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Home children remember, part 4

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'Home Boy': Arnprior Reeve William Price, 74, loves Canada now, but his first impress sions in 1923 when he was sent here at 13 (above) by his impoverished Welsh mother were less enthusiastic. As one of thousands of 'home children'-- poor or orphaned children forced to emigrate -- who arrived in Canada be*' tween 1870 and 1925, Price labored on a farm for "$4 a month from which I was expected to clothe myself as well." -- Pat McGrath, Citizen

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