Charlie: A Home Child's Life in Canada

Written by Beryl Young

Narrated by Beryl Young

The story of the 100,000 British children who came to Canada as child immigrants between 1870 and 1938 is not well known. Yet the descendants of these “Home Children” number over four million people in Canada today. The author is one of them. Charlie was her father.

Charlie is a compelling account of an English boy who is sent to an orphanage following the death of his father because his heartbroken mother is too poor to feed her children. Separated from his family, Charlie works his way out of poverty to eventually become a high-ranking member of the RCMP. Charlie’s story, like many others, is an inspiring part of our Canadian heritage, and will fascinate adults as well as children.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press
• Release date: Jan 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9781927817735

Beryl Young

Beryl Young is the author of the best-selling young adult novel Wishing Star Summer (Raincoast, 2001) and Charlie: A Home Child's Life in Canada (Key Porter, 2009 — available from Ronsdale Press as of spring 2011). She is a member of the Federation of BC Writers, the Children's Writers and Illustrators of BC, the Writers' Union of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Authors, Illustrators and Performers.