Children's Home of Winnipeg ca.1885-ca.1997 (Incorp. 1887) Originally boys under 6 and girls under 14. River Avenue had a capacity of 55 children. Total numbers are in the 1000s. Bannatyne/Assiniboine Ave./Portage Ave., Winnipeg, MB 1885-ca.1888 198/200 River Ave., Winnipeg, MB ca.1888-ca.1918 Academy Road, Winnipeg, MB (with CAS of Winnipeg from 1937) ca.1918-ca.1944 Children's Home of Winnipeg (called New Directions for Children, Youth & Families from ca.1997). Client lists; registers; case files (1885-1945). --Records are in the custody of the Provincial Archives of Manitoba (Private Records) in Children's Home (P2155, P5434-P5455). Access is by written application to the Director of New Directions. Administrative Files (including minutes, annual reports, correspondence, acts & bylaws, financial records, property files, estates and bequests, clippings and pamphlets), 1887-1985. --Records are in the custody of the Provincial Archives of Manitoba (Private Records) in Children's Home (P2152-P2154, P2156-P2161, P5456-P5457). Access by application to the Director of New Directions. Children's Aid Society of Winnipeg Temporary & Permanent Ward Files, 1892-1985, access to which is governed by the Child & Family Services Act (generally allowing adults access to their own Children's Aid Society Ward Files). --Held by the Provincial Archives of Manitoba (Government Records). Access by application to the FIPPA Access & Privacy Coordinator, Manitoba Family Services & Housing. CAS of Winnipeg Absolute Adoption Files (include birth registrations, consent to surrender, medical reports), 1920-1985, in records of Community Services & Corrections (Government Record Description CSC 0156). --Held by the Provincial Archives of Manitoba (Government Records). Access by application to the Post-Adoption Registry (Manitoba). Around 1950, the Children's Home ceased to operate as an orphanage/shelter and became a residential treatment facility for children. In the early years of the Home the children attended public schools in Fort Rouge.