Quarriers Story: One Man's Vision That Gave 7,000 Children a New Life in Canada

by Anna Magnusson

Book Overview

In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow's infamous slums. A few years later Quarrier's Village was opened, providing a refuge for the abandoned and the orphaned in the rolling fields of Renfrewshire. Since these beginnings, Quarriers has cared for more than 40,000 children in need. It now runs a diverse range of support and care programs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550026550
• ISBN13: 9781550026559
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"