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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
Alphabetical Subject Files.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn375
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 2.15 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0032; L
- Date
- 1884-1978.
- Scope and Content
- 130 alphabetical subject files; 90 opened before 1949, the rest afterwards. They concern above all the management, by ICA Canada, of its lands and colonies in Western Canada, Quebec, and Ontario. The files also cover the colonies' credit unions; the condition of working-class Jews of Montreal in 19…
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 2.15 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- 130 alphabetical subject files; 90 opened before 1949, the rest afterwards. They concern above all the management, by ICA Canada, of its lands and colonies in Western Canada, Quebec, and Ontario. The files also cover the colonies' credit unions; the condition of working-class Jews of Montreal in 1907; anti-Semitism in Quebec in the 1930s; the World's Grain Exhibition and Conference, held in Regina, Sask. in 1933, in which the ICA participated; the immigration in 1949-1950 of Jews from the European Displaced Persons camps; and relations between ICA Canada and its Argentinian and Polish counterparts, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Canada, the Polish Consulate-General in Montreal, the First Canadian Hungarian Farmers' Cooperative, the Rural Credit Societies of Canada, the Quebec Minister of Health and Welfare, the Jewish Vocational Service of Toronto, the Jewish Community Council of Windsor, Ont., the Premier Trust Company of St. Catharines, Ont., the Jordan Wine Company of Jordan, Ont., the Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada, the United Grain Growers' Company of Winnipeg, the Jewish Agricultural Society of New York, the American Friends of the Alliance IsraJlite Universelle of Paris, the National Farm School of Doylestown, Pa., EZRA (Belgian philanthropic society for the protection of emigrants), IKARGANAN (Society of Polish farmers and gardeners), Agricultural School of Slobodka Lesna in Poland, Palestine/Israel. The sub-series additionally comprises personnel files on 14 administrators and 7 colonists of ICA Canada, as well as files on the history of the latter and of Wapella, a Jewish colony opened in Saskatchewan in 1888 by the Russo-Jewish Committee of London
- Date
- 1884-1978.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- L
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
RUSSO-JEWISH LANDS. 1884-1915 Part I
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn41982
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; L; MA 1-L-115
- Date
- 1884-1915
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1884-1915
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- L
- File No.
- MA 1-L-115
- Notes
- These lands were owned and administered by the Russo-Jewish Committee of London, England, successors to the Mansion House Committee, Trustees of the funds for the victims of Russian persecution, who settled in the province of Saskatchewan. Those tenants who had outstanding debts to the above Committee were unable to obtain a clear title from the Dominion Ministry of Lands while this liability existed. The Russo-Jewish Committee negotiated, through their agents, with former homesteaders of their heirs to repay old debts or to relase their claims to the lands, thereby permitting land to revert to Committee. Those who did repay debts received a release from the Committee. Homesteaders; tax arrears; land transfer; land sales; land examination for railway company; draft of report by ICA representative; report on Mossomin lands; colonist loans; crops; St. Mary's Prairie Lands; ICA and colonization companies; legal restrictions on homesteads; purchase of land by railway for right of way, increasing land value; Committee's desire to sell land as entire block; mortgage transfer; discounting of mortgage; expenditures and receipts on Russo-Jewish lands; land sales to settlers; transfer of Committee lands to ICA; lands held by the various Jewish associations and names in which they were registered.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
RUSSO-JEWISH LANDS. 1884-1915 Part II
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn41983
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; L; MA 1-L-116
- Date
- 1884-1915
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1884-1915
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- L
- File No.
- MA 1-L-116
- Notes
- Land sales; municipal tax arrears; assistance requested by Russo-Jewish Committee from ICA agent; Moosomin lands; plowing on colonist farm; loan to colonist; land sale from colonization company to ICA; land purchase by financial agents; sales to colonization company requiring placement of bona fide settler on land as condition to title on land; taxes; list of ICA lands in particular municipality; lands of Russo-Jewish Committee transferred to ICA and occupants or owners of same.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
BERMAN, Aaaron, New Glasgow, Quebec. Farm credit.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn41048
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; DA; MA 1-DA-173
- Date
- 1888-1923
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1888-1923
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- DA
- File No.
- MA 1-DA-173
- Notes
- Joint document part: Securities. 1888-1923
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Legal Documents.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn379
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 0.4 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0032; P
- Date
- 1891-1978.
- Scope and Content
- Contains charter and by-laws, land transfer and sale documents, and mortgage-discharges of the ICA Canadian Committee. Also includes lists of homesteaders, land holdings, certificates of title, etc.
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 0.4 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Contains charter and by-laws, land transfer and sale documents, and mortgage-discharges of the ICA Canadian Committee. Also includes lists of homesteaders, land holdings, certificates of title, etc.
- Date
- 1891-1978.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- P
- Notes
- Approximately 370 photos. There are also four maps, ten lithographs, and one lithographic plate.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Report on Jewish Colonization Association work in Argentina, for years 1891-1941.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn42030
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; OB; MA 1-OB-4
- Date
- 1891-1941
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1891-1941
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- OB
- File No.
- MA 1-OB-4
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Memorandum and articles of Assocaition of the Jewish Colonization Association (ICA) (Aug. 24, 1891)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn42341
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; S-PA; MA 1-S-PA-1
- Date
- 1891
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1891
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- S-PA
- File No.
- MA 1-S-PA-1
- Notes
- Certificate of the incorporation of the ICA: Sept. 10, 1891, London
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Memorandum and articles of Association of the ICA, London as company limted by shares. (Stencil copy) October 6, 1896
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn42346
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; S-PA; MA 1-S-PA-6
- Date
- 1896
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1896
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- S-PA
- File No.
- MA 1-S-PA-6
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
FISHTROM, Louis, Hirsch, Saskatchewan. Farm credit.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn40867
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; DA; MA 1-DA-3
- Date
- 1898-1955
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1898-1955
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- DA
- File No.
- MA 1-DA-3
- Notes
- Security document part. 1898-1955. Transaction part missing.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Old colonist ledger. Numbered personal loan accounts. JAIAS (New York) and ICA Canada Western Office book. Nos. 1-487: 1900-1914.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn41458
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; JA; MA 1-JA-12
- Date
- 1900-1914
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1900-1914
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- JA
- File No.
- MA 1-JA-12
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Old Numbered Subject Files.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn369
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 0.85 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0032; E
- Date
- 1901-1959.
- Scope and Content
- 75 subject files, numbered in alphabetical order by subject. Opened before 1949, these files cover the management of the ICA Canadian Committee, especially its relations with other organizations such as its Brazilian and Argentinian counterparts, the American Jewish Congress, the Baltic and Holland…
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 0.85 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- 75 subject files, numbered in alphabetical order by subject. Opened before 1949, these files cover the management of the ICA Canadian Committee, especially its relations with other organizations such as its Brazilian and Argentinian counterparts, the American Jewish Congress, the Baltic and Holland American Liens, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Montreal, the Harbin Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau, the ICA Petrograd Committee, the Odessa Relief of Chicago, the United Jewish Farmers of Ontario, and the school of agriculture in Slobodka Lesna, Poland. This series includes 9 personal files on former administrators of the Canadian Committee
- Date
- 1901-1959.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- E
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Administrative and Control Records.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn374
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- Series
- Fonds No.
- I0032; K
- Date
- 1901-1978.
- Scope and Content
- Contains minute books, reports on progress, land, people and agricultural situation of colonies, and reports on Canadian and worldwide ICA activities. Also includes nominal index of Canadian colonists, inspection notes, memos, statistics, correspondence, etc. S-KK includes personal data files on th…
- Description Level
- Series
- Scope and Content
- Contains minute books, reports on progress, land, people and agricultural situation of colonies, and reports on Canadian and worldwide ICA activities. Also includes nominal index of Canadian colonists, inspection notes, memos, statistics, correspondence, etc. S-KK includes personal data files on the Canadian staff, for internal use only
- Date
- 1901-1978.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- K
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documentation.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn378
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 0.38 metres of textual records. - Photographs. - 11 other fixed images. - 4 maps.
- Fonds No.
- I0032; O
- Date
- 1901-1960.
- Scope and Content
- Includes a report on farmers, a memo on law, reports, two books on migration, and brochures and articles on agricultural policies and techniques. Photographs (1909-1961) depicting people, buildings, animals, community and farm life of all the colonies.
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 0.38 metres of textual records. - Photographs. - 11 other fixed images. - 4 maps.
- Scope and Content
- Includes a report on farmers, a memo on law, reports, two books on migration, and brochures and articles on agricultural policies and techniques. Photographs (1909-1961) depicting people, buildings, animals, community and farm life of all the colonies.
- Date
- 1901-1960.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- O
- Notes
- Simon Belkin collection.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Yearly individual colonist situation surveys.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38751
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- 0.9 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0032; KC
- Date
- 1901-1951.
- Scope and Content
- 172 brochures, each containing information for a given year on the demographic and agricultural situations of the families of one or more ICA Canada colonies. Very incomplete, this sub-series concerns the families of Alsask, Sask. (1911, 1915-1917). Bateman, Sask. (1916). Bender Hamlet, Man., (1907…
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- 0.9 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- 172 brochures, each containing information for a given year on the demographic and agricultural situations of the families of one or more ICA Canada colonies. Very incomplete, this sub-series concerns the families of Alsask, Sask. (1911, 1915-1917). Bateman, Sask. (1916). Bender Hamlet, Man., (1907-1908, 1910-1917). Bird's Hill, Man. (1914-1916). Camper, Man. (1912, 1915-1916). Court, Sask. (1916). Cupar, Sask. (1910-1917). Edenbridge, Sask. (1901-1917, 1928-1930, 1932-1939, 1941). Eyre, Sask. (1932-1939). Fort Qu'Appelle, Sask. (1903, 1908-1909). Hirsch, Sask. (1907-1917, 1928-1939, 1941, 1951). Lipton, Sask. (1903, 1907, 1910-1941). Lorette, Man. (1918). Maxwellton, Sask. (1916). Montefiore, Sask. (1914-1917, 1932-1939). New Herman, Sask. (1909, 1911-1912, 1914). New Hirsch, Man. (1911, 1913-1914, 1916). Ontario (1912-1913). Oxbow, Sask. (1908, 1910-1914). Pine Ridge, Man. (1912-1917). Quebec (1909, 1911-1913, 1916, 1939). Rosetown, Sask. (1913-1917). Rumsey, Alta. (1910, 1915-1917, 1928-1939, 1941). Ste-Anne, Man. (1914-1915). St. Boswells, Sask. (1916). Ste-Sophie, Que. (1913, 1917). St-Vincent-de-Paul, Que. (1913). Sonnenfeld, Sask. (1910, 1913, 1915-1917, 1928, 1931-1939, 1941, 1951). Trochu Valley, Alta. (1907, 1910-1914). Wapella, Sask. (1916).
- Date
- 1901-1951.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- KC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
Imprints.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38761
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- 0.14 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0032; OB
- Date
- 1901-1950.
- Scope and Content
- Several annual reports from JAIAS of New York (1901-1950); 3 reports from Jewish benevolent societies on their activities (1924, 1925?, 1945); a report from ICA Argentina on its work between 1891 and 1941; 2 books on European and Canadian migration (1924-, n.d.); some fifty brochures and articles o…
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- 0.14 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Several annual reports from JAIAS of New York (1901-1950); 3 reports from Jewish benevolent societies on their activities (1924, 1925?, 1945); a report from ICA Argentina on its work between 1891 and 1941; 2 books on European and Canadian migration (1924-, n.d.); some fifty brochures and articles on Quebec, Canadian and British agricultural policies and techniques (1933-1947)
- Date
- 1901-1950.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- OB
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
BRUDY, Alexander, Lipton, Saskatchewan. Farm credit. 1901-1922
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn40945
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; DA; MA 1-DA-78
- Date
- 1901-1922
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1901-1922
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- DA
- File No.
- MA 1-DA-78
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
HOMESTEAD ENTRIES, Canada. Part I: 1901-1904
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn41273
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; E; MA 1-E-37
- Date
- 1901-1904
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1901-1904
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- E
- File No.
- MA 1-E-37
- Notes
- Fees paid to Canadian Federal State by ICA colonists.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Annual reports of Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society, and Jewish Agricultural Society, New York.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn42027
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; OB; MA 1-OB-1
- Date
- 1901, 1907, 1911-1915, 1921-1923
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1901, 1907, 1911-1915, 1921-1923
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- OB
- File No.
- MA 1-OB-1
- Notes
- 1901, 1907, 1911-1915, 1921-1923
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
FELDMAN, Zelic, Hirsch, Saskatchewan. Farm credit.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn40920
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- I0032; DA; MA 1-DA-53
- Date
- 1902-1912
- Collection
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA)
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1902-1912
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- DA
- File No.
- MA 1-DA-53
- Notes
- Part I: JAIAS (New York) folder. 1902-1912
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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