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Jewish missionary Henry Singer in The Ward by William James
1912
The Ward, Toronto

Credits:
City of Toronto Archives, 244-2348

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While, geographically, the slum was located in the centre of Toronto near City Hall, in many ways it was on the periphery of genteel urban citizens' daily routes. The settlers who prospered moved out of the Ward. The Jews moved west towards Spadina, forming Kensington Market; and the Italians moved to College forming Little Italy. Those that remained were faced with an uncertain future.

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Looking up Teraulay (later Bay) Street past Old City Hall by William James
1908
Downtown Toronto

Credits:
City of Toronto Archives, 1244-293

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Banks, streetcars and pedestrians near the foot of Yonge Street by Notman
after 1906
Downtown Toronto

Credits:
McCord Museum, VIEW-2308A

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Italian immigrants
1910s
Downtown Toronto

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Immigrants on Kensington Avenue by John Boyd
1922
Downtown Toronto

Credits:
Library and Archives Canada, PA-084815

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Queen Street and Spadina Avenue by Arthur Goss
1912
Downtown Toronto

Credits:
City of Toronto Archives, 372-58-113

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Aerial photograph looking toward the Ontario Legislature at Queen's Park
1930s
Downtown Toronto

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In 1911, George P. Bryce together with superintendent, John Joseph Kelso, and divinity student, Arthur H. Burnett, founded Central Neighbourhood House - a social settlement that sought to provide incoming Canadians with services they desperately lacked in the downtown Ward neighbourhood. The house was to provide them with education, recreation and cultural activities and, unlike other missions and social reform movements of the time, the services were to be completely secular in nature.