300,000 Canadian mothers forced to give up babies await government apology
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Alexa MacKie
26d ago· 7 min readenNews
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More than 300,000 unwed Canadian mothers were forced to give up their babies in the decades after WWII, often in religious maternity homes that received public funding. The article follows Lynda Hall's personal journey to find her biological mother and highlights the broader movement of affected mothers and children seeking a formal apology from the Canadian federal government, which has yet to be issued.
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More than 300,000 unwed Canadian women were forced to give up their babies in the decades after the Second World War.
Though many of these forcible adoptions happened in religious maternity homes that received public funding, the federal government has yet to offer a formal apology.
More than 300,000 unwed Canadian women were forced to give up their babies in the decades after the Second World War. Though many of these forcible adoptions happened in religious maternity homes that received public funding, the federal government has ye
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