St. John's School (Toronto, Ont.)

• St. John's School (Toronto, Ont.)

• St. John's Industrial School (Toronto, Ont.)

• St. John's Training School for Boys (Toronto, Ont.)

The Brothers of the Christian Schools, a Roman Catholic Order, opened the St. John's Industrial School on 16 November 1895 in a structure at Victoria Park Avenue and Kingston Road, Toronto. The building was condemned by a York County Grand Jury as a fire hazard in 1944 but it was not until 1956 that the Order purchased a rural property north of Uxbridge, Ontario. This new facility was designated to receive all Roman Catholic boys from the southwestern half of the province. It was able to accommodation up to 120 boys in two separate sections, for junior and senior boys. Each boy admitted to the school appears before an assessment committee. The academic program covered grades 1 through 10, with special adaptations to the needs and limitations of the boys, the majority of whom attend school on a full-day basis. It ceased operation in 1985.

St. John's Training School for Boys was a training school for Catholic boys. Training schools are facilities for youth placed under the wardship of the Ontario government. The schools offer a variety of vocational and occupational training to their wards, as well as treatment services and recreational programs.

Initially, training schools were established to house troubled or unmanageable youth, sent mainly by parents or Children's Aid Societies. In 1939 with the passage of the revised Training Schools Act, all industrial schools were made training schools and both troublesome children and those guilty of committing an offence were sent to the training schools to be reformed.

No authorizing agent has been identified for this agency.

RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

RG 60 Admin History File. Ontario Government Telephone Books, 1984-1986

Archivist(s):
McIlroy