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    Quarriers Story: One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada
    Quarriers Story: One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada
    Quarriers Story: One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada
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    Quarriers Story: One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada

    By Anna Magnusson

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    In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow’s infamous slums. A few years later Quarrier’s Village was opened, providing a refuge for the abandoned and the orphaned in the rolling fields of Renfrewshire. Since these beginnings, Quarriers has cared for more than 40,000 children in need. It now runs a diverse range of support and care programs for children, adults, and families in 85 projects across Britain.

    In this book, Anna Magnusson explores the stories of the many people, both past and present, who have helped make Quarriers what it is today and celebrates the achievements of the charity over the past century. The result is a detailed record of the organization’s evolution and an inspiring story of one man’s legacy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateSep 1, 2006
    ISBN9781459712423
    Quarriers Story: One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada
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    Anna Magnusson

    Anna Magnusson is a writer, broadcaster and radio producer. In 2006 she published The Quarriers Story, a history of Quarriers Homes, once the biggest orphanage in Scotland, and now a leading care charity. She also edited The Time of our Lives (Rannoch Press, 2011), a collection of memories of wartime schoolgirls evacuated from Glasgow to Auchterarder. Anna is an award-winning radio producer and broadcaster who has made documentaries all over the world.

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