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Dora Dworkin, Toronto
- Part Of
- Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 45
- Item
- 18
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 29 x 22 cm on mat 44 x 28 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Dorothy Dworkin (née Goldstick) was born in Latvia in 1890. She was the daughter of William and Sarah Goldstick. She came to Canada in 1904 at 14 years of age. She studied nursing in the United States, by training at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland. She then took her exams in midwifery, and in 1909, she received her diploma from the State Board of Ohio.
- In 1911 she married Henry Dworkin, who was the founder of the Toronto Labour Lyceum. Henry opened a variety store in 1917, which later became a tobacco and shipping agency business called Dworkin Travel, located at 525 Dundas Street West. Together, the Dworkins helped bring in hundreds of immigrants from Poland, Roumania and Latvia. The couple had a daughter, Ellen, whom they referred to as Honey. In 1928, Henry was tragically killed in an automobile accident. After her husband's death, Dorothy brought up her daughter alone, ran the travel business, and continued to do charitable work with Mount Sinai Hospital.
- Scope and Content
- Portrait of Dorothy Dworkin taken when she was in her 30s at the Lyonde Photo Studio in Toronto.
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Portraits
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Related Material
- See Dorothy Dworkin fonds 10.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-10-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions