It feels like home – with home-like amenities that provide a warm atmosphere. Artwork adorns the walls, paintings are all around – people enjoying each other’s company. It is peaceful, it is welcoming. That is what strikes you when you enter the Lilacs, which hosts ‘The Club.’
The Club is a program specifically geared to the slower pace of our aging core members and those who need a more recreational approach to daily life. This brings together a group of people who enjoy baking, artwork, bowling and watching television with a chance for a nap during the day. Our senior core members connect with other seniors’ programs in the wider community of Richmond Hill, so as to develop other friendships and interests outside of L’Arche Daybreak.
The Club is calm, yet crowded.
A renovation to the Lilacs will dramatically improve the setting for The Club. The living room will be expanded to better accommodate walkers and wheelchairs. The expansion will also provide more natural light with all its proven health benefits.

During my Monday afternoon visits we often go through some of The Club’s many photo albums or someone’s life story book. Many of the memories we share reach back decades; sometimes they are funny and sometimes they are sad. It is wonderful to learn and share with people who live such rich and diverse lives.

– Tom Peace, Historian, York University