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Field name | Value |
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Title | Sedgwick Migration Scrapbook 20: Social Reform and Training Farms |
Date | 1912 |
Document Type | Pamphlet; Correspondence; Newspaper; Photograph |
Publisher Information | Herald Office, North Gate, Bath |
Reference | RCMS 31/2/163-194, Box 6, Volume 2, Folder 7 |
Library / Archive | Cambridge University Library |
Collection Name | Thomas E. Sedgwick's Migration Scrapbooks, 1910-1914 |
Description | Documents refer to the emigration of young British boys and girls to New Zealand, Australia, and Canada as a means to escape the unemployment crisis in Britain. There are pamphlets, letter and newspaper articles referring to training farms where prospective emigrants could attend and learn the skills to better prepare them for agricultural and domestic labour abroad. The training farm owned by Rupert Guinness in Woking Park, Surrey, and the Scouts' Farm, Buckhurst Place are the subject of many newspaper clippings and photographs. |
Biographical Note / History | In 1911 Thomas Edward Sedgwick organised for a group of 50 boys to be sent from England to New Zealand on board the S.S. Authentic before the outbreak of the First World War. They were sent as part of an experiment to ascertain whether young British boys might help alleviate a shortage of farm labourers in New Zealand and offer a solution to the declining levels of employment opportunities in the crowded British cities. They were trained in all aspects of farming life, and the wages they earnt were paid to the Labour Department while the boys were awarded weekly pocket money. |
Theme(s) | Responses to Immigration; Motives for Emigration; Politics, Legislation and Governance |
Country (from) | Great Britain |
Country (to) | New Zealand; Australia; Canada |
Places | Vancouver, British Columbia, Toronto, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Canada; Surrey, England; Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Australia; British Honduras; Bahamas; Panama Canal, Panama |
Ports | London, England; Glasgow, Scotland |
Nationality | English; European; Scottish |
People | Savage, F; Sedgwick, Thomas Edward; Ellerington, A R; Guinness, Rupert; Baden-Powell, Robert; Lee, Sir Sydney; Ward, Sir Joseph; Tavernier, Sir John; Allen, James; Fyfe, H Hamilton; Smith, J Obed; Scott, W D |
Keywords | emigration scheme, shipping, agriculture, farming, labour, employment, government, farm school, colony conditions, apprenticeship, unemployment, economics, push factor, population, Christianity, industrial school, education, prison, crime, poverty, clothing, welfare, history, housing, application, Young Women's Christian Association, disease, health and sickness, industry, manufacturing, livestock, steamboat, ticket, colony, colonisation |
Language | English |
Copyright | Cambridge University Library |