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Alex Fonberg fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101169
- Collection
- Alex Fonberg fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 textual record and 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0013
- Date
- [193-?] and 2005
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of 1 photograph : b&w of Fonberg’s Fruit and Grocery market, with Alex Fonberg and his son Ralph; and 1 newspaper clipping.
- Collection
- Alex Fonberg fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 textual record and 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of 1 photograph : b&w of Fonberg’s Fruit and Grocery market, with Alex Fonberg and his son Ralph; and 1 newspaper clipping.
- Date
- [193-?] and 2005
- Fonds No.
- I0013
- Storage Location
- A.1.1 - Individuals Boxes
- History / Biographical
- Alex Fonberg (b. December 24, 1895- d. May 19,1976) arrived in Ottawa from near Odessa, Belarus in 1905. He was sponsored by Oscar and or Leon Petigorsky. Alex Fonberg married Ida Dworkin in Ottawa on March 12, 1917. He worked as a house painter before entering the grocery business opening his first shop on Booth Street. Seeking a better location, he bought 816 Somerset for $4,100 in March, 1929. The store was open from 9 in the morning until 9 in the evening and only hired help during the Jewish holidays. The family lived above the store with the whole family assisting in the shop's operation. Alex suffered a heart condition which prompted his retirement in 1951. At this time he sold the Somerset building for $13,000 and moved to the west end. He died of a heart attack in 1976. Alex and Ida had four children; Lora, Dina (who died as an infant), Ralph and Sylvia. When the family lived in Centretown they attended B’nai Jacob congregation, and when they moved to the west end, they attended Agudath Israel congregation.
- Notes
- 1. Photograph from a negative donated to the Ottawa Jewish Archives by Liz Kronick in 2005. 2. Information obtained from Storehouse of dreams in Ottawa Citizen, May 14, 2005 and Liz Kronick’s family records. Alex Fonberg’s passport lists 1892 as a birth date. Birth date on the back of the Naturalization Certificate is illegible. Liz Kronick stated that his birth date was December 24, 1895. 3. Sylvia Fonberg (Rosenes) is Liz Kronick’s mother.
- Related Material
- See Kronick family folder in Images database for more photos.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Fonberg’s Fruit and Grocery Market
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103680
- Collection
- Alex Fonberg fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0013; OJA 1-699
- Date
- [193-?]
- Collection
- Alex Fonberg fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- [193-?]
- Fonds No.
- I0013
- Item No.
- OJA 1-699
- Storage Location
- vault
- Physical Condition
- Some creases at the top of photograph.
- Acquisition Source
- Liz Kronick
- Notes
- Pictured are with Alex Fonberg and his son Ralph. The store was located at 816 Somerset Street Ottawa, and burned down in 2005.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
Ralph, Alex, Ida, Sylvia, Sid and Lora Fonberg Shapiro in front of Fonberg Grocery Store.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn105508
- Collection
- Alex Fonberg fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- I0013; OJA 1-903
- Date
- [194-?]
- Collection
- Alex Fonberg fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- [194-?]
- Fonds No.
- I0013
- Item No.
- OJA 1-903
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
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