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Sorrow of the children shipped to Canada all alone5 October 2026Angela FergusonNorth WestHome Children CanadaSiblings Rose and Fred Shapcott, pictured on their admission to Barnardo's in 1891, were among those sent away to CanadaWhen 10-year-old Rose Shapcott and her brother Fred, 14, were orphaned and put into a Barnardo's children's home in 1891, little did they know they would end up being separated and sent thousands of miles away across the Atlantic. The siblings were sent to Canada as part of the British Home Children child migration programme, which saw about 100,000 impoverished children from Britain sent to overseas colonies including Canada, between 1869 and the 1940s. These children were separated from their families and sent off to Canada as a source of cheap labour, often suffering mistreatment at the hands of those who took them in, said Rose's great grandson Malcolm Farrow. Farrow said Fred was sent to Saskatchewan first and then Rose asked to be sent over when she was 17, thinking they would be reunited. Instead, she was sent thousands of miles away to Peterborough in Ontario and went on to have "a very sad life", Farrow revealed.

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The 20th annual Cape to Cabot road race is taking place tomorrow. The grueling 20 km trek sees participants running from one historic landmark to another: From Cape Spear to Cabot Tower on top of Signal Hill. The race starts at 8 a.m., and because of that there are a few related road closures in St. John’s. Between 7:45 and 11a.m. there will be numerous road closures along the route. A full list can be found online at VOCM dot com. Expect traffic impacts from 7:45 a.m. to 11 a.m. on routes including Blackhead Road, Southside Road, Water Street, Harbour Drive, Duckworth Street, Temperance Street and Signal Hill Road.