By Helen Caister Robinson
A long time of worrying: the large Sister tale is a list of the pains, blunders, and accomplishments of a firm of Toronto girls who've carried a torch for formative years via reliable years and undesirable from 1912 to the current time. the writer has endeavoured to set out these evidence that have formed the expansion of the large Sister organization from a small staff of involved girls, encouraged through th emotional idea of being an important Sister to socially disadvantaged younger individuals, to the current day association which sponsors the various faceted adolescence business enterprise, Huntley adolescence companies.
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Conference Club members were disappointed but not discouraged. In spite of the decision of the Board of Councillors they were determined to provide some form of recreational facility for Little Sisters. In addition to their other responsibilities, the Executive Committee in 1918, developed the following statement of the reforms for which the Big Sisters would press in order to improve the quality of life of the young people known to them. THE BIG SISTER PLATFORM, 1918 Good housing Supervised boarding homes where girls can get comfortable and cheerful bedrooms, and where there would be accommodation in which to entertain friends other than in their bedrooms.
Twelve dollars a month was not considered a particularly low wage by the employer for a girl who lived in, with everything included except personal articles and clothing to wear on her day off. The fact that demands for service could be 49 made on the girl from the time she arose in the morning until bedtime seemed irrelevent to many women. Although a number of girls were placed as domestics, the Big Sisters found jobs for others in factories, restaurants and shops. While the majority of cases processed were passed to the Big Sisters from the juvenile court, there were referrals also by other agencies, school principals and the employment offices of large business establishments such as the Robert Simpson Company, T.
By 1923 the Executive was examining the budget very carefully to determine how it could provide more counselling for a larger number of girls. The Copper Beach Club camp, auxiliary project of the Girls' Club was closed in August, and the funds budgeted for its operation were utilized for casework service. The Board agreed that as a supplement to the counselling service it had outlived its usefulness. The following year the Big Sisters were able to place girls in need of a holiday in camps operated by other agencies at a considerable decrease in cost.
