St. Alban's History
History
History of St. Alban's Boys and Girls Club
St. Alban’s Boys Sports Club was founded by Toronto Police Inspector W.H. (Bill) Bolton in 1949. The Club began with 25 boys in the basement of St. Alban’s Parish Hall.
During the late fifties, the Club’s membership expanded to 300 boys and beyond the capacity of the parish hall. On October 17, 1961 the new Club at 843 Palmerston Avenue was opened. That same year, St. Alban’s was accepted as a member agency of the United Way of Greater Toronto. In 1978, the Club was renamed St. Alban’s Boys and Girls Club.
In 1999, St. Alban’s merged with Jane and Finch Boys and Girls Club. With this successful outreach model we continued to grow to offer much needed children and youth programs in multiple locations in the Jane and Finch, Weston-Mount Dennis, Lawrence Heights and Bathurst and Dupont communities.
In 2013, the Club opened our next generation building project – The Jane and Finch Boys and Girls Club Youth Centre.
A long time dream of the Club staff and leadership was realized when we purchased a campground on Howland Lake in Minden Hills in 2018.
With a name change in 2021, we are now known as BGC St. Alban's Club and continue to strive to serve the changing needs of the communities in which we operate.
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MAIN CLUBHOUSE
416-534-8461
843 Palmerston Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6G 2R8
info@stalbansclub.ca
We respectfully acknowledge Toronto is on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.
