Hi Kaino,

Thank you for sharing your impressions of the unveiling of the British Home Children stamp. For those of us who couldn't be there, you've provided powerful images of why this commemoration is so important.

I can empathize with your frustrations regarding a lack of media attention. If 12% of the current Canadian population are descendents from British Home Children, you would think there would be a greater level of interest and advocacy on their part.

To answer your question about Canada's History magazine... I can report that our editors would have loved to do a more in-depth piece within its printed pages. Unfortunately, when there are only six issues in a year, there is heavy competition amongst all the Canadian history topics, important anniversaries and timely background context pieces. We would love to publish them all, but we can't.

Fortunately, we do have the website and its been designed to allow us to do a bit more in between issues, which is how the British Home Children ended up being our History Spotlight: British Home Children this past July. And why we've set up the forums for our visitors to use. Researchers such as yourself have a vast amount of knowledge about topics that fascinate the rest of us.

Although we weren't able to do more than provide a "history by the numbers" in our June/July issue, we have run articles on Home Children in the past. Our Beaver 's Your Story department ran "The Little Trunk" in the February/March 2004 issue. The Beaver also had a wonderful genealogical mystery, "The Transatlantic Journey," written by Dave De Brou, in April/May 2002.

Both issues are available in the Beaver back issues for sale, but for those who just want to read the articles, click on the title links above.