The Toronto Homeless Memorial is a memorial to people who died while living on the streets, or in
homeless shelters, in
Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...
, Canada. The memorial includes the names of those who died and is updated monthly.
Memorial
The memorial is located outside the
Church of the Holy Trinity and it is maintained by church staff and community members. As of December 2021, it included approximately 1,200 names
of people who died while living in homeless shelters or the streets of Toronto.
The names of the deceased are added on the second Tuesday of every month.
History
The memorial was started in 1997 by
Bonnie Briggs, a housing advocate.
The list of names on the memorial reached 1,000 in the year 2020.
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In December 2021, memorial organisers added 34 names to the memorial, the highest ever added at once; names included
John Doe
John Doe (male) and Jane Doe (female) are multiple-use placeholder names that are used in the British, Canadian, and American legal systems, when the true name of a person is unknown or is being intentionally concealed. In the context of law ...
and
Jane Doe placeholders as the names of some of the deceased were unknown.
See also
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Homelessness in Canada
Homelessness in Canada was not a social problem until the 1980s. The Canadian government housing policies and programs in place throughout the 1970s were based on a concept of shelter as a basic need or requirement for survival and of the obligati ...
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Affordable housing in Canada
References
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1997 establishments in Ontario
Homelessness in Canada
Monuments and memorials in Toronto