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Settlement Houses Ideas

Mission to the poor - brought middle and upper class youth to live with urban poor
Precursor to community organizing and social action
First Schools of Social Work connected to settlement workers U of T (1914) & McGill (1918).

Woman with children in poor neighbourhood: the kind of neighbourhood where settlement houses located, National Archives Neg. no. C4256.





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