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In 2001 and 2003, the records of the Elgin County House of Industry were transferred directly from Elgin Manor to the Elgin County Archives. More than a century of records such as registers of inmates and visitors, time books, physician's log books, newsletters and daily journals, describe how a late-nineteenth-century House of Industry for the sick, infirm, disabled, intemperate, homeless and abandoned, was transformed into a modern long-term care facility.
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On 18 June 1875, Elgin County Council authorized the purchase of fifty acres of land on Talbot Road East, two miles west of St. Thomas, to establish an "industrial farm" and "House of Industry and Refuge." At the end...
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