The BRUTAL Choice Victorians gave The Poor - Fight for Food or Get shipped to Canada

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@FactFeast 3 ай бұрын

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@mamasinger49 3 ай бұрын

Another great informative and entertaining video. Sad how people had to work themselves so hard to just exist on the bare minimum and even less than the bare minimum.

@FactFeast 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Mamasinger.

@TomPVideo 3 ай бұрын

The Edwardian Era wasn't all fun and games either. My ancestors paid £20 for transportation from England to Manitoba to be farmers. But when they got there, the plot of land was a treed, rocky and undeveloped prairie. But the ticket home was £400 so that was how my family came to Canada (and turned 160 acres of Manitoba into farmland).

@gm2407 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like a better life than grinding urban poverty and then going to World War I. I am sure it was very hard work though. Even in the 1960s UK was exporting people to Australia (£10 Poms) to get them to settle and work parcels of land.

@Laurell_Silentshade 3 ай бұрын

I was already aware of the Home Children sent to Canada, but I appreciate this video explaining that entire families were strongly encouraged to go by an adjacent philanthropic scheme. This sheds a whole new consideration on how my great great grandfather along with his family ended up here. He could very well have attended one of these union gatherings. Thanks!

@69JONESYrugby 3 ай бұрын

Canada was a fine country, full of scenery, fresh air, and mild summers.

@lynnemurphy-jc8ti 3 ай бұрын

LOVE this channel 💚✍️

@FactFeast 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for supporting my channel Lynne!

@sarahhall738 3 ай бұрын

In last 1890s grandmas grandparents took her mother and siblings to Winnipeg being there before the railroad. Crops failed they moved to flushing meadows new York where father was involved in a shooting accident and died so the family moved back to England and mama set up a shop in Epping forest where the hop picking London families were heading past. We still wonder how they never ended up in the workhouse

@bobcosmic 3 ай бұрын

The Victorians sent people on a one way ticket to Canada? Before that the English sent their undesirables to America & when the colonists started to rebel the U.K. government then started to send undesirables to Australia but I never knew about the Victorians sending people to Canada until know. Thanks Fact Feast

@LeahDyson-kq4bd 3 ай бұрын

They sent them to Canada they wanted to make it more anglo they didn't want French dominating

@bobcosmic 3 ай бұрын

@@LeahDyson-kq4bdTotally understandable when you put it like that. Thanks for replying.

@jeremybeau8334 3 ай бұрын

England the most evil empire in the history of mankind.

@JoeBrown-b7w 3 ай бұрын

I think there was big fur trade in canada in them times

@jen-ms4xo 3 ай бұрын

@JoeBrown-b7w yeah I believe you're right this is sad to me but like I tell everyone history repeats itself over and over

@janetturner5467 3 ай бұрын

Really like hearing about our earlier times.

@jen-ms4xo 3 ай бұрын

Me to not sure if this is my first time watching this channel but I think if I can get through this one I might subscribe I love history as history repeats itself over and over

@jen-ms4xo 3 ай бұрын

I haven't seen a video from your channel in a very long time in fact I forgot I had subscribed to your channel I wish you could put out something about how California was first Mexico

@FactFeast 3 ай бұрын

Welcome back!

@spencerwong4464 3 ай бұрын

Men? Women too!! I live in Australia and my relatives were convicts AND A WOMAN!!

@markharrison9544 3 ай бұрын

Now people wish they could live in a place like Canada. They seem to take care of their people for the most part. I know some disabled people there and they get their rent paid and 1200 dollars extra to pay bills and eat. Not the greatest but seriously better than most countries.

@brianoneil9662 3 ай бұрын

Off o Canada? Well, a bit chilly, but good maple syrup. Excellent as always good sir!

@FactFeast 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Brian.

@GG-hu9dn 3 ай бұрын

Tories are as bad today as they were, then it appears?!

@jamesoneill5070 3 ай бұрын

A couple of my relatives were sent to Canada in the British Home Child Scheme. One on the ship Victoria leaving Liverpool on the 4th of April 1906 aged 13 and the other on 22nd April 1910 from Liverpool aged 15.

@Khatoon170 3 ай бұрын

Thank you sir for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. I learned new vocabularies and new information with every video you are posting. Shipping is term used for communication to refer to desire or two characters often romantic relationships with each other. Honestly immigration is common in every countries for several years to seek knowledge, or better job opportunities , political refugees , asylum seeker because of security country situation. Actually and Australia both countries offer excellent opportunities and high standards of living, might be better choice for those who prefer more inclusive immigration policy and Multi cultural environment especially immigration to Canada. Many British expats can earn more money doing same jobs in Australia than they could at home , while minimum wages of each country are comparable, professionals can often secure better money . In reign of queen victoria ( 1837- 1900) marked period of growth change for Sydney, for New South Wales and Australia as whole . With arrival of steam ships and coast to coast trans Canada railway English increasingly sought agricultural opportunities to had in prairie provinces. Many people left England to Canada, most of them orphaned, abandoned, pauper children. ( majority of them are English) were given free passage to Canada .

@Khatoon170 3 ай бұрын

Sorry imean all countries. Canada and Australia . I wrote in hurry.

@FactFeast 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching Khatoon.

@abdulseaforth6930 3 ай бұрын

Good ol’ days

@LeahDyson-kq4bd 3 ай бұрын

You wouldn't last a day in those days lol

@abdulseaforth6930 3 ай бұрын

@@LeahDyson-kq4bd to right I wouldn’t!

@matthays716 3 ай бұрын

One on eleven Canadians is a descendant of at least one Bernardo’s home child

@mijiyoon5575 3 ай бұрын

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@FactFeast 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Miji 😊

@marlenaAKAmarz 3 ай бұрын

Apparently today the homeless are being sent to Hawaii

@MegaLivingIt 3 ай бұрын

Gads, poor people; pillar to post, but turns out it was so much nicer in the countries they went to.

@rdhudon7469 3 ай бұрын

Not in Canada . An indentured servant was treated like a slave in N America and most indentured children did not make it to adulthood. They were treated substantially worse.

@jen-ms4xo 3 ай бұрын

@@rdhudon7469slavery is still happening today

@Curlyblonde 3 ай бұрын

Basically a miserable Victorian Era Version of The Hunger Games. Social problems and overpopulation of the poor were typically handled by the frequent nonsensical wars that happened on a regular basis throughout Europe and elsewhere that were perpetuated by squabbling Royal Families who were all related. When that wasn't enough, the prisons, slums and workhouses sent their excess numbers to the colonies as a social relief strategy to keep the population manageable and avoid widespread crime, hunger, homelessness and ultimately uprisings that would threaten the monarchy and social order of society. The various Monarchies learned an important lesson about keeping a wary eye on the social & economic conditions of their countries and their populations as they feared a repeat of the French Revolution. Even today governments are quick to intervene and provide relief in a poor economy to avoid widespread hunger, abject poverty and crime which could ignite widespread social unrest and anarchy. Of course wars and military campaigns continue without interruption, to provide a socially acceptable outlet as well.