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 Supervised Playgrounds and Recreation Centres
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Gymnastics demonstration, Elizabeth Street Playground, Elizabeth Street/Gerrard Street West "This is the playground of most of the little Jews and Italians of the city. These little ones of the foreign-born constitute one of our greatest social problems. It is important to us that they have opportunity, out in the open, under careful supervision, to fight the influences that come to them from the overcrowding in which their parents persist or are forced into. The playground is the true melting pot in which all the little foreigners are fused into Canadians. It should, to be effective, be an all-the-year-round-place. It cannot be if all the work has to be done under the blue sky. In this ward, more than in any other in the city, the children are full of the spirit of play. They have an abandon that is not given to the little ones of the Anglo-Saxon race. Repressed it is easily turned into viciousness. They need the playground even more in short, dark, cold winter days than they do in the brighter ones." News clipping, Central Neighbourhood House scrapbook |
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