Barnardo children

noun, children (approximately 30,00) who were sent as immigrants to Canada after 1970, named after Thomas John Barnardo (1845– 1905), British philanthropist and founder of a chain of homes for destitute children (adapted from “Barnardo”, COD)

“There’s a few years ago they had a special year on the home child, and there was a lot of research done on it. ‘The Barnardo children’ is a term that you see quite often associated ’cause he was one of the ones who organized a lot of the finding families for people.”