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In order to celebrate Central Neighbourhood House's century of service to residents in downtown Toronto, as well as the residents now living in the Cabbagetown and Regent Park neighbourhoods, the Cabbagetown Regent Park Community Museum created this video. Here it is presented in full and divided into smaller segments called: Neighbourhood and Reform; Founding and Early Years; and Depression to a House of their Own.2
Central Neighbourhood House: A Century in the Making (full video)1911-2011
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto
Credits:Cabbagetown Regent Park Community Museum
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The first video clip is called Neighbourhood and Reform. It covers conditions in downtown Toronto, especially the impoverished, immigrant area known as The Ward, as well as the need for reform espoused by such people as John Joseph Kelso.4
CNH: Neighbourhood & Reform1911
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto
Credits:Cabbagetown Regent Park Museum
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The second video clip is called Founding and Early Years. It discusses the people and process that led to the founding of Toronto's second settlement house, Central Neighbourhood House, in 1911. It introduces the three founders - J. J. Kelso, George Bryce, and A.H. Burnett - as well as the first head worker, Elizabeth Neufeld. And it illustrates some early programs and the people who participated in them.6
CNH: Founding & Early Years1911-1919
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto
Credits:Cabbagetown Regent Park Musuem
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The third video clip is called Depression to a House of their Own. It traces the evolution of CNH from the Great Depression of the 1930s, through the Second World War, on into the post-war years,social changes, the building of their own home at 349 Ontario Street, and the programs that continue to this day.8
CNH: From Depression to their Own House1929-2011
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto
Credits:Cabbagetown Regent Park Museum
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