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Member Since: December 2005 Posts: 14,670 Send Message	Kay????	Report	2 Dec 2017 18:15
	It was under the Empire Settllement Act. "as The New Homeland" scheme there was articles in all UK newspapers an offer for a new life in Canada, offering assisted passages and loans...
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 24,943 Send Message	ArgyllGran	Report	2 Dec 2017 17:07
	His ignominious return to UK: Thomas Coulter in the UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 Name: Thomas Coulter Birth Date: abt 1912 Age: 20 Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States Arrival Date: 5 Apr 1932 Port of Arrival: Glasgow, Scotland Ports of Voyage: Halifax Ship Name: Athenia Shipping line: Donaldson Line Official Number: 146330 He was a truck driver, and was being deported from Canada. A note says "Gaol 'Athenia' 4/4/29 " Home address: Feus, Powmill, by Dollar. Same address as on way out in 1929. Some others listed with him were also being deported from gaol, and others because they were "LPC" - Liable to become a Public Charge. In the 1930's, because of the Depression, Canada deported lots of people who were a drain on Canada's financial resources. https://tinyurl.com/ycyxp2yu
	Researching: Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,445 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	2 Dec 2017 15:56
	his outward journey ame: John Thomas Coulter Gender: Male Age: 17 Birth Year: abt 1912 Birth Country: Scotland Date of Arrival: 1 Apr 1929 Vessel: Athenia Search Ship Database: Search for the Athenia in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database Port of Arrival: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Port of Departure: Glasgow, Scotland
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,445 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	2 Dec 2017 15:34
	from google British Immigration and Colonization Association - Library and ... https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/.../immigration/immigration.../british-immigration-colonizat... 10 Dec 2015 - The B.I.C.A. was incorporated in 1921 as the British Immigration Aid Association and changed its name in December 1923. The purpose of the Association was to encourage and sponsor emigration from the British Isles to Canada. Boys aged fourteen to eighteen were recruited from rural farm families, ... would doubt that they helped with any return journey
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,445 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	2 Dec 2017 15:26
	there is a tree on ancestry with his travel and his marriage and birth cert etc he was with a large party of teenage boys so not a BHC.He gives his fathers name and address plus his mums name so doenst appear to home child his destination was the BIMC ass hostel in Montreal he was born in Aug 5th 1911 Fife
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 7 Send Message	Margaret	Report	2 Dec 2017 15:17
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 7 Send Message	trying to find out abt this association and if they helped the boys come back to britain my mother in laws father went out in 1929 between then and 1938 he came home to scotland met his wife and married . so looking to fill gap john thomas coulter born fife 1912

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