Dee Why Home for Boys

• Paradise Boys' Industrial Colony (1897 - 1903)
• Manly Boys' Probationary Home (1903 - 1924)
• Dee Why Home for Boys (1924 – 1936)

Run by

• The Salvation Army Australia Eastern Territory (1921 - 2018)

Related Organisations

• Gill Memorial Boys' Home (1936 - 1980)
  When Dee Why Home for Boys was closed some of the boys were sent to Gill Memorial Boys' Home in Goulburn.
• Bexley Boys' Home (1915 - 1979)
  When Dee Why Home for Boys was closed some of the boys were sent to Bexley Boys' Home.
• Children's Court of New South Wales (October 1905 - current)

Related Concepts

• Probation (c. 1905 - current)

This page was written by Melissa Downing, last updated 15 February 2023. Sources used to create this entry:

• The Salvation Army Australia Eastern Territory, Submission No. 46 to the Senate Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care: The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territorial Headquarters (VIC), Appendix B, Eastern Territory Social Centres, A list of openings, closings and function, June 2003 View Publication Details

• Boys' Home: First Arrivals, Goulburn Evening Penny Post, 29 September 1936. View Publication Details

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Records

• Salvation Army Australia, Records of Homes in the former Eastern Territory (c. 1891 - 1990s)