topic:"Tailors" found 3 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Scope and Content: Series 1 and series 2 include textual records arranged chronologically. Series 3 consists of group photographs related to Wilfred Gallay’s professional life and a group of family snapshots dating mostly from the 1920s. Series 4 consists of religious objects, and kitchen and tailoring artefact…

Collection: Helfield/Gallay Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 0.33m textual records ; 200 photographs ; 60 artefacts

Scope and Content: Series 1 and series 2 include textual records arranged chronologically. Series 3 consists of group photographs related to Wilfred Gallay’s professional life and a group of family snapshots dating mostly from the 1920s. Series 4 consists of religious objects, and kitchen and tailoring artefacts documenting the spiritual, domestic and professional life of members of the Helfield and Gallay families over more than a century.

Date: ca189[?]-ca198[?]

Storage Location: Bay 3

History / Biographical: Tylia Helfield Tylia Helfield was born in Montreal in 1934. She received her (BFA) from Concordia University in. She is a writer, printmaker and artist. Eric Sidney Helfield Eric Sidney Helfield was born in Montreal in 1931. (where he lived and went to school) He was awarded a Bachelor’s degree in 1952 and a (BCL, 1955) from McGill University. He was a barrister and served for 14 years, between 1976 and 1990, as councilor of the former City of Côte-Saint-Luc. Eric Helfield died 3 October 1992 in Montreal. Marks Ellis Marks Ellis was born in Lithuania in 1873. A tailor by trade, he immigrated via London to Montreal in 1895, accompanied by his wife Mary. He established Bellingham Cleaners in the 1930s, at the corner of Bellingham and Maplewood streets (now rue Vincent-d’Indy and boulevard Edouard-Montpetit) and operated the business for two years. He worked as a tailor during the Second World War for Sterling Clothing on Park Avenue, and at Scott’s Clothing. In 1927, Ellis was involved in the founding of the United Commercial Loan Syndicate, formed by Jewish businessmen who gave loans at low interest rates to Jewish immigrants. He was also one of the founders of the Congregation Shaare Zedek in Montreal. He retired in 1956 at the age of 82 and died in Montreal on 26 December 1965. Ellis was the maternal grandfather of Eric Helfield. Children: Barnett, Mildred, Samuel. Brother of Bluma Ellis. Wilfred Gallay (Dr) Wilfred Gallay was born 10 June 1906 in Hawkesbury, Ontario. He went to elementary school and later obtained a First Class Teacher’s Certificate in Calgary, Alberta. Gallay studied chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1930. He carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Leipzig and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Germany. On his return to Canada, he worked at the National Research Council in Ottawa, becoming head of the Section on Colloids and Plastics. From 1944 to 1953, he was a consultant to Canadian and American firms and from 1953 until his retirement in 1971, he was Director of Research and Member of the Board of Directors of the E. B. Eddy Company in Hull, Quebec. In the course of his career, Gallay published some 85 scientific papers chiefly in the field of colloid or surface chemistry and was the recipient of several fellowships, awards and honours, including the Bolton Award the Technical Section Medal from the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, and the Plummer Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Gallay was also involved with several scientific organizations and served namely on various committees of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association and as Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. He was a prominent member of the Jewish community in Ottawa. Wilfred Gallay married Birdie Silver in 19xx, and was the father of Tylia Helfied. He died in Toronto.

Language: English, Yiddish, Hebrew

Custodial History: Donated by Tilya Helfield

Notes: Further accurals expected.

Subjects: Helfield family; Helfield, Tilya; Gallay family; Furriers; Fur trade; Tailors

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Jewish Labour Committee Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn68993

Collection: Jewish Labour Committee Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.9 m of textual records

Fonds No.: 1023

Scope and Content: This fond consists mainly of working documents such as correspondence and financial papers, predominantly from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The documents deals with the advocacy activities of the JLC such as bringing refugees over to Montreal and later raising money to aid Pakistani refugees. Hig…

Collection: Jewish Labour Committee Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.9 m of textual records

Scope and Content: This fond consists mainly of working documents such as correspondence and financial papers, predominantly from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The documents deals with the advocacy activities of the JLC such as bringing refugees over to Montreal and later raising money to aid Pakistani refugees. Highlights of the fonds include correspondence between David Lewis, then secretary of the CCF, his father Moishe Lewis, and Kalman Kaplansky, both labour leaders in Montreal’s Workmen’s Circle and JLC.

Fonds No.: 1023

Storage Location: JPL

History / Biographical: In 1934, leaders in the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the Workmen’s Circle, the Jewish Daily Forward Association, the Jewish Socialist Verband and others gathered in New York’s lower east side to form the Jewish Labor Committee. The formation of the JLC was in response to the ever-growing threat of fascism in Europe. The group publicly campaigned to raise awareness of the plight of European Jewry, raised funds for partisan fighters, brought over thousands of political and cultural leaders – both Jews and non-Jews, and immediately after the war assisted in relief efforts and provided support in bringing over refugees. Jewish Labour Committees both in the United States and Canada extended their wartime work in the 1950s by campaigning against discrimination among workers as well as human rights activism on a global scale. In Montreal, the Jewish Labour Committee actively participated in pressuring the government to adopt human rights legislation at the provincial level. In 1947, the Canadian government selected two members of the JLC, Bernard Shane and Maurice Silcoff, to travel to Europe to select skilled immigrants as refugees. Both men were temporarily named colonels of the Canadian army so that they could travel more easily across war ravaged Europe. The task of bringing over skilled garment workers to Canada was no mean feat but the efforts had far reaching implications since workers were then able to bring over family members. The Jewish Labor Committee of Canada Bulletin for 1975, on reporting the death of Bernard Shane, placed the number of families brought to Canada through the work of the JLC at over 2,000.

Language: English; Yiddish; French

Access Restrictions: Some material restricted due to privacy.

Related Material: Workmen's Circle Fonds; CCF Fonds (Small Collections); Lea Roback Fonds

Accession No.: 00-078

Subjects: Labour; Labour and labouring classes; Labour leaders; Labour movement; Displaced persons; Refugee camps.; Tailors; Jewish Labour Committee (Montreal, Quebec)

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Minski/Boltz Family

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn18198

Collection: Minski/Boltz Family Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 3 files of textual material

Fonds No.: 1248

Date: ca195[?]-1956

Scope and Content: Consists of three folders of textual material: a commemorative booklet with a handdrawn graphic on the front of the garment factory in Sweden where Osher Minski worked. Inside the booklet are signatures of his fellow employees. The second file contains a sewing pattern cut out of Swedish newspape…

Collection: Minski/Boltz Family Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 3 files of textual material

Scope and Content: Consists of three folders of textual material: a commemorative booklet with a handdrawn graphic on the front of the garment factory in Sweden where Osher Minski worked. Inside the booklet are signatures of his fellow employees. The second file contains a sewing pattern cut out of Swedish newspapers and the third file contains a Yiddish newspaper article from the Forvert regarding an acquaintance of the Minskis who rescused to children from the Soviet Union and eventually brought them to Israel.

Date: ca195[?]-1956

Fonds No.: 1248

Storage Location: 7-3C; SC3

Creator: Osher Minski

History / Biographical: The Minski (sometimes spelt Minsky) escaped Poland and forced labour in the Soviet Union after World War II and lived in Sweden for some years. Eventually they emigrated to Montreal. Osher Minski (the patriarch) was a skilled tailor and worked in a Swedish garment factory while in Sweden. The mother was also a seamstress and made clothes from patterns.

Custodial History: Donated by Paula Boltz, daughter of Osher Minski, as well as the Minski sons, David and Sam Minsky.

Notes: Stored in Small Collections container #3 (SC3).

Subjects: Tailors; Minski (Minsky) Family; Garment industry; Sweden

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives