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Annie Parlane MacPherson (1833 – November 27, 1904) was a Scottish evangelical Quaker and philanthropist who pioneered child emigration to Canada.〔(Annie Mac Pherson ) British Home Children.〕 She was born in Campsie, by Milton, Stirlingshire, and educated in Glasgow and at the Home and Colonial Training College in Gray's Inn Road, London. After her father died she moved to Cambridge, but soon after returned to London. Touched by the poverty in the eastend of London in 1868 she opened the Home of Industry at 60 Commercial Road in Spitalfield.〔(Annie MacPherson )〕 In the 1870s, she organised that Home children were sent to Canada from her home in London also had arrangements with Barnardo's Homes of Dr. Barnardo in London, Quarriers homes in Scotland, and Smyly homes in Dublin, Ireland〔(Young Immigrants to Canada ) Smyly Homes of Dublin, Ireland.〕 similar to arrangements with English and Scottish homes.〔''The golden bridge: young immigrants to Canada, 1833-1939'' By Marjorie Kohli〕 In Canada she had set up a number of Homes, ''Marchmont'', ''Galt'' in Ontario and in Knowlton Quebec 〔''Gods answers, a record of Miss Annie Macphersons work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada'' by Clara M.S. Lowe, (Introduction by )Rev. John Macpherson, LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO (1882)〕 The Doyle Report of 1875 into the emigration of children from these homes cast a shadow over the process of exporting children although it acknowledged the benevolent motives of MacPherson and others.〔(Doyle Report into MacPherson and Rye )〕 Her sister Louisa MacPherson married Charles Henry Birt, and helped her sister in her mission.〔(Louisa Birt )〕 In 1873 she established a home in Liverpool called The Sheltering Home. MacPherson died in 1904.〔http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/50744〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Annie MacPherson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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