Victoria Industrial School (Mimico, Ont.)

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Victoria Industrial School (Mimico, Ont.)

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Victoria Industrial School (Mimico, Ont.)

    Other form(s) of name

    • Victoria Industrial School (Toronto, Ont.)

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1887-1935

    History

    An 1884 amendment to the Industrial Schools Act enabled private philanthropic organizations to operate such institutions. Subsequently, the Industrial Schools Association of Toronto built the first such facility, the Victoria Industrial School for Boys, at Mimico in 1887. In 1891, the Association opened the Alexandra Industrial School for Girls in Toronto. It received the large number of girls who had been formerly held in the junior wing of the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Victoria Industrial School was a reformatory school for neglected, dependent and/or delinquent boys, providing them with industrial training and education, as well as appropriate housing, clothing and food.

    Address

    An Act respecting Industrial Schools, Statutes of Ontario 1874, Chap. 29 The Industrial Schools Act, Statutes of Ontario 1884, Chap. 46.

    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Office of the Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent Children (1893-1930)

    Identifier of related entity

    BA759

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Office of the Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent Children controls Victoria Industrial School (Mimico, Ont.)

    Dates of relationship

    1893-1930

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Training Schools Advisory Board (1931-1986)

    Identifier of related entity

    BA442

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Training Schools Advisory Board controls Victoria Industrial School (Mimico, Ont.)

    Dates of relationship

    1930-1935

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

    Subject access points

    Place access points

    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA2388

    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

        RG 8 Records. Industrial School Association Annual Reports Splane, Richard. Social Welfare in Ontario, 1791-1893 (1965)

        Maintenance notes

        Archivist(s):
        McIlroy