How the Ontario Reformatory for Boys Became the Penetanguishene Asylum for the Insane
In 1859 the Government of Canada established a reformatory of boys as an alternative to inprisoning young offenders alongside adult criminals. The first youth inmates were housed temporarily in an abandoned military barracks nearby and were put to work quarrying stone for their new quarters under supervision. They erected this building in four phases between 1861 and 1880. In 1904 the Government of Ontario passed an order-in-council abolishing the Reformatory for Boys. The vacated facility became the Penetanguishene Asylum for the Insane on August 15, 1904. It served as an active treatment center until 1922 and now houses the administrative offices of the Mental Health Center.
500 Church Street
Penetanguishene,
ON
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