County provenance. As Curator of Engagement & Dialogue, she leads special events, educational programs and group tours. She also offers outreach programs throughout the county. Starting as a volunteer and summer student, Sinead has worked at the museum since 2011, and she’s served quite some time in gaol with our annual ‘Behind the Bars’ night tours, occasionally as a nineteenth-century vagrant. After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Leeds in Yorkshire, England, Sinead received a Master’s degree in Public History from Carleton University. The Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol featured heavily in her Major Research Essay, which examined depictions of the poor in rural southwestern Ontario museums.