setName:"Charles Levine family fonds" found 1 record - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Scope and Content: Year Book of Young Judea - 1931. Invoice, framed, Ottawa Beach Motor Company - 1928; Invoice, framed, Ottawa Maternity Hospital and baby Levine's identification tag - 1913; Script, stage play entitled Room Service - date unknown; File - Military Documents (Russian), Charles Gedaliah Perez Levine, …

Scope and Content: Year Book of Young Judea - 1931. Invoice, framed, Ottawa Beach Motor Company - 1928; Invoice, framed, Ottawa Maternity Hospital and baby Levine's identification tag - 1913; Script, stage play entitled Room Service - date unknown; File - Military Documents (Russian), Charles Gedaliah Perez Levine, includes: Passport with permit to leave Warsaw - 1913; Documents outlining discharge from army - 1910; Military service certificate - 1912 File - Charles Levine, Certificate of Naturalisation - 1920; File - Birth Certificates, Abe Levine and Peretz (Percy) Levine - 1913, 1925; File - Hadassah Organization Jewish National Fund Certificate, honouring Charles and Helena Levine’s 25th wedding anniversary - 1938; File - Publication entitled "Lux Glebana" Glebe Collegiate Institute - 1929; contains image of Abe Levine in the Glebe Collegiate Orchestra on page 35. File - Theater programmes and playbills, Ottawa Jewish Theater Guild - 1937- 1938; File - Souvenir Booklet, ninth national convention of Canadian Young Judea - September 1933; File - Photograph, scene from the play "Kibitzer" by photographer Yousuf Karsh - 1937; File - Columnar pad of paper with "Ideal Stationery Office Supply" printed on the cover - no date;

History / Biographical: Charles Levine (d. 1959, Ottawa) and his wife Helena (d. 1971 Ottawa) arrived in Ottawa in 1913 from Russia where Charles had served three years in the army. Shortly after their arrival, Helena gave birth to her oldest son Abraham (Abe) in the Ottawa Maternity Hospital. A second son, Peretz (Percy), was born in 1925. Charles apprenticed with Gerald Preston, a tailor on Rideau Street. Subsequently he opened his shop “Up Town” at 267 Rochester Street and the family lived upstairs. Charles Levine was an exceptional tailor, possessing the skill for making patterns and suits from patterns. Interested in current events, he always read both a Jewish newspaper and an Ottawa newspaper. He was a family man and assisted to Leon Gluzman's immigration. Helena Levine was a housewife and a supporter and member of Hadassah's Lillian Freiman Chapter, and the family attended services at B’nai Jacob synagogue. Abe Levine (1913-1994), was educated in Ottawa and attended Glebe Collegiate. In his youth, he was very involved in Jewish theatrical productions (see 1-951-01). He operated a business called Ideal Stationery on Rideau Street and married Tilly Greenberg. They had two sons, Harvey and Ron.

Related Material: Related photographs 1-091, 1-092, 4-004, 4-005, 7-028, 7-058