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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

Agreement, Jewish Community Council and Haim Kruger

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Collection: Chaim Kruger Family Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file of textual material

Fonds No.: 1435; 00003

Date: 1933

Collection: Chaim Kruger Family Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file of textual material

Date: 1933

Fonds No.: 1435

File No.: 00003

Storage Location: Ctn. 001; 9-4E

Language: English

Accession No.: 14-037

Subjects: Kruger, Chaim, 1875-1933; Jewish Community Council of Montreal (Montreal, Quebec)

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Agreement, United Shochtim of Montreal and H. Kruger

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Collection: Chaim Kruger Family Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file of textual material

Fonds No.: 1435; 00002

Date: 1920

Collection: Chaim Kruger Family Collection

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 1 file of textual material

Date: 1920

Fonds No.: 1435

File No.: 00002

Storage Location: Ctn. 001; 9-4E

Language: English

Accession No.: 14-037

Subjects: Kruger, Chaim, 1875-1933; United Shochtim of Montreal

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Chaim Kruger Family Collection

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Collection: Chaim Kruger Family Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 0.8 linear metres

Fonds No.: 1435

Date: ca. 1890-1945

Scope and Content: Consists of educational certificates and numerous portraits of Kruger family members from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.

Collection: Chaim Kruger Family Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Physical Description: 0.8 linear metres

Scope and Content: Consists of educational certificates and numerous portraits of Kruger family members from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.

Date: ca. 1890-1945

Fonds No.: 1435

Storage Location: 9-4E

History / Biographical: Chaim Kruger (1875-1933), was a Talmudic scholar and contributor to the Keneder Adler newspaper. Various members of the Kruger family were involved in music in Montreal in the first half of the century as well as being high school and university educated.