Housing
Justice
Archive


Ontario Coalition Against Poverty1990 - 2020
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
1998 - 2012
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
1998 - Present
Toronto Homeless Memorial
2000 - Present
Bob Rose’s Writing
1990 - Present
The Housing Justice Convergence2024 - Present
Oral History Interview Transcripts
(in process)
2025 - Present

timothy martin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University
timothy_martin [at] sfu [dot] ca

Housing
Justice
Archive


Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
1998 - 2012
City of Toronto Archives
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
1990 - 2020
Ontario Provincial Archives
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
1998 - Present
VANDU Archive / SFU Special Collections
Toronto Homeless Memorial
2000 - Present    
City of Toronto Archives / Personal Collection / Rebecca Houston
Bob Rose’s Writing
[199- - 20--]
Bob Rose Personal Collection
Oral History Interview Transcripts
(in process)
2025 - Present
timothy martin


timothy martin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University
timothy_martin [at] sfu [dot] ca
The Toronto Homeless Memorial meets in Trinity Square in downtown Toronto on the second Tuesday of every month to read the names of those who have died without housing and to announce that this is not okay. The monthly memorial was founded by Bonnie Briggs, members of the TDRC, and other allies in 2000, but its earliest iterations can be traced back to the late 1980s. For more information, visit homelessmemorials.com  



“We are you” Memorial Project Committee. (c. 1997). [“We Are You” Memorial draft sketch]. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543937, Fonds 335, Series 1779, File 416).
Tom Smarda, c. 2000.

From Tom Smarda, personal collection.  
Dreamcatcher installation, November 2006.

Bacque, Graeme. (2006, November 14). [Homeless Memorial photograph 28: Dreamcatcher installation]. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543966, Fonds 335, Series 1780, File 11).

Bonnie Briggs, 2004.

Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. (2004). Bonnie Briggs. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543929, Fonds 335, Series 1779, File 194).
Activist Dusty Fiske’s “gravestone” in Trinity Square, 2005.

Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. (2005, August 8). [Vigil photo 152: Dusty Fiske memorial artwork]. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543966, Fonds 335, Series 1780, File 11).

Toronto Homeless Memorial service, 2006.

Bacque, Graeme. (2006) [Homeless Memorial photograph 66]. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543966, Fonds 335, Series 1780, File 11).
Jack Layton speaking at the memorial, Fall 2006.

Bacque, Graeme. (2006). [Jack Layton]. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543966, Fonds 335, Series 1780, File 11).
Bob Rose speaking at the memorial, Fall 2006.

Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. (2006, Bob Rose]. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543966, Fonds 335, Series 1780, File 11).

Cathy Crowe, Tanya Gulliver, and Don Heap (in foreground) at the memorial, c. 2006.

Crowe, C. (n.d.). [Photograph: Tanya Gulliver, Cathy Crowe, and Don Heap at homeless memorial]. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543966, Fonds 335, Series 1780, File 6).
Bonnie and Kerre Briggs speaking at the memorial, 2006.


Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. (2006, October 10). [Homeless Memorial October 10, 2006 photograph 2487: Bonnie and Kerre Briggs]. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543966, Fonds 335, Series 1780, File 11).  
Melvin Tipping speaking at the memorial, 2006.


Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. (2006, December 12). [Homeless Memorial photograph 90: Melvin Tipping]. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543966, Fonds 335, Series 1780, File 11).  
Tom Smarda, 2006.

Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. (2006, October 10). [Homeless Memorial October 10, 2006 photograph 14: Tom]. City of Toronto Archives (Box 543966, Fonds 335, Series 1780, File 11).
Poster from Rebecca Houston’s Stone and Glass, March 9, 2016.

From Rayna Slobodian.
Projection from Rebecca Houston’s Stone and Glass, March 9, 2016.

From Rebecca Houston’s online portfolio.
Photograph from Rebecca Houston’s Stone and Glass, March 9, 2016.

From Rebecca Houston’s online portfolio.
Projections from Rebecca Houston’s Stone and Glass, March 9, 2016.

From Rebecca Houston’s online portfolio.
The memorial monument in transition, 2022. “Ducky’s” marble mosaic still visible, with tulips, drum, and cast-iron pan for smudging.

From timothy martin, personal collection.
The memorial arch  (designed by Rebecca Houston with iron work from Phil Sarazen), with community member’s memorial tiles in the background.


From timothy martin, personal collection.

The Toronto Homeless Memorial current monument, designed and painted by Sam Boucher, 2023.

From timothy martin, personal collection.