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Butterbox Babies: Baby Sales, Baby Deaths-New Revelations 15 Years Later
Bette L. Cahill
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Description for Butterbox Babies: Baby Sales, Baby Deaths-New Revelations 15 Years Later
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 246.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co., Ltd.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
ISBN
9781552662137
SKU
V9781552662137
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-14
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Butterbox Babies: Baby Sales, Baby Deaths-New Revelations 15 Years Later
"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