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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
Letters Sent to ICA Head Office.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn365
- 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
- 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
Letters Received from the ICA Head Office.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn366
- 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
- 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
Old Immigrant Records.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn367
- 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…
- 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
Old Colonist Records.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn368
- 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 …
- 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
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
New Colonist Numbered Personal Files.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn370
- 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
- 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
Numbered Real Estate Files.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn371
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
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…
- 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
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
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
Public Relations Records.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn376
- 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
- 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
Litigation Records.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn377
- 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.
- 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
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
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
Dated books.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38736
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.9 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0032; AA
- Date
- 1907-1973.
- Scope and Content
- 28 large volumes of letters sent by the administration of the ICA Canadian Committee to that of the ICA Head Office, situated first in Paris (1891-1940), then in New York (1941-1947), in Paris again (1947-1949), and finally in London, since 1949. These letters, arranged and numbered chronologically…
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.9 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- 28 large volumes of letters sent by the administration of the ICA Canadian Committee to that of the ICA Head Office, situated first in Paris (1891-1940), then in New York (1941-1947), in Paris again (1947-1949), and finally in London, since 1949. These letters, arranged and numbered chronologically, include many annexed items and cablegrams. The first volume is notable for 8 letters, sent in 1906-1907, to the ICA Head Office by the Baron de Hirsch Institute of Montreal, on the subject of the founding of the ICA Canadian Committee, which assumed the colonization work of this Institute. These letters are concerned with all administrative matters, except accounting and immigration which are dealt with in sub-series AB, which completes AA.
- Date
- 1907-1973.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- AA
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Subject books.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38737
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- 0.1 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0032; AB
- Date
- 1919-1939.
- Scope and Content
- This sub-series completes AA and comprises 2 books of letters (grouped by subject) sent by the ICA Canadian Committee to the ICA Head Office. The first volume covers accounting matters, from 1919 to 1939; the second, immigration from 1921 to 1933. Within each of the 2 volumes, the letters are chron…
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- 0.1 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- This sub-series completes AA and comprises 2 books of letters (grouped by subject) sent by the ICA Canadian Committee to the ICA Head Office. The first volume covers accounting matters, from 1919 to 1939; the second, immigration from 1921 to 1933. Within each of the 2 volumes, the letters are chronologically ordered. In the second volume they are numbered.
- Date
- 1919-1939.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- AB
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Dated books.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38738
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- 0.84 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0032; BA
- Date
- 1907-1968.
- Scope and Content
- 31 volumes of letters received by the ICA Canadian Committee from the ICA Executive. They concern all the administrative problems of the former, except accounting and immigration during the periods covered by sub-series BB. Until 1949, these letters are sent from Paris, written in French, and to ea…
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- 0.84 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- 31 volumes of letters received by the ICA Canadian Committee from the ICA Executive. They concern all the administrative problems of the former, except accounting and immigration during the periods covered by sub-series BB. Until 1949, these letters are sent from Paris, written in French, and to each one is added an English version, no doubt produced by the recipients. Arranged and numbered chronologically, this sub-series includes many annexed documents and cablegrams.
- Date
- 1907-1968.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- BA
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Subject books.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38739
- Collection
- JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (JCA or ICA).
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- 0.18 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- I0032; BB
- Date
- 1917-1936.
- Scope and Content
- 3 thick volumes of letters received from ICA Head Office. They complement sub-series BA as they cover subjects not included in BA, that is, accounting, from 1917 to 1936, and immigration from 1921 to 1931. Under these 2 headings, the items are grouped chronologically. They are numbered in the last …
- Description Level
- SubSeries
- Physical Description
- 0.18 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- 3 thick volumes of letters received from ICA Head Office. They complement sub-series BA as they cover subjects not included in BA, that is, accounting, from 1917 to 1936, and immigration from 1921 to 1931. Under these 2 headings, the items are grouped chronologically. They are numbered in the last 2 volumes.
- Date
- 1917-1936.
- Fonds No.
- I0032
- Series No.
- BB
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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