Children's Aid Excursion, July 18, 1894
Datec. 1894
DimensionsOverall: 30.5 x 24.8 cm
Credit LineGift from the London Public Library, London, Ontario, 1962
Object number1962.094.009
Label TextThe Children's Aid Society of London was formed in November 1893 and incorporated under its first constitution in February 1894. The organization's objectives, according to this constitution, were to: 1) protect children from cruelty; 2) care for and protect neglected, abandoned or orphaned children; 3) provide such children as may be lawfully committed or entrusted to the Society with suitable homes in private families; 4) watch over and guard their interests and promote their happiness and well-being; and 5) secure the enforcement of laws relating to neglected and dependent children or juvenile offenders and generally to advocate the claims of neglected, abandoned or orphaned children upon the sympathy and support of the public. The Children's Aid Society of London opened a shelter for children, the Thomas Alway Hall, on the northwest corner of Wharncliffe Road and Cove Lane in December 1905. The shelter was rebuilt on the northwest corner of Byron Avenue and Wharncliffe Road South in 1923. A 1961 article about the building being demolished noted that the building had been "a temporary home for hundreds of children from infancy to teen-age, occasionally housing as many as 50 at one time." It continued the building had recently been replaced by the then-new May Court House.
NamePhotograph
c. 1895
