The sermon includes an excerpt from a Christian writer suggesting that the practice of Ancient Jewish Law (ablutions, personal cleanliness) spared Jewish lives during the outbreak. The date is likely to be Thursday, January 3rd, 1850.
SAINT JOHN/ File 1: Press clippings; correspondence, including immigration letters; St. John Jewish members list 1940; Shaarei Zedek newsletter and invitation; miscellaneous
Includes letter from the Premier of New Brunswick, Richard Hatfield as well as correspondence from the St. John branch of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
YUKON and NORTHWEST TERRITORIES (NWT): Press clippings; Whitehorse Jewish community press release - 'Reclamation of Klondike Gold Rush Jewish Cemetery in Dawson City' and Bet Chaim cemetery rededication; vacation guide booklets; etc.
TROIS RIVIERES: Press clippings; 1831 Petition for Equality of Jews under the Law, submitted by Samuel Becancour Hart; Jewish cemetery backgrounders, memorandum re re-burial in Montreal of remains of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Belasco, cemetery desecration; correspondence; 'Index du Fonds Hart aux Archives du Seminaire de Trois Rivieres; 'The Member from Trois Rivieres' - M. Charles Cohen play about Ezekiel Hart; etc.