The Club's monthly meetings are a key part of the PROBUS experience. They allow the Management Committee to provide updates, and they enable all members to catch up with friends (old and new), discuss upcoming events and activities and to generally participate in the ongoing development of the club. Our monthly meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 10:00 a.m. to noon and there is a $2.00 charge for attending the meeting which helps cover the meeting expenses. Coffee will be served and members are encouraged to bring their own mugs.
PROBUS meetings always feature a guest speaker and this month will be no exception:
Between 1869 and 1948 over 100,000 impoverished children, from toddlers to eighteen, were removed from the UK and sent to Canadian shores to become domestic servants and farm workers. Unlike the Guest Children who were sent here to protect them against the war, there was no intention to send the Home Children back home. Most were forever separated from their families, friends, culture and country. Most Home Children spent their lives not knowing who they were, where they had come from and why they had truly been sent to Canada.
Ms. Lori Oschefski is President of ‘Home Children Canada’ (HCC) - a charitable organization she founded in 2012 which is dedicated to bringing the true stories of the British Home Children to light. 
Lori is a Genealogical Researcher and Advocate whose work is recognized world wide. She has been the subject of extensive coverage with interviews and articles through news media outlets such as the BBC in England, CBC radio, CBC The National, The Scotsman (Scotland) and many other community Canadian newspapers.
Throughout the years Lori and HCC have steadily maintained their mission of cataloging Home Children stories, gathering information about the children and their lives in Canada, reconnecting families unjustly torn apart by these migrant programs, and promoting the story of the Home Children across the world. Her personal connection with this story comes through her mother, who arrived in Canada in 1924 at the tender age of 2. Lori will share some of her research and stories of some of these children with us.
Please remember to wear your name badge.
This meeting will be in the upstairs Banquet Hall of Don Beer arena
