About Us
How to reach us
Address: 870 Richmond Square
Montreal, QC, H3J 1V7
Metro: Georges Vanier
(Orange Line)
Office
Hours:8:30 to 4:30 Monday to Friday
Telephone: (514) 931-6265
Fax: (514) 931-1343
Email:
tsgadmin@videotron.ca
History
Past
It was late in
the year 1926 as industrialist Charles Johnson sat in his Ville
St. Pierre office. He was thinking of his employees, many of
whom were living in the area we now know as Little Burgundy.
Johnson had a strong social conscience. He was concerned with
the workers’ material, social, moral and spiritual welfare. A
man of action, Johnson approached Montreal Presbyterian
community with his plan for a “settlement house” to keep the
children off the street and the need for a structure and
financing to support it. Motivated and persuasive, he came away
with a grant of $100 from his colleagues to cover the first
year’s operation. With this and the support of the Johnson
family, Tyndale House came into being in early 1927. In the
1970’s the Anglican Diocese of Montreal joined The Presbyterian
Church in Canada in support of Tyndale which then became known
as Tyndale St-Georges.
From the
outset, Tyndale House focussed on services for youth. It has
never lost that emphasis, while broadening its sphere of
activities to meet the needs of the surrounding community. It
has been instrumental in the creation of offshoot services: Le
Garde-Manger pour tous, Youth in Motion, the Little Burgundy
Council, the Coalition de la Petite-Bourgogne, the Little
Burgundy Festival, Action Refugee Montreal and most recently the
CPE Tyndale St-Georges, a subsidized day-care centre.
Present
In keeping with
its past, Tyndale St-Georges Community Centre continues to work
as a not-for-profit charitable organization, providing services
to more than 2,000 members of the Little Burgundy community
through programs extending from pre-school to adult development
without regard to race or religious affiliation. Our aspiration
is to aid individuals and families, to lives of greater
self-reliance and fulfilment. Through educational, cultural,
social, and recreational programs we provide encouragement,
tools,
opportunities,
and support. Today over 2,000 people use our services every
year.
Our Team
Patricia Murphy
Executive Director
Rev. Allan Marjerison
Chaplain
Iva Gray
Administration
Leslie Vas
Accounting
Winnie Grady
Language Classes
Lynn Thomson
Early Childhood
Irmeli Vastamaa-Francis
Volunteer Department
Department of School Age Children, Youth, and Families
Cynthia Homan
Little Burgundy Employment Center
Anne Metcalfe
C.P.E. Tyndale
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