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Butterbox Babies Bette L. Cahill

Butterbox Babies By Bette L. Cahill

Butterbox Babies by Bette L. Cahill


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Many of the babies born at the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia, were not adopted. Instead they disappeared, becoming known as butterbox babies - named after the grocery delivery boxes that they were buried in. This book reveals the sometimes happy, often heartbreaking endings of survivors searching for their birth parents.

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Butterbox Babies: Baby Sales, Baby Deaths-New Revelations 15 Years Later by Bette L. Cahill

Many of the babies born at the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia, were not adopted. Instead they mysteriously disappeared, becoming known as butterbox babies - named after the grocery delivery boxes that they were buried in. Since Bette Cahill first wrote about this shocking truth in 1992, she continued to research the story and corresponded with many of the home's survivors. In this expanded edition, she shares her ongoing examination, revealing the sometimes happy, often heartbreaking endings of survivors searching for their birth parents.

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Butterbox Babies is Bette Cahill's exhaustively researched expose of the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester. Cahill, a Halifax journalist, reveals the horrifying tales of abuse, illegal adoptions and even murder. -The Halifax Daily News

About Bette L. Cahill

BETTE CAHILL is an award winning journalist who has been a reporter/producer at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Television for the past 26 years. She is the recipient of four major journalism awards for her work in television news and documentaries. In 1992, Bette was awarded Author of the Year by the Canadian Periodical Marketers Association for the original version of her book, Butterbox Babies. Bette resides in Halifax.

Table of Contents

Preface * Prologue o Part l - Birth of a Business: 1928-1939 William and Lila * Mothers' Refuge * Seeds of Conflict * Eva's Misfortune * Manslaughter * Fraud * Stolen Baby * Suspicious Deaths o Part ll - Dangerous Fixation 1939-1945 Mounting Suspicion * Baby Barons * Neglect * Trafficking * God On Their Side o Part III - Gathering Storm 1945-1947 Dirty Politics * Crack-down in Two Countries * Surviving Court * Traders In Fear o Part IV - Long Shadows 1948-2006 Bankruptcy * Nova Scotia - Burying Its Past * From the Grave * Family Portraits * The Forgotten Ones * Reunions

Additional information

NPB9781552662137
9781552662137
1552662136
Butterbox Babies: Baby Sales, Baby Deaths-New Revelations 15 Years Later by Bette L. Cahill
New
Paperback
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
20070401
224
N/A
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