BRONFMAN, Allan.

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Collection
BRONFMAN, Allan.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
1.42 metres of textual records. - Env. 800 photographs.
Fonds No.
P0026
Date
1930-1980.
Scope and Content
Biographical press clippings. Typescripts of speeches. Invitations and tributes, event programmes. Awards. Minutes, reports, newsletters. Correspondence about Boy Scouts, Aid to Russia, Jewish General Hospital, charitable donations, Jewish schools. Order of Saint John. Press clippings on the Legion…
Collection
BRONFMAN, Allan.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
1.42 metres of textual records. - Env. 800 photographs.
Scope and Content
Biographical press clippings. Typescripts of speeches. Invitations and tributes, event programmes. Awards. Minutes, reports, newsletters. Correspondence about Boy Scouts, Aid to Russia, Jewish General Hospital, charitable donations, Jewish schools. Order of Saint John. Press clippings on the Legion of Honour
Date
1930-1980.
Fonds No.
P0026
History / Biographical
Allan Bronfman was born in 1895 in Brandon, Manitoba. He was a barrister, industrialist, philanthropist and a Zionist. He was a vice-president of Seagram's Ltd. He was a founder and first president of Montreal's Jewish General Hospital and of Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University in Israel. As well, he was general chairman of the first Combined Jewish Appeal in Montreal 1941. He received the French Legion of Honour and from England the Order of St. John, and the Order of Malta's Grand Cross of Merit. He died in Montreal in 1980.
Notes
CJC Photo Collection PC 1. More than 800 photographs and 2 large photo albums coded PC 5, some stored in oversize boxes.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
Less detail