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Abe and Bertha Palmer family fonds

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Collection: Abe and Bertha Palmer family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 1 file, 2 photographs : b&w

Fonds No.: I0002

Date: ca. 1971

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of news clippings; an advertisement for Rideau Plumbing and Heating; and 2 photographs.

Collection: Abe and Bertha Palmer family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 1 file, 2 photographs : b&w

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of news clippings; an advertisement for Rideau Plumbing and Heating; and 2 photographs.

Date: ca. 1971

Fonds No.: I0002

Storage Location: A.1.1 - Individuals Boxes

History / Biographical: Abe Palmer, son of Moshe and Rose Palmer, was born at Billings Bridge, Ottawa. When he was ten or eleven, the family moved to Ottawa and he attended Rideau Street Public School. Bertha Palmer was born in Navazibkoff, White Russia and came to Ottawa in 1927 as a young woman of 16 or 17 years of age with her senior matriculations and a fine singing voice. SHe was sponsored by her uncle Louis Leiken who had come to Ottawa in 1910 with her father, Joseph Leiken. Bertha Palmer became the first UJA Women's Division chair in 1972. Abe Palmer was a successful businessman. Early in his business life he had a partnership with his cousin Abraham Held, in a business called Rideau Plumbing and Heating Limited. Then he established a wholesale plumbing and heating business called Palmer’s Plumbing and Heating Supply Limited. He sold this business in the 1960's to a Calgary firm called Westburn Industries Ltd. He was a “mover and shaker” in that industry and was the Plumbing Division Chairman of the Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating. The Palmers were always active and highly respected in the Ottawa Jewish community and were among the founders of the Ottawa Modern Jewish School. Abe served two terms as chairman of Israel Bonds in the late 1960's and was President of the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa from 1970-1972.

Notes: 1. Family information from the Palmer’s daughter, Sunny Tavel, July, 2006. Her Uncle Louis and her grandfather Joseph Leiken came to Canada in 1910. Joseph died in 1914 and is buried in Ottawa. Bertha came with her sister-in-law Zena Leiken, and two nieces, Libby Katz of Ottawa and Ethel Kesler of Montreal. Zena, Libby and Ethel were sponsored by Harry Leiken. When Bertha arrived in Ottawa, she lived with her Uncle Louis.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Abraham Kert Family fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101216

Collection: Abraham Kert Family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 1 file, 10 photographs : b&w

Fonds No.: I0008

Date: 1977 - 1978

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photocopied biographical information, 10 photographs : b&w.

Collection: Abraham Kert Family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 1 file, 10 photographs : b&w

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photocopied biographical information, 10 photographs : b&w.

Date: 1977 - 1978

Fonds No.: I0008

Storage Location: A.1.1 - Individuals Boxes

History / Biographical: Abraham Kert arrived in Canada in 1885 from Lithuania. He landed in Montreal and worked as a farmer and fur trader in Lancaster, Ontario, and in various locations in Quebec including Lachute, Harrington Lake (near Thurso), and in Buckingham where there were five other Jewish families. Around 1900, he moved his family to Ottawa “for the social possibilities for his daughters." Abraham Kert married twice and had two families. In Ottawa, Abraham was involved in peddling and in selling jewelry. He was an active member of the Adath Jeshurun Congregation and for many years he maintained the Ottawa Jewish Cemetery on Bank Street.

Notes: Abraham Kert’s birth date is problematic. He was likely born sometime between 1847 and 1856. (The 1901 census indicated is age as 45 years, giving him a birth date of 1856. His headstone in the Ottawa Jewish Cemetery gives his age as 97, with a death year of 1944, indicating his birth year would be 1847.)

Related Material: 1. Betsy (Elizabeth) Kert wedding invitation, 1901 in Samuel Caplan fonds. 2. Betsy (Elizabeth) Benwick was interviewed by Shirley Berman, 1972, see OJHS fonds.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Children of Sarah Rosenstein

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106281

Collection: Abraham Kert Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0008; OJA 1-108

Date: 1918

1 image

Collection: Abraham Kert Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: 1918

Fonds No.: I0008

Item No.: OJA 1-108

Notes: Inscription in ink on verso of photograph read: "Children of Aunt Sarah Rosenstein. Ethel Buster and Joe Rosenstein - boy - dressed as a girl, regardless of curls and dress. Wanted to keep."