John Joseph Kelso Papers. 1919-1935.

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John Joseph Kelso Papers. 1919-1935.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225558931

The collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on child immigration to Canada as well as other miscellaneous items related to Kelso's work in social work. It also includes a typescript copy of Kelso's biography.

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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7065083

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

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Kelso, J. J. (John Joseph), 1864-

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Born in 1864, John Joseph Kelso, better known as J.J., was an Irish immigrant who, though a school dropout, eventually landed a full-time job at the Globe newspaper in 1887 as a police reporter. It's his role as a community activist, however, that Kelso is best known. Responding to the misery he saw among the destitute children of Toronto, he founded the Toronto Humane Society, which was originally meant to prevent cruelty to animals, women and children. In 1891, he organized and became the firs...