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Scope and Content: Fonds consists of a program of Anna Wolfe Margosches: lecture - recital, April 9th, 1932 (?); photocopy of Reminiscences of Jewish life in Ottawa, Ottawa Hebrew News September, 1934; 1937, 1938 and 1950 speeches on biblical music; newspaper clipping of wedding of Sylvia Margosches to Arnold Haltre…

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of a program of Anna Wolfe Margosches: lecture - recital, April 9th, 1932 (?); photocopy of Reminiscences of Jewish life in Ottawa, Ottawa Hebrew News September, 1934; 1937, 1938 and 1950 speeches on biblical music; newspaper clipping of wedding of Sylvia Margosches to Arnold Haltrecht, 1942; three copies of, "How to Honour the Flag Code, 5th ed." copyright held by Anna Wolfe Margosches (item no. 1-1009), Ottawa Canada 1951; hardcover Song Book entitled " Songs of Zion" Souvenir of the Jewish Women's Congress with spine label reads "Principal Melodies of the Synagogue" printed in Chicago 1893, inscribed "Anna Wolfe Margoshes Ottawa, Canada 1919"; 1 photograph b&w of Anna Wolfe Margosches, 8 scanned images (jpg) of Sylvia and Arnold Haltrecht and family.

History / Biographical: Anna Wolfe Margosches was born in New York, daughter of Max and Rachael Wolfe. Max Wolfe was a furrier and from Poland. Anna Wolfe attended Loretta College in Toronto and was married in 1911. She pursued a heightened, social outlet for women in Ottawa. She gave lectures and recitals at the Chateau Laurier and directed pageants. In 1934, she founded the Lord Reading Club which met once a month at the Chateau Laurier. She was an intellectual and was very much a society person. She did not pursue any Zionist causes. She was also a trained musician and sang at Dr. Geldart's radio station in Ottawa. She had a daughter, Sylvia who married Arnold Haltrecht, and was a cousin of Barney Danson the Federal Government cabinet minister.

Acquisition Source: Speeches, newspaper clipping, and "How to honour the flag code" donated by Merle Haltrecht-Matte, February, 2001. Song book donated in 2011.

Notes: 1. A short biographical entry in "Prominent Jews in Canada," 1933. 2. Biographical information obtained from Shirley Berman, Founding Archivist, Ottawa Jewish Archives.

Scope and Content: Correspondence from prominent Canadians including several expressing sympathy for Jews massacred in Russia as well as immigration. Notes for speeches on finance, Jews and Conservatism. Press clippings relating to politics, various Jewish causes, religion, finance and trade with Mexico. Biographical…

Scope and Content: Correspondence from prominent Canadians including several expressing sympathy for Jews massacred in Russia as well as immigration. Notes for speeches on finance, Jews and Conservatism. Press clippings relating to politics, various Jewish causes, religion, finance and trade with Mexico. Biographical articles in Yiddish.

History / Biographical: Born in London in 1834, Mr. Ansell was educated in England and Germany. He came to Canada in 1860. He was an ardent British imperialist, and was acquainted with John A. MacDonald and George-Etienne Cartier from pre-Confederation times. In his "Welding the Lines of Union" he unfolded a scheme similar to the one later advocated by Joseph Chamberlain. Appointed Consul-General for Mexico in Canada, he resigned in 1913 due to age. He was deeply involved in Jewish educational and philanthropic work, and was the first chairman of the Canadian Committee of Jewish Colonization Association. He was a charter member and for 17 years president of Baron de Hirsch Institute and was instrumental in passing of legislation giving equal rights to Jewish children in public schools in Montreal. He died in Montreal in 1914.