BROCK, Hyman.
- Collection
- BROCK, Hyman.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 4 textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0194
- Date
- 1958-1959.
- Scope and Content
- 2 copies of oversize 3-colour Federal election poster with Yiddish text for Hyman Brock, Conservative party candidate. Travel magazine "Caravan", containing photo of a Brock election poster in Yiddish, 1959. 2 business cards for Brock Corporation.
- Collection
- BROCK, Hyman.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 4 textual records.
- Scope and Content
- 2 copies of oversize 3-colour Federal election poster with Yiddish text for Hyman Brock, Conservative party candidate. Travel magazine "Caravan", containing photo of a Brock election poster in Yiddish, 1959. 2 business cards for Brock Corporation.
- Date
- 1958-1959.
- Fonds No.
- P0194
- History / Biographical
- Hyman Brock was born January 1924 in Montreal. He ran for the Conservative Party under Diefenbaker 1957 (losing narrowly to Leon Crestohl.) He was a Montreal City Councillor under Drapeau for 14 years. Owner of a Steel Company in Brockville and later Montreal named Brock Engineering Manufacturing Co., also owner of Brock Steel. He was an active volunteer in numerous Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, including International Chairman of Mensa and a member of Intertel. He died in November 1997.
- Custodial History
- The collection was donated by Mrs Barbara Brock, his widow, on Aug. 11, 2003.
- Notes
- The posters are slightly damaged.P03/14.English and Yiddish.This collection includes rare Yiddish political poster of the Diefenbaker era.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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