I am posting the below on behalf of a researcher.  Please contact her
directly if you can be of assistance.

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Frank van Kalmthout
Librarian,
Archives of Ontario
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416-327-1553
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> Joanne Minaker ([log in to unmask]) is researching charitable
> institutions and religious societies working with "problem" girls and
> women between 1850 and 1950 in Toronto.  She is having difficulty locating
> the records of the Toronto Industrial Refuge, formerly known as the
> Toronto Magdalene Asylum (incorporated 1853), and later the Belmont Homes
> (closed in 1938) or the Toronto Good Shepherd Refuge.  Here at the AO, we
> have its annual reports, but nothing more.
>
> Some of the women who were Directresses or Visiting Committee Members
> were:  Mrs. John Baldwin, Mrs. E. Baldwin, Mrs. John Kerr, Mrs. James
> Leslie, Mrs. G. Duggan, Mrs. J.G. Hodgins, Miss Isabella Brown, Mrs. James
> MacLennan, Mrs. John Kerr, Mrs. Thos. Dick, Mrs. H.E. Clarke, Mrs. John
> McMurrich, Mrs. W.B. McMurrich.
>
> Please contact her directly if you have any leads.
>
>