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Joseph Schwartz and Gary Solway
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Recreation sub-series
- 1955 Family Gathering at the Cottage in Bobcaygeon file
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 80; Series 5-2; File 4; Item 3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Recreation sub-series
- 1955 Family Gathering at the Cottage in Bobcaygeon file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 5-2
- File
- 4
- Item
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1955
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w (negative) ; 7 x 6 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Joseph Schwartz was born in the United States. He had four daughers, Sylvia, Helen, Fanny and Ruth. Joseph was a furier who eventually set up his own business, J. Schwartz & Co. Ltd., a fur manufacturing company on Madison Avenue. He later became a partner in the Park Plaza Hotel on Avenue Road.
- Gary Solway was born in 1957 and is the eldest son of Herbert Solway and Elaine Solway (née Basin) and the great-nephew of Sylvia Schwartz. He began his Bachelor of Commerce at Queen's University in 1976, completeing three years there and then finishing the degree in 1981, after doing his first year of a Bachelor of Laws at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in 1979-1980. He completed his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Toronto in 1983.
- Gary was a Partner with Torys LLP firm from 1983 to 2006 until becoming the Co-Head of the Bennett Jones LLP firm's Private Equity Group and Managing Partner of the Technology, Media and Entertainment Group.
- Gary speaks frequently at conferences on topics related to financing of technology businesses. A regular writer, he contributed a number of chapters to Directors' Duties in Canada, 5th Edition, published in Canada by CCH Canadian Limited in 2012, and the Ontario Corporations Law Guide, published in Canada by CCH Canadian Limited. Gary is also the secretary of the CVCA, Canada's venture capital and private equity association.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Joseph Schwartz and Gary Solway.
- Notes
- This item has no proofs.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Related Material
- See Fonds 80, series 5 for more portraits of the Schwartz and Solway families.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions