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CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44053
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Date
- [1700-2002].
- Scope and Content
- The collection housed at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Museum and Archives (and Library) numbers approximately 15,000 objects and approximately 6,500 Judaic books. The Museum collection includes Jewish liturgical and ritual objects, as well as secular and Israeli cultural objects. The Archiva…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Scope and Content
- The collection housed at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Museum and Archives (and Library) numbers approximately 15,000 objects and approximately 6,500 Judaic books. The Museum collection includes Jewish liturgical and ritual objects, as well as secular and Israeli cultural objects. The Archival holdings are comprised of an extensive collection of photographic and textual records, including a photographic collection documenting Jewish life in Canada and Europe, and textual records of institutional and personal provenance, comprised of correspondence, synagogue bulletins and other papers, official acts, and birth and wedding certificates. The Archives houses video and audio interviews with congregation members and staff as well as recordings of public lectures. The Shaar Hashomayim Archives also houses minute books, birth, marriage, and death registers of Montreal Jewry from 1857. Researchers wishing to learn more details about the minutes and registers portions of the collection must contact the synagogue directly. The Library holdings include a Judaic rare book collection. The Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives holdings are thematically divided into four categories of information: Archives, Decorative arts, Fine Arts, and Human History. The Archives division includes Prints and drawings, Manuscripts, Films and videos, Photographs, Sound recordings, Textual records, as well as Artifacts pertaining to Canadian Jewish life. The Decorative Arts collection includes Moroccan and Ethiopian Jewish folk art, American Jewish folk art, European Jewish folk art, ceramics, porcelain, pottery, glass, metalwork, silverwork, goldwork, textiles, and tapestries. The Fine Arts collection includes oil paintings, illuminated manuscripts, tapestry, sculpture, watercolor, lithographs, diverse collections of Jewish artists covering a range of subjects, i.e. Holocaust, portraiture, Biblical renditions etc. The Human History collection is related to Jewish communal and religious life in Canada and includes archaeological objects, ceremonial objects, costumes and accessories, currency, furniture and furnishings, household objects and domestic technology, film, photographs, video, manuscripts, medals, memorabilia, religious and liturgical objects.
- Date
- [1700-2002].
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- History / Biographical
- The Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, which is the second oldest synagogue in Canada as well as the oldest Ashkenazi synagogue, was founded in Montreal in 1846 by English, German and Polish Jews. Having been members of the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, they decided that they wanted to be able to attend Ashkenazi services. Thus, the congregation began its life in a rented room on St. James Street, and after several moves, it obtained land at Kensington Avenue and Côte St. Antoine in Westmount in 1920. This new synagogue was completed in 1922, and the congregation has worshipped at this location ever since. Throughout its early history, the congregation continued to have ties with the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, but in 1918 the name Congregation Shaar Hashomayim was incorporated and it in turn separated from the former. After the Second World War a school was added to the congregation and because so many families had joined the synagogue it was further expanded in 1967. Though Orthodox by charter, the congregation is Conservative.Additional historical information about the Congregation can be seen in the attached PDF document (5179K.)
- Notes
- General note:The items shown on this website were digitized in 2001 for the Canadian Jewish Virtual Museum and Archives project (CJVMA) funded by CHIN (The Canadian Heritage Information Network). They were previously displayed on a website located at www.cjvma.org. All the displayed items from this collection are copyright the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Documents
Images
MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45523
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Fonds No.
- MHMC-01
- Date
- [1700-2008].
- Scope and Content
- The MHMC acquires and preserves artefacts, documents and testimonies of Holocaust witnesses for study, reference, and presentation to the public, together with information about them. The Museum collection holds more than 9,700 items consisting of over 4,800 textual records (including 2,000 items o…
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Scope and Content
- The MHMC acquires and preserves artefacts, documents and testimonies of Holocaust witnesses for study, reference, and presentation to the public, together with information about them. The Museum collection holds more than 9,700 items consisting of over 4,800 textual records (including 2,000 items of correspondence), 3,400 graphic material items (including 3,000 photographs) and 1,500 objects related to the history of the Holocaust. Among the objects collected are personal objects, household items, ceremonial artefacts, currency and artworks created before and during the Second World War. The majority of these objects is directly linked to personal stories and therefore has a unique value. The items in collection originate from over 60 different countries and are written in 30 different languages. The collection also comprises over 3,000 hours of video interviews representing the life stories of 500 Holocaust survivors interviewed by the MHMC. Materials in the MHMC Collection illustrate and document the prewar life of communities that were persecuted by the Nazi party (National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP) regime; the crimes of the NSDAP regime and its collaborators; the world's response to the NSDAP regime and its occupation of Europe and the experience of Holocaust victims including resistance, rescue, and life in hiding. The Collection also holds items recording the experience of Holocaust survivors after Liberation, such as the postwar resettlement experience (Displaced Persons' camp), the re-emergence of Jewish life after the war and immigration of Holocaust survivors to Canada directly after the war and the pursuit of justice through war crimes trials.
- Date
- [1700-2008].
- Fonds No.
- MHMC-01
- History / Biographical
- The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre was founded in 1979 by a group of Holocaust survivors and other members of the Montreal Jewish community. The first objects, documents and photographs which were to form the basis of the collection were donated by Holocaust survivors living in Montreal. The MHMC museum was opened in 1979 to the public in the Federation CJA building on Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road and soon reached schools and other groups with temporary exhibitions and survivor testimony. In 1991, the Centre was incorporated under federal jurisdiction. In 2001, the Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications recognized the Centre as a museum institution. In June 2003, following a period of renovations and extension, the new permanent exhibition of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Museum was inaugurated by Canada's Prime Minister and the Premier of Quebec. The MHMC Museum is open to the public year-round and presents over 380 artefacts in its permanent exhibition. The Museum now reaches over 15,500 visitors each year, as well as many thousands other participants through educational events and pedagogical tools. The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre educates people of all ages and backgrounds about the Holocaust, while sensitizing the public to the universal perils of antisemitism, racism, hate and indifference. Through its Museum, its commemorative programs and educational initiatives, the Centre promotes respect for diversity and the sanctity of human life.
- Notes
- General note :The Collection is documented according to the Info-Muse Network documentation system based on standards proposed by the Canadian Heritage Information Network.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn2
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 361.57 metres of textual records. - Env. 14100 photographs. - 1531 sound elements. - 43 films. - 1017 videos.
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Date
- 1765-present.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of several classes of material, as described in the series descriptions below. While the CJC materials begin in 1919, Series Z, the documentation collection, contains material that precedes this date, a few items going back even as far as the earliest settlement of Jews in C…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 361.57 metres of textual records. - Env. 14100 photographs. - 1531 sound elements. - 43 films. - 1017 videos.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of several classes of material, as described in the series descriptions below. While the CJC materials begin in 1919, Series Z, the documentation collection, contains material that precedes this date, a few items going back even as far as the earliest settlement of Jews in Canada in the late 18th century.
- Date
- 1765-present.
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- History / Biographical
- Canadian Jewish Congress was founded in Montreal in March 1919. "The Parliament of Canadian Jewry," CJC was constituted as the democratically elected, national organizational voice of the Jewish community of Canada, serving as the community's vehicle for defence and representation. Committed to preserving and strengthening Jewish life, CJC acted on matters affecting the status, rights and welfare of the Canadian Jewish community, other Diaspora communities and the Jewish people in Israel. CJC combatted antisemitism and racism, promoted human rights, fostered interfaith, cross-cultural relations and worked towards tolerance, understanding and goodwill among all segments of society in a multicultural Canada. The organization spoke on a broad range of public policy, humanitarian and social-justice issues on the national agenda that affected the Jewish community and Canadian society at large. Through its charitable operations, CJC provided domestic and international relief aid on a non-sectarian basis, following natural disasters and to isolated Jewish communities in need. The Archives department also fell under the mandate of CJC Charities Committee. In 1999 the CJC national office relocated to Ottawa, with three regional CJC offices (Quebec, Ontario and Pacific), as well as affiliated offices across the country. CJC ceased operations in July 2011, when it was absorbed into the newly-created Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), along with the Canada-Israel Committee, the Quebec-Israel Committee, National Jewish Campus Life and the University Outreach Committee. CJC and its charitable wing were formally disbanded in late 2015. Since that time the CJCCC National Archives, renamed the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives as of January 2016, functions under the aegis of Jewish Federations Canada UIA.
- Custodial History
- Both the national headquarters and the Quebec Jewish Congress (formerly Quebec Region, Eastern Region) offices of the Canadian Jewish Congress were located in Montreal until 1999, when most of the national office relocated to Ottawa. The National Archives is the repository of records created and received in these offices. The collection also includes materials from the National Office in Ottawa, as well as the national records of Manuel Prutschi, Bernie Farber, and other national departments based in Toronto and Vancouver. The regional offices of Canadian Jewish Congress outside Quebec are little represented in the collection, aside from correspondence from across the country and certain publications which were addressed to the national office.
- Notes
- General note: The number of paper records in this collection is subject to change, due to additions to Documentation Series Z as well as the ongoing weeding of duplications. Most of the material was created after 1919, with the exception of Series Z, which includes photocopies and a small number of originals dating back as far as 1765.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
SHEARITH ISRAEL SPANISH and PORTUGUESE SYNAGOGUE.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59
- Collection
- SHEARITH ISRAEL SPANISH and PORTUGUESE SYNAGOGUE.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.41 metres of textual records. - 7 photographs. - 5 artefacts.
- Fonds No.
- I0057
- Date
- 1770-1990.
- Scope and Content
- Proposals and by-laws (1778, 1826, 1838, 1844-1845, 1847, 1855, 1857, 1886, 1890, 1921). Legal documents (1887, 1916). Act of the synagogue (1890). Amalgamation documents (1874). Minutes (1770-1880, 1798, 1832, 1834, 1838-1839, 1846-1965, 1871-1904, 1908, 1922-1933, 1947, 1960). Reports (1911, 1922…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.41 metres of textual records. - 7 photographs. - 5 artefacts.
- Scope and Content
- Proposals and by-laws (1778, 1826, 1838, 1844-1845, 1847, 1855, 1857, 1886, 1890, 1921). Legal documents (1887, 1916). Act of the synagogue (1890). Amalgamation documents (1874). Minutes (1770-1880, 1798, 1832, 1834, 1838-1839, 1846-1965, 1871-1904, 1908, 1922-1933, 1947, 1960). Reports (1911, 1922, 1930). Financial documents (1836-1839, 1841, 1871, 1891, 1902, 1913-1916, 1920-1922, 1930, 1942-1943, 1945-1946). Cemetery documents (1855-1859, 1864-1865, 1871, 1900-1903, 1906, 1908-1909, 1913-1915, 1921-1922, 1941). Synagogue fees (1925). Seat prices (1920). Memberships, seats, subscriptions and seating plans (1835, 1837- 1838, 1840-1841, 1844-1845, 1847, 1850, 1855, 1873, 1876, 1888, 1894-1914, 1921-1922, 1941). Correspondence (1829, 1832-1833, 1835, 1838, 1840-1841, 1844-1847, 1851-1855, 1861, 1864, 1871-1874, 1876, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1887-1888, 1905, 1907-1908, 1912-1914, 1920, 1922, 1933, 1935-1936, 1943, 1946, 1956, 1969, 1970, 1972). Registers (births, etc., 1841- 1862). Quebec Legislative Council Journal (1826, 1831). Provincial Parliament Journal (1828- 1829, 1831, 1845). Legislative Assembly Debates (1846). Bulletins (1940-1946, 1951, 1957-1959). Bevis Marks Spanish and Portuguese bulletin (London, 1920). Rabbi Frank speech (1945). Duties of Shamash (1902) and caretaker (1905). Speech, services, dedication and anniversary booklets (1916, 1918-1919, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1945-1947, 1953, 1959-1960, 1963, 1970). Press releases (1922, 1927 y/e). 1838 census. Rabbinical ruling (1854). Hebrew philanthropic documents (1920-1922). Stanley Street blue print (1940) and sketch (1956). Canadian Jewish Congress school statistics and memos (1948). Student paper on synagogue (1982). Jewish Yearbook entries (1936, 1946, 1954, 1964). Chapters/articles on synagogue (1839, 1850-1851, 1903, 1925 (Sack, y), 1927, 1936, 1940, 1969, 1971, 1975). Jewish community facts (1953). Invitations, tickets, donation cards, flyers, campaign and meeting information. Synagogue stationery. Blank contract. Photocopies of pictures. Clippings (1853-1990 with gaps)
- Date
- 1770-1990.
- Fonds No.
- I0057
- History / Biographical
- The Shearith Israel Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue was founded in 1768 in Montreal by, among others, Simon Levy and Aaron Hart. Prominent members have included the families Joseph, Hays, David, Solomon and Wolff. As many of the original members (from England, Germany, and the American colonies) were descended from Spanish and Portuguese Jews, the Orthodox synagogue followed the Sepharadi customs. It was modelled on similar synagogues in London and New York. At first, a building was rented, and then a new one erected on Notre Dame in 1778. After several moves and buildings, the edifice at the present location on Lemieux Street was constructed in 1947. The famed Reverend Abraham de Sola and his son Meldola de Sola were rabbis of the synagogue in the 1800s. Members of the congregation founded the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society of Montreal (later the Baron de Hirsch Institute) in the 1850s. The synagogue has a cemetery and a school and was the recipient of the first two Torah scrolls ever sent to Canada. Some of its Torah cases are over 200 years old as well. The Shearith Israel is the oldest congregation in Canada.
- Notes
- English, Yiddish and Hebrew.Includes 5 coins from 1899-1900.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
EVELYN MILLER AND A. DE SOLA PAPERS.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn299
- Collection
- EVELYN MILLER AND A. DE SOLA PAPERS.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 8 microfilms. - Env. 0.12 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0198
- Date
- 1770S copies-1985.
- Scope and Content
- Files of Evelyn Miller papers catalogued and deaccessioned by McGill University Archives including copies of Shearith Israel early minutes, Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue documents, Canadian Jewish Historical Society documents, copies of de Sola family microfilms. A. de Sola finding aid.
- Collection
- EVELYN MILLER AND A. DE SOLA PAPERS.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 8 microfilms. - Env. 0.12 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Files of Evelyn Miller papers catalogued and deaccessioned by McGill University Archives including copies of Shearith Israel early minutes, Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue documents, Canadian Jewish Historical Society documents, copies of de Sola family microfilms. A. de Sola finding aid.
- Date
- 1770S copies-1985.
- Fonds No.
- P0198
- History / Biographical
- Evelyn Miller was a member of the CJC Archives committee and a founding member of the Canadian Jewish Historical Society. She devoted much effort to collecting information about early Montreal Jewish history and documented location of archives about it. Abraham de Sola was an important figure in Victorian Montreal, from the mid 1800s until his death. He taught at McGill in addition to being spiritual leader of the Shearith Israel and prolific author on religious Jewish subjects.
- Custodial History
- This collection was donated by McGill University Archives and the estate of Evelyn Miller on February 1st, 2005.
- Notes
- P05/03, ZB.Abraham de Sola material is valuable and much requested by researchers here. This fills out our holdings, as does the synagogue material. Cross references with McGill Collections and our synagogue holdings.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45892
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 14 metres of textual records. - 149 sound elements. - Env. 440 photographs. - 1 video. - 1 film. - 2 compact discs (DVD-ROM) (movie). - Env. 3 artefacts.
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Date
- 1791-2008.
- Scope and Content
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Archives contains the following catalogued series of documents: Architectural Plans for the Lemieux Street building (dating from 1940 and onwards), Synagogue Bulletins and other serial publications of the synagogue (1931-2008), legal documents and membership app…
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 14 metres of textual records. - 149 sound elements. - Env. 440 photographs. - 1 video. - 1 film. - 2 compact discs (DVD-ROM) (movie). - Env. 3 artefacts.
- Scope and Content
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Archives contains the following catalogued series of documents: Architectural Plans for the Lemieux Street building (dating from 1940 and onwards), Synagogue Bulletins and other serial publications of the synagogue (1931-2008), legal documents and membership application files (mostly restricted, due to their personal name information), liturgical music scores, Sisterhood papers, general Synagogue subject files (mostly pre-1995), photographs and audiovisual materials, and an inventoried cabinet housing life cycle record books (1919-1994), minute books (1832-1970), and other bound record books. The collection also includes an unprocessed series consisting of four boxes of recent minutes (for various boards and committees, on paper and on audiocassette) and three boxes of Synagogue Administration documents. These recent, unprocessed documents almost all date from post 1995. The Synagogue Archives also houses several dozen framed photographs and framed documents. Furthermore, many of the congregation's older Jewish ceremonial objects, as well as other historic artifacts and antique books, are considered by the Synagogue to be part of the Archives' collection, although they are not housed in the Archives space. Although not described in the present catalogue, the majority of these items were described in a previous catalogue prepared in 2009 by volunteers belonging to the Sisterhood.
- Date
- 1791-2008.
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- History / Biographical
- The Corporation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews is the oldest Jewish institution in Montreal, in Quebec and in Canada, tracing its history back to the first Jewish settlers who began to arrive in 1760. The few families met for prayer in private homes until the Congregation was formally established in 1768. The first Synagogue building was located in Old Montreal and was the first non-Catholic house of worship built in the city. In 1838 the Congregation moved to Chenneville Street and in 1890 to a beautiful edifice on Stanley Street. Although these building were not preserved, the Congregation has carried with it many of the principal furnishings and artifacts from the early edifices. It has been housed in its fourth premises, in the Snowdon-Cotes des Neiges area of Montreal, since 1947. The Spanish-Portuguese tradition follows the rites and customs of those Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal beginning in 1492 who sought refuge in European lands. Other Sephardi (Spanish or Iberian) Jews left for Mediterranean, mostly Moslem, lands, becoming known as the Sephardi Oriental Jews. During the past fifty years many hundreds of families from these latter communities have come to Montreal and have joined the Congregation, reconnecting with their kin from whom they had been separated 500 years ago. Until the early 1960s the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue was the only Sephardi congregation in Montreal and in Canada. The Congregation today serves over 700 families who come from almost every country in the world in which Jews have ever lived. Four parallel services must be held in order to accommodate the two thousand people who wish to pray on the High Holydays. It is a multicultural community reflecting Montreal life and Canadian pluralism. Although established mainly by English speaking Jews, it has now become a bilingual community due to the arrival of numerous French-speaking families from North Africa and the Middle East. Through its attention to the present and to the past, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue demonstrates its commitment to be not only an active Jewish congregation but also an historic monument to Canadian and Quebec and Jewish life. (Adapted from a history written by Rabbi Howard S. Joseph. The full text is online at http://www.thespanish.org/about-us/.)
- Custodial History
- In the 1970s, recognizing the historical significance of the Congregation, the Public Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada) requested that all the early documents and minute books be donated there. This was done in 1977. The Congregation presented its first Torah Scroll to the National Archives as well. The Archives collection currently housed at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue therefore consists primarily of documents dating from 1930 and later.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Images
DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn156
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.16 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0048
- Date
- 1846-1882.
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence, sermons, translation, McGill exams, addresses. Published articles on religious matters. The Sanatory Institutions of the Hebrews, Part I, 1861, part of which appeared in Canadian Medical Journal, vol. 1 #12, Montreal, 1852.
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.16 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence, sermons, translation, McGill exams, addresses. Published articles on religious matters. The Sanatory Institutions of the Hebrews, Part I, 1861, part of which appeared in Canadian Medical Journal, vol. 1 #12, Montreal, 1852.
- Date
- 1846-1882.
- Fonds No.
- P0048
- History / Biographical
- Born in 1825, Alexander Abraham de Sola was the rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Montreal from 1847 until his death; appointed lecturer in Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature at McGill University in 1848 and raised to professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages five years later; first Jew to be awarded the honourary degrees LL.D. from McGill University in 1858; author of numerous articles on Jewish history, religion, natural history, science. He died in 1882.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: MC 13.Related groups of records: Books in Archives Library, Shearith Israel records.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
SPANIER family
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn249
- Collection
- SPANIER family
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.9 metres of textual records. - 292 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- P0143
- Date
- c.1851-2022.
- Scope and Content
- Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to hi…
- Collection
- SPANIER family
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.9 metres of textual records. - 292 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- Photos and family documents pre- and post-Nazi regime. Information concerning founding of German-Jewish refugee congregation - Hartford, Connecticut. Letter signed in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt asking for funds for war orphans. Personal history of Spanier family written by Albert Spanier prior to his death in November of 1996. German-language newspaper published on May 12, 1939, in Paris listing Spanier members as non-citizens of Germany - "ausburgerrungsliste." Material on internment camps for German Jews in Canada 1941-1944 (Montreal Standard clipping), photocopies from Netherlands embassy about refused entry at port of Poole, also list of names from family prayer book. Addition 2004: 165 photos, colour and black and white, of Spanier family including Germany, including a housefront/ storefront boarded after Kristalnacht, also family in USA and Canada and Beverly Spanier teaching career and friends. Also 1 cm. Beverly career documents. Addition 2009: Macdonald College Faculty of Education McGill University Class of 1969 history booklet written by B. Spanier for the 40th Reunion. List of volunteer work of B. Spanier. Addition 2010: 80th birthday biographical tribute to Miriam Roland. Additions 2011-2022: McGill University Class of '67 Arts and Science 45th Reunion Booklet, compiled by and edited by B. Spanier. Obituary of B. Spanier's second cousin, John Winston Spanier. Newspaper clippings from 2013-2021 concerning the patient advocacy work and activities of B. Spanier, including during the COVID-19 pandemic and upon her receiving the D'Arcy-McGee National Assembly Citizenship Medal in 2021. B. Spanier autobiography 'Reflections on my Life' April 1, 2014 (91 pp. approx. 95 images; also includes digital copy). Material relating to B. Spanier's 69th and 70th birthdays. Booklets written by B. Spanier including 'Tears, Suffering and the Helping Hand' 2016 (20 pp. incl. 11 images of original art by B. Spanier) and 'A Patient's View of Covid-19 From Inside a Quebec Chronic-Care Facility' April 3, 2021, (22 pp, 8 images incl. of original art by B. Spanier). 75th birthday biographical tribute to Lloyd Brereton (2022) and 70th birthday biographical tribute to Panaiota Zaphiratos (2022).
- Date
- c.1851-2022.
- Fonds No.
- P0143
- History / Biographical
- Beverly Spanier was born in 1945 in Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated from McGill University in Honors Economics and Political Science in 1967. She was a high school teacher in Montreal, Quebec from 1969 to 1997, and was involved with religious programming at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in Westmount, Quebec. Beverly is a long-time patient-rights advocate and has been outspoken on behalf of patients in long-term and chronic care during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially at Maimonides Geriatric Centre. In 2021, she was honoured by MNA David Birnbaum for her activism and received the D'Arcy-McGee National Assembly Citizenship Medal. Family members highlighted in the collection are her brother, the late Allen Spanier, formerly a McGill professor of medicine, surgeon, researcher, and Director of Intensive Care Unit at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, and her late father Albert, formerly a businessman in textiles and a synagogue leader. Albert Spanier was born on January 4, 1914 in Enger, Germany and was one of four children born to Amalia and Adolph. Albert, Gertrude, Irwin and Werner were raised in Enger in the largest home in the town. In 1938 the family fled Nazi Germany to scatter abroad and eventually reunite in Hartford, Connecticut where they were all members of Tikvoh Chadoshah Synagogue. Albert Spanier died on November 17, 1995 while living in West Hartford Connecticut. Dr. Allen Spanier died on April 27th, 1999 in Montreal at the age of 52. Allen and Beverly's mother Sybil, the first wife of Albert, passed away in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in July 8th 2002.
- Custodial History
- Part of this collection was transferred from the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, at the request of the donor, Beverly Spanier. Several additions to the collection were made after the initial transfer in 1994.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations :P94/10 +adds. P98/03+adds. P14/05+adds. P15/17+adds. P16/08+adds.General note :Mostly originals, incl. photographs.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
Allan Raymond Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31559
- Collection
- Allan Raymond Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 16 linear metres of multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1034
- Scope and Content
- Consists of numerous series and sub-series from individuals, families, organizations and businesses from within the Jewish community of Montreal. Includes various forms of records such as correspondence, photographs, artefacts and ledgers.
- Collection
- Allan Raymond Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 16 linear metres of multiple media
- Scope and Content
- Consists of numerous series and sub-series from individuals, families, organizations and businesses from within the Jewish community of Montreal. Includes various forms of records such as correspondence, photographs, artefacts and ledgers.
- Fonds No.
- 1034
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- Allan Raymond (1922- ) was born in Lithuania and came to Montreal in 1928. He is a researcher and lecturer of Canadian Jewish history and an avid collector of Canadian Judaica. Raymond also considered himself a romantic poet. He had a successful career as an insurance broker in Montreal and during World War II served overseas with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Amongst his varied community activities he served as public relations director of the Westmount Historical Association, Montreal Jewish Historical Society, St. James Literary Society, One Parent Families Association, Parents Without Partners Association, the YMHA Chaverim Group, Avant Garde Singles Group and S-Group. Mr. Raymond conducted research for the Montreal Gazette's "Great Montreal Walks" as well as for the television documentary "Six Decades." Many of his historical documents and photographs were exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Universite de Montreal, Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom, Shaar Hashomayim Congregation and the Jewish Public Library. He has delivered a series of illustrated lectures dealing with Canadian Judaica at the former Saidye Bronfman Centre among other institutions. This collection was accumulated by Allan Raymond over a period of thirty-five years. Most of the collection held at the Jewish Public Library was donated in 1993 and again in 1999. Mr. Raymond continues in his collecting as well as donations of material to the Jewish Public Library Archives to this day.
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- French
- Hebrew
- Custodial History
- Received by the Jewish Public Library by Allan Raymond in 1993 and 1999.
- Arrangement
- Each series arranged individual to the specific family, person, institution, business or organization. Also includes materials arranged based on format such as "artefacts."
- Access Restrictions
- Some restrictions may apply due to Privacy legislation.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some restrictions may apply due to Copyright legislation.
- Finding Aid
- Original finding aid available in JPL-A.
- Subjects
- Abramowitz, Herman
- Abramowitz, Tess (nee Bokar)
- Montreal (Quebec) - Buildings, structures, etc.
- Montreal (Quebec) - Street scenes
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Brown, Andrew = 19th century journal referencing Passover in Montreal
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn113336
- Collection
- Brown, Andrew = 19th century journal referencing Passover in Montreal
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.01 textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0304
- Date
- 1854-1867.
- Scope and Content
- Bound book containing an inventory of hardware items from 1854 followed by a handwritten journal with entries from January 1866 to June 3, 1867. On January 11, March 16 and March 28, 1866 there are mentions of 'Jews' Passover bread' and a 'Passover bakehouse', which the donor considers to be the fi…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.01 textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Bound book containing an inventory of hardware items from 1854 followed by a handwritten journal with entries from January 1866 to June 3, 1867. On January 11, March 16 and March 28, 1866 there are mentions of 'Jews' Passover bread' and a 'Passover bakehouse', which the donor considers to be the first such references in Montreal writings. In penciled notes at the beginning of the volume a more recent owner of the volume has written that Andrew Brown was a clerk at Mulholland and Baker, Hardware Merchants on 327 Lagauchetiere Street / 243 St. Paul Street, in Montreal, according to Mackay's Montreal directory of 1863-1864. There are a few additional penciled highlights and clarifications or comments within the volume. The last pages of the book include some lines recording 'Deaths in our family' and a verse from the anthem 'God Save the Queen'.
- Date
- 1854-1867.
- Fonds No.
- P0304
- History / Biographical
- As indicated in the notes added to the book, Andrew Brown was a clerk at Mulholland and Baker, Hardware Merchants on 327 Lagauthetiere Street / 243 St. Paul Street, in Montreal, according to Mackay's Montreal directory of 1863-1864.
- Custodial History
- The book was donated to the Archives in November 2023 by historian Sheldon Godfrey.
- Notes
- Physical description: Fragile. Physical condition: Fair. Alpha-numeric designations: P23/21.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM - Synagogue administrative records
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78466
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM - Synagogue administrative records
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 10.65 metres of textual records. - Env. 7 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- I0106
- Date
- 1858-2015.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of the equivalent of 32 banker's boxes of textual records, although most of contents are oversize. Includes: Bound books of minutes, (1858-1990), Annual reports (1955-1990), membership and seating books (1918-1985?), cemetery books, rentals books, various committee and schoo…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 10.65 metres of textual records. - Env. 7 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of the equivalent of 32 banker's boxes of textual records, although most of contents are oversize. Includes: Bound books of minutes, (1858-1990), Annual reports (1955-1990), membership and seating books (1918-1985?), cemetery books, rentals books, various committee and school ledgers, other ledgers and financial records and synagogue Bulletins (bound and unbound.) In addition to the administrative documentation there is a wealth of nominative information about congregation members which could be of genealogical and sociological interest. There are numerous books and files of Minutes, including: Board of Trustees minutes 1955-1960; Board Minutes 1960-1995; Executive minutes, 1920, 1946-1951, 1969-1976, and 1979-2009; "ACM" 1974-1983; Woman's auxiliary youth minutes, 1952-1956; and Youth committee minutes 1952-1956.A large part of the fonds consists of Membership and Holiday Seating Plan books, dating from 1918-1980 (some of the years are written as Hebrew dates.) These books usually include names, addresses, seat numbers, their cost, and remarks. Some years contain separate sections, such as membership without seats, cemetary plot sales, school membership, and assembly hall seat membership bookings. Some books include loose papers containing information on bookings gains and losses, overcrowding, concessions granted, correspondence for seat renewals and requests. The Cemetery records include Plans (maps) of the Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery plots in 2 long black books that record spaces allotted to individuals from 1902-1989. The Cemetery books duplicate much of the same content, but vary in handwritten notes and years covered; one finishes in the 1970s, the other in the 1990s. There is also a folder of cemetery titles (1910-1972). Five wide brown books contain cemetery plans for part of Shaar Hashoymayim Cemetery, dated January 15, 1954. Four of are nearly duplicates, with minor variations. The other varies more and features "S"s in the plots.There is also a ledger without its cover recording memorial observances by family members 1930s-1969?, which includes death dates and Hebrew names. There is documentation on Hall Rentals by the Men's Association, along with their minutes, some correspondence, event programs, other miscellany. and 7 photographs (1949-1955). Other Rental records in the collection list the event type, name of booker, number of guests, costs and remarks. Documents for rentals rates and holiday restrictions are also contained in these books (1966-1977 and 1986-1990).Also: Hebrew Sunday School records, including lists of students and teachers, class attendance reports, student discipline and daily weather reports, 1946-1957; and Hebrew Young Ladies Sewing Society, minutes of meetings, 1917-1927. Synagogue bulletins are present in a near complete series from 1928-2010, with the exception of vols. XI-XII for 1937-1939.There are various financial ledgers dating from 1911-1982, among them Cashbook 1911-1918; School ledger 1938-1946; Financial ledger 1950-1955.Added in June 2013: Printed legal documents for a name change for the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue and the incorporation of the B'nai Jacob synagogue (both 1890), and the incorporation of the Temple Emanu-El (1883), old news clippings about the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue and Jewish Montreal, original letters from Moses Montefiore in London, England, payment booklet for the Shomrim Laboker congregation printed in 1905 and used between 1908-1937, 3 original prints of Rabbi Abraham de Sola's booklet Behemoth Hatevoth (1853), and various ephemeral documents pertaining to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, including an invitation to the cornerstone laying of their Stanley Street building, two order of Service handouts, and a notice of a Masonic meeting. All the documents received in this group are in very fragile condition.
- Date
- 1858-2015.
- Fonds No.
- I0106
- History / Biographical
- In 1846, members of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and other Montreal Jews decided that they wanted Ashkenazi synagogue services. They therefore formed the Corporation of English, German and Polish Jews which was modelled on a British synagogue. The congregation rented space, then constructed its first building on St. Constant Street. In 1875, the congregation almost amalgamated with the Spanish and Portuguese to form one large synagogue in the west end of the city, but this was not successful. After several other moves, and the adoption of the name Shaar Hashomayim in 1917, land was purchased in 1920 in Westmount and the new building completed in 1922. A school was added after the Second World War, and the building was expanded in 1967. Though Orthodox by charter, the congregation is Conservative. It is the second oldest synagogue in Canada, and the oldest Ashkenazi one.
- Custodial History
- The initial donation was made in 2012 by the Administrative Director of the congregation, during a time of renovations to the vault where the papers and ledgers had been stored. In June 2013 five centimetres of old documents formerly from the Shaar Hashomayim Museum were donated by the volunteer in charge of the museum and archives collection. These items were de-accessioned from the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum at the discretion of the museum personnel because they refer to other synagogues.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P12/ 14, P13/11.Associated material: Shaar Hashomayim synagogue files accumulated in the CJC collection, series ZH.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn268
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 0.3 metres of textual records. - 6 other fixed images.
- Fonds No.
- P0164
- Date
- 1860?-1922.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds consists of: 6 daguerrotypes of Abraham and Mrs. Esther (Joseph) de Sola and Meldola, Clarence as children; diaries of Clarence de Sola 1873-1875, 1879, 1880, 1904, 1919 (microfilmed at NAC in the 1970s); a scrapbook with photos, clippings, hair of Mrs. de Sola; original birth and marriag…
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 0.3 metres of textual records. - 6 other fixed images.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds consists of: 6 daguerrotypes of Abraham and Mrs. Esther (Joseph) de Sola and Meldola, Clarence as children; diaries of Clarence de Sola 1873-1875, 1879, 1880, 1904, 1919 (microfilmed at NAC in the 1970s); a scrapbook with photos, clippings, hair of Mrs. de Sola; original birth and marriage documents, memorabilia including war medals of Mrs. Maude de Sola; file of correspondence 1870-1920, including 3 envelopes addressed to Rev. A. de Sola (1870-1873), a letter from "Mummy" in Cleveland (1901), a letter from Clarence to his aunts (1901), 3 letters from Clarence to his wife, (1914 and 1920, with envelopes), and one letter to son Rafael, 1914. The three letters dated August 1914 are written from Montreal and make reference to the outbreak of WWI.
- Date
- 1860?-1922.
- Fonds No.
- P0164
- History / Biographical
- Born in Montreal on August 15, 1858, Clarence de Sola was the third son of the renowned Victorian rabbi Rev. Alexander Abraham de Sola of the Shearith Israel synagogue of Montreal. He married Belle Maud Goldsmith of Cleveland in 1901. He was a contractor and served in the consular service as well as a leader of the social and communal life of Canadian Jewry, a founder and long-time president of the Federation Societies of Canada; and the author of numerous articles on Jewish history. He died in May 1920. His father Abraham de Sola was the first Jewish professor to teach Hebrew at McGill University, was rabbi of the Shearith Israel, Montreal's oldest congregation from 1848 until his death. Meldola gained widespread recognition as the cantor at the Shearith Israel.
- Custodial History
- The documents are on permanent loan from Ms. Gillian Mosely, in May 1998 (The documents were placed on permanent loan in May, 1998). These items belonged to Lady Jessica Mellor, who had the diaries microfilmed for the National Archives of Canada. Gillian Mosely, her niece, took care of her and received these items upon her death.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P98/01.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES (FJP).
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn22
- Collection
- FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES (FJP).
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 50 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0020
- Date
- 1863-1988.
- Scope and Content
- The material is divided into 6 series, A to F.
- Collection
- FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES (FJP).
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 50 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- The material is divided into 6 series, A to F.
- Date
- 1863-1988.
- Fonds No.
- I0020
- History / Biographical
- From a Yiddish fundraising pamphlet, circa 1934. In 1863, the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society (YMHBS), later the Baron de Hirsch Institute (BHI), was formed. It helped new immigrants, ran a school, and provided relief services to the Jewish community. Other such organizations and institutions, often in need of money, were also in existence, so in 1916 a single agency was formed to oversee all fundraising for these groups: the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. It later was renamed the Federation of Jewish Community Services (1951), then Allied Jewish Community Services (AJCS, 1965). In 1992 the name was changed to Federation CJA. Included within this social and community services agency are the Jewish Public Library, the YM-YWHA, Golden Age Association, Jewish Immigrant Aid Society (JIAS), and the Jewish General Hospital
- Notes
- MB 1.See Photo collection described on database in PCAT. One oversize box of scrapbooks stored with materials. Minutes and annual reports from National Archives of Canada collection and fragile materials from Series A are available on microfilm; reels ZE 22, ZE 23, and ZE 24.Various constituent agency records. See entries for Hebrew Old Peoples' and Sheltering Home, Maimonides Hospital, Hospital of Hope, Jewish General Hospital, Mount Sinai Sanatorium, YM-YWHA, Herzl (Dispensary/Health Services Centre/Family Practice), Montreal Hebrew Orphans' Home. See Also: Women's Federation of Allied Jewish Community Services, Industrial Removal Office.Approximately 15 m. of this collection is unprocessed. There is a finding aid and computer listings for the processed materials.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
KASTNER, Solomon = Books and Robe.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn267
- Collection
- KASTNER, Solomon = Books and Robe.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 1.4 metres of textual records. - 15 sound elements. - 3 artefacts.
- Fonds No.
- P0163
- Date
- 1865-1998.
- Scope and Content
- Handwritten scores by Kastner, for synagogue liturgy, arranged for a choir - mostly undated. 12 music books and scores, printed in Vienna, Poland and USA, the earliest dating to 1865 - mostly cantorial music, also one (Polish) opera score. 1 vinyl recording of S. Kastner, reading the Haftorah (addi…
- Collection
- KASTNER, Solomon = Books and Robe.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 1.4 metres of textual records. - 15 sound elements. - 3 artefacts.
- Scope and Content
- Handwritten scores by Kastner, for synagogue liturgy, arranged for a choir - mostly undated. 12 music books and scores, printed in Vienna, Poland and USA, the earliest dating to 1865 - mostly cantorial music, also one (Polish) opera score. 1 vinyl recording of S. Kastner, reading the Haftorah (additional Bible reading of the week).Addition 1999: 14 vinyl recordings. 3 cantoral robes. 2 hats. 1 collar. Marriage register Winnipeg (1934-1937), Toronto (1947 and 1948). Various documents (Ketuba, corresp.1944-1946, copies of picture, etc...). 1 music book (1940, y).Addition 2001: One cantor's robe (black). 1 cantor's hat (black). One neckpiece (small and whote linen). Approx. 9 music books (some annotated with music) (German, English, and 3 in Yiddish). 6 musical scores (5 in English and 1 in Yiddish).
- Date
- 1865-1998.
- Fonds No.
- P0163
- History / Biographical
- Solomon Kastner was born in Europe 1886 (circa). He received rabbinical ordination in Romania. He served as cantor of the Shaarey Zedek, in Winnipeg, while his friend Solomon Frank was Rabbi. He left for Toronto in 1945 and pursued other work until, with S. Frank's help, he obtained the position of cantor at Montreal's Shearith Israel Spanish and Portuguese synagogue. He had 4 children, 3 sons and a daughter. He died in Montreal in 1957.
- Custodial History
- The collection was donated by Elizabeth Kastner, daughter of S. Kastner.
- Notes
- P98/06, P99/02, P01/14.German, English, Yiddish and Polish.There is an inventory done of all the books and music scores.The collection includes rare ceremonial clothing.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
BLAUSTEIN, Esther.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn293
- Collection
- BLAUSTEIN, Esther.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- P0192
- Date
- 1866-2003.
- Scope and Content
- 1 original 1866 photo of McGill College graduates, possibly including Louis Hart. 4 colour snapshots taken recently of the synagogue in Yarmounth, NS.
- Collection
- BLAUSTEIN, Esther.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- 1 original 1866 photo of McGill College graduates, possibly including Louis Hart. 4 colour snapshots taken recently of the synagogue in Yarmounth, NS.
- Date
- 1866-2003.
- Fonds No.
- P0192
- History / Biographical
- The Jewish Synagogue in Yarmouth is a wooden structure built for the Free Baptist Church in the cemetery at Arcadia. After a considerable period it was removed to Yarmouth and enlarged and improved, served the Free Baptists of the town until 1905, when, the United Baptist Church having been formed, it fell into disuse. In 1906, the Jewish community organized their Agudath Achim Society and in 1910, established their Synagogue in this former free Baptist Church.
- Custodial History
- The Nova Scotia photos were given to Mrs. Esther Blaustein by Doris Phillips with notes. Which she donated them to the Archives in May 2003.
- Notes
- P03/10.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
LORD READING YACHT CLUB = LRYC.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn80
- Collection
- LORD READING YACHT CLUB = LRYC.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 6 plans. - 3.6 metres of textual records. - Env. 500 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- I0078
- Date
- [1946-1999], one document 1869 (copy).
- Scope and Content
- The document portion of the fonds consists of historical essays, minutes, membership lists and ledgers, by-laws, rules of the Club, and correspondence (including founding documents such as letters patent and correspondence with representatives of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Canadian Federal gover…
- Collection
- LORD READING YACHT CLUB = LRYC.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 6 plans. - 3.6 metres of textual records. - Env. 500 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- The document portion of the fonds consists of historical essays, minutes, membership lists and ledgers, by-laws, rules of the Club, and correspondence (including founding documents such as letters patent and correspondence with representatives of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Canadian Federal government). Also included are documents related to negotiations about original site building and later renovations. Most of the documentary portion of the collection was preserved by Henry Vineberg in black 3-ring binders. The approximately 1550 print photos, negatives, and slides (ca. 300) in the fonds depict Club activities, boats and boating events, the Club buildings and grounds through time, and persons associated with the Club. The majority of the photos were originally arranged in albums and were inter-filed the paper based records but are now housed in two distinct photo-boxes. The plans in the fonds show renovations and locations of buildings. The fonds also includes a few personal items about Henry C. Vineberg, Club archivist and historian. Of particular interest is a framed replica of the ketuba (marriage contract) of his grandparents, dated 1863 and prepared in Montreal by Rabbi Abraham de Sola.
- Date
- [1946-1999], one document 1869 (copy).
- Fonds No.
- I0078
- History / Biographical
- The Lord Reading Yacht Club was founded by a group of Jewish Montrealers at a time when Jews were not welcome in boating clubs around the Island of Montreal. The club founders encountered initial opposition from the City of Beaconsfield, where it was located. Henry Vineberg, long-time member and self-appointed archivist of the club, made documenting the Club's history and activities the mission of his later years. His archival collection included documents and photographs from the earliest days of the organization. The Archives of the LRYC were housed in his Snowdon-area home in Montreal until his death, in November 1999.
- Custodial History
- The Lord Reading Yacht Club Archives were in the possession of Club archivist and historian Henry C. Vineberg until his death in November 1999. At that time they were donated, with the permission of the Club, to CJC Archives under the authority of his executor and friend, Jack Stein
- Notes
- P99/11.The fonds is not yet processed.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
ANSELL, David Abraham.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn112
- Collection
- ANSELL, David Abraham.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.1 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0004
- Date
- 1877-1940.
- 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…
- Collection
- ANSELL, David Abraham.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.1 metres of textual records.
- 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.
- Date
- 1877-1940.
- Fonds No.
- P0004
- 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.
- Notes
- English and Yiddish.Fonds consists of mostly originals.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
JACOBS, Samuel William.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn199
- Collection
- JACOBS, Samuel William.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.62 metres of textual records. - Env. 50 photographs. - Env. 5 artefacts.
- Fonds No.
- P0093
- Date
- 1880-1984.
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence 1880-1980. House of Commons pass 1929, 1936. Buckingham Palace certificate 1937. Travel permit 1917. Certificates, bank books, accounting records, contracts, entries in various year books. House of Commons Debates. Flyers, articles, reports, book chapters, reviews, lecture text, broa…
- Collection
- JACOBS, Samuel William.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.62 metres of textual records. - Env. 50 photographs. - Env. 5 artefacts.
- Scope and Content
- Correspondence 1880-1980. House of Commons pass 1929, 1936. Buckingham Palace certificate 1937. Travel permit 1917. Certificates, bank books, accounting records, contracts, entries in various year books. House of Commons Debates. Flyers, articles, reports, book chapters, reviews, lecture text, broadcasts. Protestant School Board report. Baron de Hirsch Institute minutes. Clippings (e/f/y). Son M. Jacobs' camp report and school certificate. Also contains artefacts (JIAS commemorative chalice, desk ornament, cigarette case, walking stick) and photos of S.W. Jacobs, family - home.
- Date
- 1880-1984.
- Fonds No.
- P0093
- History / Biographical
- Born in Lancaster, Ontario in 1871, S.W. Jacobs' family was one of the earliest to come to Canada from Eastern Europe, arriving in the mid-1800s. Educated at McGill and Laval Universities, he became a lawyer and an expert on Canada's legal code and its railway law. From 1917 until his death he was also Liberal member of Parliament for Cartier. He was President of the Baron de Hirsch Institute from 1912-1914, of the Canadian Jewish Congress from 1934-1938, and life governor of the Montreal General Hospital, Notre Dame Hospital, Mount Sinai Sanatorium, the Young Men's Hebrew Association and the Hebrew Free Loan Association. He was also involved with the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services and the Montreal Hebrew Orphans' Home, and was the Canadian director of the Jewish Colonization Association. Jacobs was renowned for defending Jewish interests, combating anti-Semitism, and promoting increased Jewish immigration to Canada. He was also very active in the Quebec school question. As a lawyer he was famous for such incidents as having murderer Harry K. Thaw extradited to the United States, as well as for winning the Plamondon libel case in 1913. As an MP, Jacobs was involved in removing certain discriminatory acts that were anti-Jewish and is known for his amendment respecting the status of Jews in Quebec's constitutional law. S.W. Jacobs, called "the wit of Parliament," established the Jewish Times in 1897 with his friend Lyon Cohen - the first Canadian Jewish periodical. He died in 1938.
- Custodial History
- The documents in this collection (2 boxes) were purchased at auction for CJC in 1971. The contents are documented in an inventory list produced by the Montreal Book Auctions Ltd., 1971.
- Notes
- MC 16.For this collection, S1 and S2 refers to Box numbers 1 and 2. These are no series.English, French, and Yiddish.Photos Stored in PC1-Box4, Photo-personalia file, and overside photos.A preliminary inventory of the document section of this collection at the time of its purchase by CJC in 1971 can be found in the Montreal Book Auctions Ltd. catalogue for July 8, 1971 (copy in collection, photocopy in Accessions file).
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
TEMPLE EMANU-EL.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn62
- Collection
- TEMPLE EMANU-EL.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.31 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0060
- Date
- 1882-1991.
- Scope and Content
- Charter and by-laws (1925). Reports (1919-1920). Board members (1976). Deceased members (1957, 1985). Correspondence (1944, 1946, 1958, 1967, 1980). Bulletins (1927-1989, with gaps). Dedication/anniversary books (1932-1982, with gaps). Programs (1945-1985, with gaps). Lectures (1897-1967 with gaps)…
- Collection
- TEMPLE EMANU-EL.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.31 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Charter and by-laws (1925). Reports (1919-1920). Board members (1976). Deceased members (1957, 1985). Correspondence (1944, 1946, 1958, 1967, 1980). Bulletins (1927-1989, with gaps). Dedication/anniversary books (1932-1982, with gaps). Programs (1945-1985, with gaps). Lectures (1897-1967 with gaps). Reprinted article (1963). School magazine (1935-1936, 1939, 1941). School handbook (1969). Course lists (1933, 1937, 1939). Lecture list (1920). Museum information. Report (1977). Scrapbook (1930s-1940s). Picture of proposed building (c.1957). Jewish Yearbook entries (1936, 1946, 1954, 1964). Invitations. Flyers. Bookmarks. Clippings (1882-1991, with gaps).
- Date
- 1882-1991.
- Fonds No.
- I0060
- History / Biographical
- In the 1880s, a group of Montrealers became interested in Reform Judaism, then popular in the United States. In 1882, they met to organize what would become the city's third synagogue, the Temple Emanu-El, which was incorporated in 1883. Cemetery land was also purchased. Their first services were held in the Zion Church on Beaver Hall Hill. After several moves, the congregation bought land on Sherbrooke Street, and built a synagogue in 1911. The building was expanded to include a school, and in 1957 was expanded again. Unfortunately, the sanctuary burned down several months later, but by 1959 a new one had been dedicated. Since then, the Temple Emanu-El has only enhanced the buildings it already has rather than expand further. In 1980, the synagogue merged with the Temple Beth Sholom. The Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom is one of the largest Reform synagogues in Canada and has occupied its present location for over eighty years. It is honoured as the representative synagogue on a mural of familiar Montreal institutions in some of the cars of the Montreal subway (Metro) system.
- Notes
- Half originals and half copies.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn34
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 26 metres of textual records. - Env. 370 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Date
- 1884-1978.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 26 metres of textual records. - Env. 370 photographs.
- Date
- 1884-1978.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- History / Biographical
- The Jewish Colonization Association (JCA, in Yiddish ICA) was created in 1891 by the Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries by settling them in agricultural colonies on lands purchased by the committee, particularly in North and South America. A Canadian committee of the JCA was established in November 1906 to assist in the settlement of the thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing Russia and other European countries and to oversee the development of all the JCA settlements in the country. Colonies were established prior to 1906 throughout the west and in Quebec. These colonies included: in Saskatchewan - Hirsch (1892), Qu'Appelle or Lipton (1901), Cupar, near Regina (1901), Edenbridge east of Prince Albert (1906), and Sonnenfeld, west of Estevan (1906); in Manitoba - Bender Hamlet or Narcisse, north of Winnipeg (1903); in Quebec - La Macaza (1904) and Ste-Sophie (1904), both north of Montreal; and Trochu (1906) and Rumsey (1906), halfway between Calgary and Edmonton in Alberta. After the establishment of the Canadian committee, the JCA founded several others, including: Pine Ridge (1907), not far from Winnipeg; Eyre (1910), near Alsask in Saskatchewan, and Montefiore (1911), Alberta, on the western border between Alberta and Saskatchewan near Alsask in Saskatchewan; Bird's Hill (1911), east of Winnipeg; Camper or New Hirsch (1911), 150 kilometres north of Winnipeg; and Rosetown (1911), near the town of the same name in Saskatchewan. Economic factors, notably the Great Depression, led to the dissolution of all the Western colonies by the end of World War II. Thereafter concentrating its work in the East, the Canadian JCA purchased farms or made loans to farmers in Ontario and Quebec: the Niagara Peninsula, the regions of Brantville-Woodstock, Spencerville-Kemptville, and Beamsville in Ontario, and Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Damase, Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Frelighsburg, and Clarenceville, in Quebec. The JCA Canadian Committee made no more loans after 1970 and ceased all legal existence in 1978. The JCA deposited the major part of its papers at the National Archives of the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1978, and the remainder of its documents (the "S" collection) there in 1989.
- Notes
- There is a finding aid, supplementary series aid and computer listing.Related collections: Simon Belkin, Clara Hoffer, Louis Rosenberg, Kottenberg's Hotel New Glasgow (Nathan Rosenberg memoir).
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
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