Annie Macpherson

Annie Macpherson

Annie MacPherson was born in Campsie by Milton, Stirlingshire, in Scotland and educated at the Home and Colonial Training College in Gray's Inn Road, London. She is a philanthropist who is accepted as the pioneer of child emigration to Canada.

After her father died she moved to Cambridge, but soon after returned to London. Toched by the poverty in the eastend of london in 1868 she opened the Home of Industry at 60 Commerical Road in Spitalfield.

In the 1870s, she organised that Home children were sent to Canada from her home in London also had arrangments with Barnardo's Homes of Dr. Barnardo in London, Quarriers homes in Scotland, and Smyly homes in Dublin, Ireland similar to arrangements with English and Scottish homes. In Canada she had set up a number of Homes, Marchmont, Galt and Knowlton in Ontario.

The Doyle Report of 1875 into the emigration of children from these homes cast a shadow over the process of exporting children although it acknowledged the benevolent motives of MacPherson and others.

Her sister Lousia MacPherson married Charles Henry Birt, and helped her sister in her mission. In 1873 she establish a home in Liverpool the Sheltering Home.

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