Merton Street Gospel Mission

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2007

Here, in Mission Ground Parkette at 399 Merton Street, is a 1976 Toronto Historical Board plaque. This is what it says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.698472 -79.384444

On this site from 1890 to 1970 stood the Merton Street Gospel Mission, a non-denominational church and one of the first centres of worship in the Davisville community. It sponsored missionary and charitable works and adopted war orphans around the world. Instrumental in its founding was Dr. Emma L. Skinner Gordon, one of the first women doctors in Canada and an inspiration behind the establishment of Women's College Hospital. In 1898 she started at the Mission both the Baraca and Philethea Societies, which were religious and educational clubs.

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