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NATHANSON Family = Shmuel Leib, Mr. and Mrs. Henry, Sydney.
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- Collection
- NATHANSON Family = Shmuel Leib, Mr. and Mrs. Henry, Sydney.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs). - Env. 0.03 metres of textual records. - 15 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- P0207
- Date
- 1889-1960.
- Scope and Content
- 174 photos (JPEGs) on CD, taken by Montrealer Henry Nathanson in Prevost, Quebec, 1930; Palestine; Egypt; London; and France, 1913; and Romania 1930-1931 incl. Piatra Neami. Family history by Merle Kastner and Irwin Miller for Garbanski family incl. Montreal.Addition: 13 digital copy photos (JPEGs …
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs). - Env. 0.03 metres of textual records. - 15 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- 174 photos (JPEGs) on CD, taken by Montrealer Henry Nathanson in Prevost, Quebec, 1930; Palestine; Egypt; London; and France, 1913; and Romania 1930-1931 incl. Piatra Neami. Family history by Merle Kastner and Irwin Miller for Garbanski family incl. Montreal.Addition: 13 digital copy photos (JPEGs and duplicate large TIFFs) of S. L. Nathanson store on Boulevard St-Laurent at St-Cuthbert, Montreal. Some background information as well. (Photos on CD in in Kastner box, copied onto archival CD in photo CD masters box.)Addition 2012: 5 laminated decorative certificates recognizing tree plantings in Israel, 1940-1949: Lord Tweedsmuir National Forest Israel Tree Fund; Canadian Jewish Servicemen's Memorial, Jewish National Fund; Hadassim Youth Aliyah Nahalal; Golden Book JNF. (One is damaged.) The certificates are made out to Mrs. Henry Nathanson, aside from the first one, made out to Mr. and Mrs. 15 photographs, among them 4 old family pictures (family group in Romania c1896, family group in Canada 1906, Henry and Minnie wedding photo, portrait photo of S.L. Nathanson: The 2 early family groups are reproduction prints.) 2 pictures and one copy print of the S.L. Nathanson distillery business. 1 photo of the Herman Abramowitz chapter of Hadassah meeting at Mrs. Nathanson's home, 1950s. 7 large prints of pictures taken by Henry, during travel in Europe and Palestine with his parents in 1913. Romanian birth certificate of Sydney from 1889 and Canadian passport showing travel stamps including Palestine 1930. Documents from S.L. Nathanson distillery business including price lists c. 1913, and documents about Seagram's Corporation in Windsor, 1920s. Laminated document attesting to S. L.'s activities with B'nai Brith in Rumania before coming to Canada in 1906. Dedication book of the Windsor, Ontario Shaar Hashomayim synagogue, and information about the Nathanson stained glass windows. Small ephemera and laminated correspondence showing Henry and MInnie's Zionist involvements (postcard from Israel 1951, JNF receipt, 1960 letter to Henry from Clara Balinsky of the Mount Carmel chapter of Hadassah re: the death of Minnie Nathanson, etc.)
- Date
- 1889-1960.
- Fonds No.
- P0207
- History / Biographical
- S.L.(Shmuel Leib) Nathanson, the maternal great grandfather of donor Merle Kastner, was born in 1863 in Piatra Neamt, in the Moldavia province of Romania. He came to Canada with his wife Basie and five children in June, 1901, stopping briefly in Sydney, Nova Scotia, where S.L. left his family and travelled to Montreal, to set up his grocery business. With the help of Percy Dow of Dow Breweries and Lionel Eker of Ekers Brewery, he obtained a liquor licence for the "American Grain Distillers", later changed to "Sampson Distillers, Inc.", which provided him with the most lucrative part of his business. After the rest of his family joined him in Montreal, in 1901 he quickly established himself as an important and contributing member of the Montreal Jewish community. The grocery business S.L. Nathanson & Son, located on St. Cuthbert Street at St. Lawrence Boulevard, was registered in Montreal in 1908. Subsequently the "Distillers Distributing Co." was registered on Nov. 6, 1914, signed by SL Nathanson, and his sons Maurice and Henry Nathanson. S.L's younger son Sydney officially joined S.L. Nathanson and Sons in 1919, shortly before the partnership was dissolved in 1920. Soon after, Sydney Nathanson went on to work for the Bronfmans at Seagram's in Windsor, Ontario. Henry Nathanson and his wife Minnie, the maternal grandparents of the donor, were active members in the Montreal Jewish community and were especially supportive of Zionist causes - Hadassah, Hebrew Free Loan, among others. Source: Merle Kastner, My Nathanson and Mendelssohn family, 2009.
- Custodial History
- The collection was donated by Merle Kastner on Feb. 21 and March 10, 2006. Additions were made on March 16, 19, and 22, 2012
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P06/01, P06/01add, and P12/10.Associated material: See also P0210 - Merle Kastner Collection.General note: Photos of Boulevard St-Laurent, "The Main" are very rare for theis era. The photos may be reproduced for exhibitions, films, books etc. with credit to the donor.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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