An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the turbulent and moving story of four British 'bricks for Empire building' - based on the memoirs of some of the 100,000 'home children' who helped build the new Canada.
R.H. Thomson
Jan Austin
Sarah Polley
Nathan Adamson
Fiona Reid
Sian Leisa Davies
Amos Crawley
Cedric Smith
Maureen McRae
Huw Davies
Torquil Campbell
David Hughes
Judy Sinclair
Donna Edwards
Eric Peterson
James Bradford
Peter Ferri
Meg Hogarth
Robert Haley
Alison MacLeod
Gerard Parkes
George Buza
Jack Jessop
Dennis O'Connor
Tony Desmond
Larry Schwartz
Antonio Cairo
Loreena McKennitt
Nicholas Rice