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Early CNH baseball team ... without uniforms
1910s-1920s
Downtown Toronto

Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records

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Baseball uniforms
1910s-1920s
Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto

Credits:
Central Neighbourhood House Records

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Less than a year after it had opened, Elizabeth Neufeld's "Yearbook" leaflet summarized CNH's programming achievements. Over two hundred children and adults had participated in one of CNH's thirty-four clubs or activities at 84 Gerrard Street West.

CNH sports programming intensified in the 1920s as hockey teams from diverse Toronto settlement organizations competed for an annual trophy and celebrated their annual achievements with a hockey banquet. In May 1912, parents and friends gathered to watch their children showcase their acquired music, and folk dance skills at the first Central Neighbourhood House spring festival. With the enlisted help of the Parks Department,some 250 geraniums were also distributed among the crowd of neighbours and families-these plants were to be nurtured and returned for judging in the fall. The festival scenes of celebration would have been hard to envision, a year earlier, when Arthur Burnett's Ward photographs shed light on the realities of Ward life and raised awareness of the need for settlement services.