Shoes
A home child who arrived in Ontario in 1910 recalled her delight in receiving rubber boots, socks and mitts, no doubt to supplement her shoes. She thanked the farmer for the gift and was astounded to receive the reply, “Oh, you're paying for everything.” Another home child writing some years later wrote:
“I don’t think I spent five cents out of my wages, except for clothes. There was nowhere to go and no way for me to get there if there had been.”