Now retired, I come from a professional background, having spent many years advising trustees and sponsoring employers of company pension arrangements. In doing so, I developed and delivered many talks and presentations to clients and their employees, also speaking at conferences, so I am an experienced public speaker. As is described elsewhere, my talk concerns the 'British Home Children'. From the late 1860s until 1939, around 100,000 British children from pauper backgrounds were sent to Canada where they were put to work, mostly on farms or in domestic service. In 2010, then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, issued a formal apology for the British Government’s involvement in this movement. I believe my talk will be of interest to a wide range of audiences. Not only does it cover a little known, and some would say shameful part of our social history, but many of the issues are still relevant today. I have researched the subject of the British Home Children over many years, and I have recently written a book inspired by them. This story is important to me as my father was one of those children, and he was one of many who led a remarkable life. In my talk I briefly touch on his own story.