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Homeless persons

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

13.9 Male, Single, 35-44 yrs, Alcoholism, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/12
Scope and Contents

"This is a bad alcoholic, a tramp shepherd. He drinks every penny he earns and is quarrelsome in liquor. P.A.O: Funny fellow, no' just altogether correct, No P.A. Big daft kind of fellow."

Dates: September 1946

15.44 Female, Single, 45-54 yrs, Manic depressive, January 1945

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/14
Scope and Contents

"Manic depressive psychosis with recurrent mania. Onset when she was 26, long history of treatments and remissions. Has worked as a typist. Does not seem to have had any home for many years, continually travelling about abroad."


Niece and nephew (15.43) and (15.42) in study.

Dates: Other: January 1945

19.38 Male, Single, 55-64 yrs, Psychopathic personality, November 1945

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/18
Scope and Contents

'This man is a "desparate fellow", a tramp and casual labourer.'

Dates: Other: November 1945

Research, 1957-1967

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1966/4/2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Papers relating to John Spencer's time as Professor of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Includes teaching material, research, correspondence and conference papers.

Dates: 1957-1967

Student Papers and Theses, c. 1960

 File — Box JS23
Identifier: Coll-1966/4/1/8
Scope and Contents Student essays submitted for marking by undergraduates at the School of Social Work: Proposal for a Study of the Exercise of Discretion by the Police of a Metropolitan Areas in the Disposition of Juvenile Offenders; The Persistent Criminal: His Characteristics and Some Treatment Considerations; Special Projects and the Use of Detached workers in the Prevention of Delinquency.Theses submitted as part of the requirements for Degree in Master of Social Work: Criminality and...
Dates: c. 1960

Urbanisation and Communities

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1966/6/4/5
Scope and Contents Reference material relating to housing, communities, town planning, and homelessness.Journal articles and reprints: A housing project wends it's weary way Canadian Public Administration Journal.Photocopies and typescripts: Development of indigenous leadership in an urban area (1954); Social Planning Council of Toronto: A statement of housing and urban renewal; The Lorado Taft lecture: Urbanisation in the middle and late 1960s (1964); Sperry...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1940-1978