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Record #23363
Name :
: Issac HARRISON


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Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland
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Date of Arrival
: 29 Mar 1914
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Sicilian

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Agency
: Barnardos
NotesIsaac Harrison immigrated, with a Barnardo group in 1914, when he had just turned 15. He was placed with an elderly couple who ran a greenhouse in Orangeville, Ontario. "You were put out for so much for three years, you see," says Harrison, who now lives in Peterborough, Ontario. "All I got was $100 for three years. You got your board and clothes the first year, $40 your second and the third year you got $60. But you didn't receive that until you were 21. When you left there after three years you got $25."

Harrison wasn?t an orphan. He was put into a Barnardo home when he was 8, after his father died leaving his mother with seven children to raise. "They gave you good training there and kept you in your place," he remembers. "Then when I was 15 they asked if I wanted to come to Canada. What would you do? They tell you this is the land of milk and honey when you?re a kid. It wasn?t."

After his three years at the Orangeville greenhouse, he says, "I didn't stay there. I just cleared right out altogether. I went to a farm outside Orangeville and stayed there three or four years and during the next seven or eight years just worked for different people. I was treated all right at the first place. Not overly good but fair. Oh 'I've seen some kids that were really, knocked around. Some got a really good home and some didn't' 
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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
26479 BLACKBURN, Harrison1891ENG,     Mar 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
17603 HARRISON, Albert1890ENG,     Oct 1896 : Scotsman CAN Barnardos  
17702 HARRISON, Albert1902ENG,     Aug 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
24022 HARRISON, Annie1910ENG,     Jun 1916 : Scandinavian CAN Middlemore  
17703 HARRISON, Arthur1890ENG,     May 1903 : Bavarian CAN Unknown  
7989 HARRISON, Catherine1849ENG,     Jun 1869 : Austrian CAN Maria Rye  
5889 HARRISON, Clarence1898ENG,     Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
11899 HARRISON, Dorothy1910ENG,    , Strood Apr 1921 : Minnedosa CAN Salvation Army  
24162 HARRISON, Ed.1852ENG,     May 1870 : Scandinavian CAN Boy's Home Great Queen Street, London  
7100 HARRISON, G.1865ENG,     Aug 1871 : Prussian CAN MacPherson Homes  
9373 HARRISON, Gladys1894ENG,     Jun 1905 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
21035 HARRISON, Henry1881ENG,     Apr 1898 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
19947 HARRISON, Hy1882ENG,     Apr 1897 : Labrador CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
23363 HARRISON, Issac ENG,     Mar 1914 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
19740 HARRISON, JH 1886ENG,     Jun 1897 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
21690 HARRISON, John A.1881ENG,     Jul 1891 : Sardinian CAN Waifs & Strays  
21751 HARRISON, John K1877ENG,     May 1892 : Sardinian CAN Rev. Mr. Bridger  
24097 HARRISON, John R1907ENG,     Jun 1915 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
4815 HARRISON, Kenneth1911ENG, YKS, Hull Apr 1925 : Montclare CAN Barnardos  
13238 HARRISON, Louisa1882ENG,     Oct 1892 : Sardinian CAN Barnardos  
24098 HARRISON, Oliver C1905ENG,     Jun 1915 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
11179 HARRISON, Richard1892ENG,     Apr 1900 : Cambroman CAN Barnardos  
26935 HARRISON, Ronald  Aug 1939 : Strathnaver AUS Fairbridge Homes  
4816 HARRISON, Rupert1914ENG, YKS, Hull Apr 1925 : Montclare CAN Barnardos  
22876 HARRISON, Thomas1889ENG,     May 1905 : Southwark CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
16988 HARRISON, Thomas William1893ENG, YKS May 1907 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
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