House of Refuge, c. 1860

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dc.date.accessioned2008-05-16T17:21:56Z
dc.date.available2008-05-16T17:21:56Z
dc.date.issued1860
dc.descriptionNote: Established in 1860 on the site of today’s Bridgepoint Health on the east side of the Don north of Gerrard, the House of Refuge provided shelter for “vagrants, the dissolute, and for idiots.” It was used an an isolation hospital during the smallpox epidemics of the 1870s; a separate part of the building housed homeless elderly people during the 1880s and 90s. The original building was demolished in 1894, and a new structure operating under the name of the Riverdale Isolation Hospital became Toronto’s treatment and teaching centre for infectious diseases in 1904. As infectious diseases declined in the twentieth century, the building was renamed the Riverdale Hospital in 1957.en
dc.description.sponsorshipChanging Urban Waterfronts research project
dc.identifier.citationHouse of Refuge, c. 1860. Toronto Public Library, TRL, Historial Picture Collection, B 4-66b.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/1255
dc.publisherLocation: Toronto Public Libraryen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTRL, Historial Picture Collection, B 4-66ben
dc.subjectHouse of Refuge
dc.subjectDon River
dc.subjectisolation hospital
dc.subjectsmallpox
dc.titleHouse of Refuge, c. 1860en
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