Flowers Brighten Lives of Factory Girls and Street Urchins

Wednesday, 01 October 2008 00:00

Hundreds of girls, weary from a long day's work in Toronto's factories and sweatshops, and vagrant street urchins, were turned loose in 1912 to pick flowers from the former home of Ontario's lieutenant governors. When they were finished, no flowers were left in the gardens, but there were flowers in the homes and hearts of hundreds of young girls.