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Letters Sent to ICA Head Office.

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Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Fonds No.
I0032; A
Date
1907-1978.
Scope and Content
Correspondence from ICA Canadian Committee, about administrative and accounting matters, and immigration
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Scope and Content
Correspondence from ICA Canadian Committee, about administrative and accounting matters, and immigration
Date
1907-1978.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
A
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Letters Received from the ICA Head Office.

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Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Fonds No.
I0032; B
Date
1907-1968.
Scope and Content
Correspondence received by the ICA Canadian Committee, on administrative problems, accounting and immigration
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Scope and Content
Correspondence received by the ICA Canadian Committee, on administrative problems, accounting and immigration
Date
1907-1968.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
B
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Old Immigrant Records.

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Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Fonds No.
I0032; C
Date
1904-1959.
Scope and Content
Series of files opened before 1949. Includes 1) personal files on individual transportation assistance to mainly Rumanian immigrants, 2) numbered subject files on immigration problems (usually detention and deportation), with nominal lists and material on the joint activities of ICA Canada, Canadia…
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Scope and Content
Series of files opened before 1949. Includes 1) personal files on individual transportation assistance to mainly Rumanian immigrants, 2) numbered subject files on immigration problems (usually detention and deportation), with nominal lists and material on the joint activities of ICA Canada, Canadian Jewish Congress, Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and HICEM (acronym of HIAS, ICA, and Emigdirect, the last a migration organization based in Berlin, and 3) prepaid arrival lists of refugees, including age, trade, and addresses
Date
1904-1959.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
C
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Old Colonist Records.

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Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Fonds No.
I0032; D
Date
1904-1963.
Scope and Content
Series of files created before 1949. Contains 1) numbered personal and group files on farm and collective loans, 2) subject file-books on problems, such as organizing community institutions and health and welfare, and 3) numbered community building files on financial aid granted to a synagogue and …
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Scope and Content
Series of files created before 1949. Contains 1) numbered personal and group files on farm and collective loans, 2) subject file-books on problems, such as organizing community institutions and health and welfare, and 3) numbered community building files on financial aid granted to a synagogue and various schools.
Date
1904-1963.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
D
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Old Numbered Subject Files.

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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…
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
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
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New Colonist Numbered Personal Files.

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Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Physical Description
1.8 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0032; F
Date
1949-1978.
Scope and Content
280 files on individual farm credit, opened between 1949 and 1974. Most include curricula vitae, and have 2 parts: a transaction and a mortgage
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Physical Description
1.8 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
280 files on individual farm credit, opened between 1949 and 1974. Most include curricula vitae, and have 2 parts: a transaction and a mortgage
Date
1949-1978.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
F
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Numbered Real Estate Files.

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Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Physical Description
1.47 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0032; G
Date
1912-1978.
Scope and Content
100 files concerning the maintenance, improvement, taxes, insurance, rental, and sale of some 250 lots which the ICA Canadian Committee acquired during its existence, mostly in reimbursements of unpaid farm loans
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Physical Description
1.47 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
100 files concerning the maintenance, improvement, taxes, insurance, rental, and sale of some 250 lots which the ICA Canadian Committee acquired during its existence, mostly in reimbursements of unpaid farm loans
Date
1912-1978.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
G
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Loan Cassa Files.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn372
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Physical Description
0.26 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0032; H
Date
1957-1978.
Scope and Content
12 files on the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Montreal and Toronto, and the Canadian Jewish Loan Cassa of Toronto. The ICA Canadian Committee was the co-founder of these three credit unions, and the co-director of the last named
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Physical Description
0.26 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
12 files on the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Montreal and Toronto, and the Canadian Jewish Loan Cassa of Toronto. The ICA Canadian Committee was the co-founder of these three credit unions, and the co-director of the last named
Date
1957-1978.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
H
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Financial Records.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn373
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Fonds No.
I0032; J
Date
1903-1978.
Scope and Content
Contains journals, cash books, ledgers, accounts of loans and real estate holdings, financial statements, and annual budgetary change notes. Also bank books, promissory notes, invoices, cheques and bill stubs, and receipt duplicates. Series-JD contains file of insurance records for the Western colo…
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Scope and Content
Contains journals, cash books, ledgers, accounts of loans and real estate holdings, financial statements, and annual budgetary change notes. Also bank books, promissory notes, invoices, cheques and bill stubs, and receipt duplicates. Series-JD contains file of insurance records for the Western colonies
Date
1903-1978.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
J
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Administrative and Control Records.

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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…
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
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
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Alphabetical Subject Files.

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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…
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
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
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Public Relations Records.

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Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Physical Description
0.09 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0032; M
Date
1917-1966.
Scope and Content
A few ICA Canada publicity imprints and 2 files, one on the diffusion, by this organization, of audio-visual information about itself; the other on the celebration, in 1931, of the Baron de Hirsch centenary and ICA 40th anniversary
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Physical Description
0.09 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
A few ICA Canada publicity imprints and 2 files, one on the diffusion, by this organization, of audio-visual information about itself; the other on the celebration, in 1931, of the Baron de Hirsch centenary and ICA 40th anniversary
Date
1917-1966.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
M
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Litigation Records.

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Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Fonds No.
I0032; N
Date
1915-1919, 1930-1953.
Scope and Content
Case files and judicial transcripts on cases involving ICA Canada.
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Scope and Content
Case files and judicial transcripts on cases involving ICA Canada.
Date
1915-1919, 1930-1953.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
N
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Documentation.

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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.
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.
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
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Legal Documents.

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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.
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
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
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Supplementary records series.

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Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Fonds No.
I0032; S
Date
1907-1978.
Scope and Content
These records were catalogued according to the same series divisions as the earlier records in the JCA collection. However, there is no sub-series CA, D or E in the Supplementary records series.
Collection
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
Description Level
Series
Scope and Content
These records were catalogued according to the same series divisions as the earlier records in the JCA collection. However, there is no sub-series CA, D or E in the Supplementary records series.
Date
1907-1978.
Fonds No.
I0032
Series No.
S
Custodial History
The materials in this series were donated on Oct. 4, 1991 by former JCA Canada director Mark Lister. Their donation marked the cessation of all Jewish Colonization Association activities in Canada.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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