High Park Forest School

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The High Park Forest School was first created around the beginning of the 1900s. It was initially a place for children with tuberculosis but through the years it became a summer school for underprivileged children.

Poor children from Toronto's public schools attended the school in the summer months to augment their education and also get good nutritious foods to help them become healthy.

There were also programs for weekly swimming and each day children were obliged to take blankets stored at the school and have naps in the afternoon.

The objective was to provide underprivileged children who ordinarily would have spent their summer days on the streets of Toronto a place to go for good food, good activities, good health and good education. All the things the Toronto Board of Education felt poor children would miss out on without this program.

High Park Forest School ceased existence as a school for poor children in the early 1960s. The original main building still exists today. It is located just inside the main entrance of High Park from Bloor Street West in Toronto.