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Butterbox Babies is a film adapted from the book Butterbox Babies by Bette L. Cahill, which is based on the true story of the Ideal Maternity Home, a home for unwed pregnant mothers, during the Great Depression and Second World War.
The title of Bette Cahill's book, Butterbox Babies is a reference to the "butter boxes," wooden grocery crates from a local dairy used as coffins for the babies killed at the Ideal Maternity Home. [4] The 1995 film Butterbox Babies was adapted from the book. [5]
Dec 3, 2016 · The half-metre pine grocery crates served as unmarked wooden coffins for infants who died at the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, N.S., and were buried on the property and at a cemetery in...
Jun 4, 2019 · A butter box (Ideal Maternity Home Survivors) The children they couldn't sell were burned in the Home's furnace or buried in the backyard of the property. They are also said to have separated and created siblings and twins according to what their customers wanted.
Since the 1992 publication of Butterbox Babies, the Ideal Maternity Home in Chester, Nova Scotia, has become synonymous with illegal adoptions and suspicious baby deaths. Much attention has been given to the neglect of infants at the Home, the exorbitant fees paid by adoptive parents, and the secretive nature of the transactions.
The Butterbox Babies - Horrific Canadian Child Rights Story. Survivors of dark episode in Canada's history trace their past. By SUSAN K. LIVIO, STATEHOUSE BUREAU. Ilene Seifer Steinhauer as an infant at The Ideal Maternity Home and as an adult today (right below).
Feb 2, 2022 · The mysterious tragedy of the Butterbox Babies is a story of deceit, greed, and murder. Even now, nearly 100 years later, what happened at the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia still horrifies and baffles historians and the descendants of those involved.
Nov 22, 2021 · These babies were fed molasses and water to starve them. The babies died within a few weeks. And their bodies were placed in delivery wooden boxes from the local creamery with a label,...
Apr 1, 1992 · The butterbox babies is about a husband and wife who ran an unwed maternity home in Nova Scotia. The mothers were given free care and some of the babies were adopted out for thousands of dollars. Some were put into the butter boxes and buried.
Dec 3, 2016 · Every morning when Riva Barnett opens her bedroom closet she looks down at a small, wooden butter box that serves as a stark reminder of what could have been her fate. Had she not been adopted,...
