Hi everyone Does anyone know about a Boys Home in Etobicoke? It's in the 1911 census but I can't find a name for the home, just a list of staff and inmates. The head is Chester Ferrier if that is any help. I googled for it but found nothing. Lorine -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze * Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ * Images of Ships Lists http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com

Hi Lorine, I took a look at the census and beneath Chester is a Mable Sharpe attendant and it says Mimico School. Perhaps it was associated with or connected to the Mimico Hospital. Jackie Olive Tree Genealogy wrote: >Hi everyone > >Does anyone know about a Boys Home in Etobicoke? > >It's in the 1911 census but I can't find a name for the >home, just a list of staff and inmates. > >The head is Chester Ferrier if that is any help. I googled >for it but found nothing. > >Lorine >-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze > >* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) >http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ >* Naturalization Records >http://naturalizationrecords.com/ >* Images of Ships Lists >http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ > >otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com > > > >*********** >Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

Lorine: I googled "Chester Ferrier" - Victoria Industrial School ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olive Tree Genealogy" <otg@csolve.net> To: <ontario@rootsweb.com> Cc: <upper-canada@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 4:05 PM Subject: [ONTARIO] Boys Home in Etobicoke York Co. 1911ish > Hi everyone > > Does anyone know about a Boys Home in Etobicoke? > > It's in the 1911 census but I can't find a name for the > home, just a list of staff and inmates. > > The head is Chester Ferrier if that is any help. I googled > for it but found nothing. > > Lorine > -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze > > * Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ > * Naturalization Records > http://naturalizationrecords.com/ > * Images of Ships Lists > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ > > otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com > > > > *********** > Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Lorine also found this article "Smoking was another problem turn-of-the-century child savers like Kelso and institutional officials like Chester Ferrier, the longest serving superintendent of the Victoria Industrial School, linked to boys' deviant character. A careful study of the boys under his charge led Ferrier to believe that tobacco use was overrepresented among delinquent boys. According to the Superintendent, 60 per cent of the inmates of the Victoria Industrial School were smokers.54 Ferrier objected to the use of tobacco by boys since he was convinced it had detrimental effects for what he called their "moral power." Tobacco use was, in his words, "destroying, and making criminals of more of this class of boys than the saloons. It weakens the moral power of the boy, so that the cigarette fiend readily yields to temptation." Jackie Olive Tree Genealogy wrote: >Hi everyone > >Does anyone know about a Boys Home in Etobicoke? > >It's in the 1911 census but I can't find a name for the >home, just a list of staff and inmates. > >The head is Chester Ferrier if that is any help. I googled >for it but found nothing. > >Lorine >-- Lorine McGinnis Schulze > >* Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) >http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ >* Naturalization Records >http://naturalizationrecords.com/ >* Images of Ships Lists >http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ > >otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com > > > >*********** >Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

On 20 Aug 2007 at 19:10, Jackie Serna wrote: > Hi Lorine also found this article > "Smoking was another problem turn-of-the-century child savers like Kelso > and institutional officials like Chester Ferrier, the longest serving > superintendent of the Victoria Industrial School, linked to boys' Thanks to Jackie, Catherine, Pat and all others who responded to my question about this home. I could not load or view the .pdf files that came up in searches for Chester (I guess my dialup is just too archaic!) but knowing that the school was called Victoria Industrial School is exactly what I needed My interest is in a 12 year old who was there in 1911 - John Earl Follick aka Vollick. Hopefully I can find more on the school now that I have the name Thank you! Lorine -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze * Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ * Images of Ships Lists http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com