Fred Victor's history can be traced back to 1886 when a pragmatic and visionary woman named Mary Sheffield started a Sunday School for 'rough and neglected' boys.Eight years later, in 1894, manufacturer and financier, Hart Massey a member of the Metropolitan Methodist Church, constructed a building at the corner of Queen and Jarvis streets in Toronto to house the mission that Mary Sheffield had started. He named the mission after his youngest son, Fred Victor.From the 1930s to the 1960s, Fred Victor Mission was known for its 'Mission of the Air', a church service radio broadcast with Reverend Wesley Hunnisett at the helm, and as a shelter where homeless men could get a meal and a bed for the night. more... See more text