Home Children

Home Children is a memorial in Ottawa, Ontario. Home Children is situated nearby to Arthur Murray Dance Center, as well as near Holy Rosary Catholic Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tunney’s Pasture station and Parkdale Fire Station.

Tunney’s Pasture station

Railway station

Photo: Robkelk, Public domain.

Tunney's Pasture station is the western O-Train light rail terminal train station and a major bus transitway station in Ottawa, Ontario. Tunney’s Pasture station is situated 610 metres northwest of Home Children.

Parkdale Fire Station

Photo: Bbutler, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Parkdale Fire Station is situated 150 metres south of Home Children.

Protection of the Holy Virgin Memorial Church

Church

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Protection of the Holy Virgin Memorial Church is a Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia church in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Designed by Ottawa architect George M. Protection of the Holy Virgin Memorial Church is situated 660 metres north of Home Children.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hintonburg and Mechanicsville.

Hintonburg

Suburb

Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hintonburg is a neighbourhood in Kitchissippi Ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located west of the Downtown core. It is a historically working-class, predominantly residential neighbourhood, with a commercial strip located along Wellington Street West.

Mechanicsville

Neighborhood

Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mechanicsville is a neighbourhood in Kitchissippi Ward in central Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located to the west of downtown and bordered by the Ottawa River to the north, O-Train Line 2 to the east, Scott Street to the south, and Parkdale Avenue to the west.

Tunney’s Pasture

Neighborhood

Photo: Robkelk, Public domain.

Tunney's Pasture is a 49-hectare campus in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, that is exclusively developed for federal government buildings. It is bordered by Scott Street to the south, Parkdale Avenue to the east, the Kichi Zibi Mikan to the north, and the Champlain Park neighbourhood to the west.

Home Children

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “Beginning in 1869, British charitable societies removed children from slums and orphanages in congested industrial cities and brought them to Canada to serve as cheap farm and domestic labour. ‘Homes’ were set up across the country to house th”
Category: historic site
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude

45.40115° or 45° 24′ 4″ north

Longitude

-75.72835° or 75° 43′ 42″ west

Open location code

87Q6C72C+FM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4398908789

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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