Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Peterborough County House of Refuge
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
There is a history of the Peterborough Protestant Home in History 475, Anson House, a home and a refuge (2001), edited by Elwood Jones and Brendan Edwards. There is also the excellent study of Ontario social welfare by Richard B. Splane, Social Welfare in Ontario, 1791-1893 (1965). More information available at Kim Krenz’s website, kimkrenz.ca