Veith House is an organization whose mission is to meet the needs of children, individuals and families, with empowerment as an ever-present goal.

The orphanage was founded by Reverend Robert Fitzgerald Uniacke (rector of St. George Church) in 1857 and was previously located on North Park Street.

Among those who worked there as staff during the 1890s was matron Lucy Anne Rogers Butler, an educator and social worker who had spent her early 30s documenting her 1870s travel experiences with her sea captain husband.

[1][2] The orphanage was relocated to Veith Street where it was destroyed in the Halifax Explosion in 1917, claiming the lives of both children and staff.

The property was then transferred to the Halifax Children's Foundation, to be used as the Veith House Community Centre and is still running today.