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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.
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...
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]
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.
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).
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.
Apr 25, 2014 · "Butterbox Babies" is the shocking true story of Lila and William Young, owners of the Ideal Maternity Home for unwed mothers. Resented by the medical community,...
