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Photo Credits
8University of Liverpool Archives, Special Collections Branch, Fairbridge Fonds, Arnison Family Records, D 296.E1.
10The Times (London), November 29, 1934.
12University of Liverpool Archives, Special Collections Branch, Fairbridge Fonds, D 296.F1, and Fairbridge Farm School, Annual Report, circa 1949.
14Photo by Patricia Skidmore.
18Remembrancia V (LMA ref: COL/RMD/PA/01/005), printed with permission from the London Metropolitan Archives).
25Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
44(top and bottom) University of Liverpool Archives, Special Collections Branch, Fairbridge Fonds, Arnison Family Records, D 296.E1.
59Photo by Patricia Skidmore.
60(top) Skidmore family collection.
60(left and right) Skidmore family collection.
62University of Liverpool Archives, Special Collections Branch, Fairbridge Fonds, Arnison Files, D 296/f/4/1/5.
69Photo by Patricia Skidmore.
71Skidmore family collection.
74Skidmore family collection.
80(top) Skidmore family collection.
(bottom) Fairbridge Farm School, Annual Report, “Fairbridge Farm School’s Thirty-Sixth Year, 1945,” 3.
92Fairbridge Farm School, “Fairbridge Farm School’s Thirtieth Year, 1939,” 13.
101(top) Skidmore family collection.
(bottom) Fairbridge Farm School, “Fairbridge Farm School’s Twenty-Seventh Year, 1936,” 5, 13.
120Skidmore family collection.
125(top) “From Tyneside to Vancouver Island,” Fairbridge Farm School, Annual Report, “Fairbridge Farm School’s Twenty-Eighth Year, 1937,” 29.
(bottom) “English Youngsters Learn Canadian Farming Methods at Fairbridge Farm School,” Cowichan Leader, March 14, 1946, Duncan Studio.
128“Fairbridge Glimpses,” Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School Fiftieth Anniversary, 1935–1985, booklet of the Old Fairbridge Alumni Committee, 51.
136Skidmore family collection.
141Photo by Patricia Skidmore.
158Garnett family collection.
160Photo by Vera Hance, Skidmore family collection.
165Photo by Vera Hance, Skidmore family collection.
168Skidmore family collection.
195Fairbridge Farm School, “Fairbridge Farm School’s Twenty-Seventh Year, 1936,” 6.
207Courtesy of Jean Conlon.
213Photo by Patricia Skidmore.
229Skidmore family collection.
232(top) Photo by David Arnison.
(bottom) Skidmore family collection.
233Skidmore family collection.
Book Credits
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Cover image: (top) Fairbridge girls with a cottage mother on the steps of Pennant Cottage. Right–left: Jessie Newbold, unknown, Audrey Richards, Lillian Kemp, Marjorie Arnison, Mrs. Williams, Joan Vallintin, Betty Lenton, Winnie Hardy, Lily Clabby, Catherine Stoker, Mary Kewan, unknown. (Courtesy of the Cowichan Valley Museum and Archives, 999.10.15.42) (bottom) Fairbridge children heading back to their cottages at the end of the day. (Fairbridge Farm School, Annual Report, 1940, 8)
Back cover image: (top) Kenny, Marjorie, and Audrey at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, circa 1942. (Skidmore family collection) (bottom) Audrey, Kenny, and Marjorie, free from the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, circa 1947. (Skidmore family collection)
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Skidmore, Patricia, author
Marjorie her war years : a British home child in Canada / Patricia Skidmore; foreword by Gordon Brown.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Arnison, Marjorie. 2. Home children (Canadian immigrants)--
British Columbia--Biography. 3. World War, 1939-1945--Children--British
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Table of Contents
Cover
Dedication
Author’s Note
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Afterword (Afterward):
Acknowledgements
Appendix:
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Book Credits
Copyright
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