This photograph from the Child Welfare Exhibit was entitled "A human rookery, Montreal Tenements, Wanted Model Dwellings for Workers' Children". The organizers of the Child Welfare Exhibit were exceedingly naive. "Model tenements" would only be built if significant numbers of the building and zoning codes were transformed and the new laws rapidly enforced. "Philanthrophy plus five percent", the slogan H.B. Ames had used when constructing his model housing project "Diamond Court" in 1897 (see: H.B. Ames The City Below the Hill, University of Toronto Press, 1973) had no hope of attracting investors when double the return could be expected from housing built to the city's minimal standards.
