num_pages: 223
description: 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.
language: English
title: Butterbox Babies: Baby Sales, Baby Deaths-New Revelations 15 Years Later
titlecomplete: Butterbox Babies: Baby Sales, Baby Deaths-New Revelations 15 Years Later
genres: Canada, Historical, Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Biography Memoir, Adoption, Biography
ratings_count: 260
places: Nova Scotia
publisher: Fernwood Publishing