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Central Neighbourhood House multicultural clubs
1925
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto
Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records
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Dance class at Central Neighbourhood House
1920s
Downtown Toronto
Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records
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Peter Pan performed by Central Neighbourhood House children at Orde Public School
1915
Downtown Toronto
Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records
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Newsboy selling papers in downtown Toronto
1905
Downtown Toronto
Credits:
McCord Museum, MP-0000.586.112
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Jewish newsboys from The Ward
1910
The Ward, Toronto
Credits:
Ontario Jewish Archives
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Newsboys' Club at Central Neighbourhood House in The Ward
1913
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto
Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records
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Billiards at Moss Park Recreation Centre on Sherbourne Street by Arthur Goss
December 1915
Downtown Toronto
Credits:
City of Toronto Archives, 372-52-657
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Sweatshop labour at J. D. King knitting factory
1897
Downtown Toronto
Credits:
City of Toronto Archives
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Making lace
1915
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto
Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records
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Boys' Parliament
1912
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto
Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records
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Early CNH baseball team ... without uniforms
1910s-1920s
Downtown Toronto
Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records
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Baseball uniforms
1910s-1920s
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto
Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records
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Less than a year after it had opened, Elizabeth Neufeld's "Yearbook" leaflet summarized CNH's programming achievements. Over two hundred children and adults had participated in one of CNH's thirty-four clubs or activities at 84 Gerrard Street West.
CNH sports programming intensified in the 1920s as hockey teams from diverse Toronto settlement organizations competed for an annual trophy and celebrated their annual achievements with a hockey banquet. In May 1912, parents and friends gathered to watch their children showcase their acquired music, and folk dance skills at the first Central Neighbourhood House spring festival. With the enlisted help of the Parks Department,some 250 geraniums were also distributed among the crowd of neighbours and families-these plants were to be nurtured and returned for judging in the fall. The festival scenes of celebration would have been hard to envision, a year earlier, when Arthur Burnett's Ward photographs shed light on the realities of Ward life and raised awareness of the need for settlement services.
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First Central Neighbourhood House year book
1912
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto
Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records