Heaven on Earth

This is a lovely story about English orphans - actually mostly Welsh orphans who were brought to Canada in the early decades of the 20th century. Many of them seem to have been unfortunately rather cruelly used as cheap labor - others found happy homes and a rewarding, if difficult, new life.The film especially follows one girl who was separated from her baby brother and underwent much difficulty reuniting with him. The issue is important because it deals with such family separations - often undertaken for the 'good' of the parties, but almost always a terrible mistake resulting in cruel separation from those the child has loved. The film also comments on the treatment of young women victimized by rape and subsequently victimized further by an uncaring system that tended to regard such girls as ruined, and possibly at fault themselves. It is a lesson that we need to remember now.