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Field name | Value |
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Title | Sedgwick Migration Scrapbook 29: Town Lads on Imperial Farms |
Date | Mar 1913 - Jul 1914 |
Document Type | Newspaper; Correspondence; Report |
Reference | RCMS 31/3/1-23, Box 8, Volume 3, Folder 1 |
Library / Archive | Cambridge University Library |
Collection Name | Thomas E. Sedgwick's Migration Scrapbooks, 1910-1914 |
Description | Letters, reports and articles respecting Sedgwick's 'Town Lads on Imperial Farms', promoting the lifestyle and prospects of farm work for British boys at home, and in the colonies. |
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) | Motives for Emigration; Politics, Legislation and Governance; Responses to Immigration |
Country (from) | Great Britain |
Country (to) | New Zealand; Australia; Canada |
Places | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Nationality | English; European |
People | Rosenbaum, S; Pratt, Robert; Sedgwick, Thomas Edward |
Keywords | map, languages, export, trade, import, railway, canal, expansion, travel, welfare, children, emigration, apprenticeship, emigration scheme, shipping, agriculture, farming, labour, employment, government, farm school, colony conditions, settlement, application, societies |
Language | English |
Copyright | Cambridge University Library |