COHEN, Lyon.
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- Collection
- COHEN, Lyon.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.04 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0037
- Date
- 1904-1937.
- Scope and Content
- Manuscript of address before third Canadian Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in 1936. Press clippings and correspondence paying tribute to his public service.
- Collection
- COHEN, Lyon.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.04 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Manuscript of address before third Canadian Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in 1936. Press clippings and correspondence paying tribute to his public service.
- Date
- 1904-1937.
- Fonds No.
- P0037
- History / Biographical
- Born in 1868, Lyon Cohen was a businessman and a philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Canadian Jewish Times, the first anglo-Jewish periodical in Canada; treasurer of the Montreal Reform Club; former President of Jewish Colonization Association in Canada, Baron de Hirsch Institute, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Canadian Jewish Congress 1919, Montreal Va'ad Ha'ir; organized Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada. He died in 1937
- Notes
- Mostly originals, press clippings.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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