Fred Victor Centre

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The Fred Victor Centre is a multi-service organization and a registered charity in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Centre's mandate is to provide assistance to men and women who live in extreme poverty and are marginally housed or homeless.

The centre started in 1894 as an outreach mission of the Methodist Church to address the basic needs of homeless and transient men. It was located at the corner of Queen and Jarvis Streets - where the current subsidized supportive housing division of Fred Victor Centre now stands.

Of the many programs and services Fred Victor Centre provides, its primary services delivery centres around a women's shelter, supportive housing, housing support and outreach, employment resourcing, and a handful of diverse drop-ins and clinics that have become very well established among the lower income and street-active single adult populations of downtown Toronto.

Fred Victor Centre is named after the son of former Governor General and one time benefactor Vincent Massey, who died very young.