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Eliza Showell came to Cape Breton to work, at the age of 12. Her family back in England never knew what happened to her until more than a hundred years later, when relatives came looking. Find out the details of Eliza's life in this documentary, just one of the many British Home Children sent to Canada to work in indentured servitude.
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Eliza Showell came to Cape Breton to work, at the age of 12. Her family back in England never knew what happened to her until more than a hundred years later, when relatives came looking. Find out the details of Eliza's life in this documentary, just one of the many British Home Children sent to Canada to work in indentured servitude.

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