Blake, Samuel Hume National Historic Person

Toronto, Ontario
Samuel H. Blake, n.d. but likely the 1890s. (© Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ontario | Collège Wycliffe, Toronto, Ontario)
Samuel H. Blake, circa 1890s.
(© Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ontario | Collège Wycliffe, Toronto, Ontario)
Address : Toronto, Ontario

Recognition Statute: Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date: 2025-02-07
Life Date: 1835 to 1914

Other Name(s):
  • Samuel Hume Blake  (Designation Name)
Research Report Number: 20924-08, 2024-08-A

Importance: Influential lawyer, judge, orator, author, evangelical activist, and Anglican lay leader who advocated social reform for the closure of residential schools for Indigenous children