Remember when ... Scottish children were evacuated to Canada

MORE than 100 Scottish children (50 from Glasgow) joined 400 English and Welsh youngsters to sail to Canada in August 1940, on a voyage organised under the wartime evacuation scheme of the Children’s Overseas Reception Board. The youngsters were bound for new homes all over Canada, some even as far west as Vancouver. The board’s chairman, Geoffrey Shakespeare MP, pictured, chatted with some of the children before they sailed. One seven-year-old Glasgow boy said: “I wouldn’t mind joining the Mounties.”