Vanier Centre for Women (Ont.)

Identity area

Type of entity

Higher-level Ontario government office (type B)

Authorized form of name

Vanier Centre for Women (Ont.)

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Vanier Centre for Women

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1969-

      History

      The Vanier Centre for Women, Brampton opened on January 29, 1969 and took over the programs and inmates of the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women in Toronto.

      Government responsibility over the Centre rested with the Department of Correctional Services (1969-1972), the Ministry of Correctional Services (1972-1993), the Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services (1993-1999) and, since 1999, the Ministry of Correctional Services.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Vanier Centre for Women is a minimum security institution housing women, sixteen years of age or over, serving sentences of more than thirty days but less than two years. The Vanier Centre, like other Correctional Centres of the Province of Ontario, emphasizes the provision of trades training programs, academic education and industrial employment. It also provides counselling and treatment for drug and alchohol abuse.

      Address

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women (1880-1969)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA2390

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women is the predecessor of Vanier Centre for Women (Ont.)

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      BA544

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

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

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Annual Reports of the Department of Reform Institutions, 1967-1969.

          Annual Reports of the Department of Correctional Services, 1968-1972.

          Maintenance notes

          Not found in Canadiana Name Authorities


          Archivist(s):
          Marg McIntyre