Accession Number

1998-12-4

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

56 photographs : b&w and col. (27 negatives) ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

1 postcard

Date

1909-[ca. 1980]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of a collection of copy and original photographs documenting the life of the Dime family and their relatives in locations including Belleville, Oshawa, Toronto, the Muskoka Sanitorium, and Goose Bay, Labrador.

Photo Captions:

001: Sam and Dorothy Dime, Dime’s Drug Store, 568 Jarvis Street, Toronto, [1957?].

002: Street view of Dime’s Pharmacy, 568 Jarvis Street, Toronto, 1960.

003: Sgt. Sam Dime, Pharmacy, Goose Bay Labrador, 1944.

004: Ada Dime, with Ben [Safe] and Sam Dime, secondhand furniture, 56 King St. West, Oshawa, ON, 1921.

005: Sam Dime with dog [4F], Goose Bay, Labrador, 1944.

006: Sam Dime, 56 King St. W., Oshawa, ON, ca. 1920-21.

007: Rabbi Isaac Stein with grandchildren Izzie (left) and Donna, Toronto, 1930.

008: Portrait of Ada Dime (née Aronson) with her brother Sammy Aronson, 273 Yonge Street, Toronto, ca. 1915.

009: Portrait of David and Sammy Tobe, Belleville, ON, [1909]. Photograph by R. McCormick Belleville.

010: Morris Bernard of Belleville, Overseas, First World War, ca. 1918.

011: David Dime, (age 25), 1914. The Dutch Studio Vander Feen, 318 Yonge St. Toronto, ON, [192-?].

012: Unidentified group of children, [19--?].

013: Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Tobe with their children David and Sammy, Belleville, ON, [1920]. Photograph by R. McCormick Belleville.

014: Portrait of David and Ada Dime with daughter Anne, Belleville, ON, ca. 1915.

015: Mickey and Riva Marcus, Belleville, ON, ca. 1917-18.

016: Ada Dime, 30 Simcoe Street, Oshawa, ON, 1930.

017: Tobie Green (m. Dime), her brother Hershel Goldman and Goldie Fryman, St. Patrick Street Between Elm & Dundas, [Toronto], ON, 1924.

018: Cheder class, Oshawa Hebrew Congregation, Beth Zion,45 Albert Street in Oshawa, Ontario, 1922. Back row (L to R): Simma Engel, Rabbi Primack's son, Rabbi Primack's daughter, Annie Dime, Annie Hennick, Sara Rainish. Front row (L to R): Clara Engel (m. Rubin), Maxie Rainish, Irving Oilgissor, Becky Rainish, Sam Dime, [Primack child?], Rabbi Primack.

019: David Dime (back row, right), Muskoka Sands, July ca. 1922

020: Oshawa Belleville group, Belleville, Ontario, ca. 1930. Back row: Mr. Diamond, Goldie Engel, Abe Swartz, [unidentified], Faige Swartz, Sarah Golub, Sue [Sape], Hymie Golub. Front row: Mrs. Lepofsky, Mildred Golub.

021: National Council of Jewish Women, 44 St. George Street, ca. 1943. Also pictured is Betty Stone and Dora Stein (4th left).

022: Sam Dime, Dime’s Pharmacy, 568 Jarvis Street, Toronto, ca. 1951.

023: Dorothy Stein (m. Dime) at closing of canteen, 44 St. George Street, Toronto, 1945. Photographer Globe & Mail.

024: Ada and David Dime, Muskoka Sands, Gravenhurst, ca. 1922.

025: Canadian Jewish Congress Service Mens Club postcard, ca. 1940s.

026: Mrs. Ada Dime, Dime’s Dry Goods, 30 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, ON, 1926.

027: David Dime (left), with orphans in Baron de Hirsch Farm in Saskatchewan, ca. 1906.

Administrative History

The donor Sam Dime served in the Second World War. In 1947 Sam and his wife Dorothy Dime (née Stein) opened Dime's Drug Store at 568 Jarvis Street in Toronto. The pair operated the Jarvis Street institution for thirty-nine years and officially closed their store in 1986.

Use Conditions

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Subjects

World War, 1939-1945

Places

Oshawa (Ont.)

Belleville (Ont.)

Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)

Saskatchewan

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2005-7-3

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

ca. 300 slides : col. ; 35 mm

Date

1977-1978

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs taken during visits by CJC Central Region officers to Ontario Jewish communities, and at Canadian Jewish Congress events and meetings in various communities. Accession also includes photos of Jewish interest in Italy.

Subjects

Communities

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Friedman, Morris

Markish, Esther

Eisenberg, Joe

Wexler, Boris

Acker, Abe

Brownstone, Sam

Klafter, Gershon

Rosen, Marty

Fackenheim, Emil

Rosensweig, Philip

Saiger, Norman

Sadowski, David

Gryfe, Mark

Hillel (Kingston, Ont.)

Frey, Marcus

Horowitz, Shlomo

Katz, Stan

Pliscow, Morris

Places

Cambridge (Ont.)

Chatham (Ont.)

Sudbury (Ont.)

Kirkland Lake (Ont.)

Thunder Bay (Ont.)

Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.)

North Bay (Ont.)

Oshawa (Ont.)

Belleville (Ont.)

Windsor (Ont.)

Pembroke (Ont.)

Peterborough (Ont.)

Guelph (Ont.)

Hamilton (Ont.)

London (Ont.)

Kitchener (Ont.)

Owen Sound (Ont.)

Toronto (Ont.)

Barrie (Ont.)

Orillia (Ont.)

Kingston (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2007-6-30

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

textual record (electronic)

Physical Description

17 photographs : b&w and col. (jpg)

1 document : col. (jpg)

Date

[ca. 1955]-[2003?]

Scope and Content

Accession is comprised of family and community photographs of two generations of the Albert family of Belleville. Images include rabbis Moses Lewin and Walter Seligman, friends, events such as bar mitzvahs, Ethnic Day and a Purim Party, and the Trenton Airbase Jewish Servicemen memorial. People pictured are identified in the finding aid. There is also one electronic copy of a newsclipping about Rabbi Moses Lewin.

The photographs are as follows:

01. Joe Burke far right Norman Albert in middle Ruth Goldberg far right, 1950s.

02. Belleville Community Picnic at the Albert's Summer House.

03. David Albert, 1960.

04. David Albert bar mitzvah with Rabbi Seligmann and wife.

05. Ethnic Day at the Shul, mid-1970s.

06. Florence Yannover.

07. Jacob Albert with grandsons, 1958.

08. Left to right: Ruth Lear and Becky Shulmann and Sarah Lightstone in back.

09. Left to right: Selma Bochnek, Shirley Osborne, Ethel Burke, Walter and Mrs Seligmann at synagogue dinner dance.

10. Mark and Michelle and David Albert, March 20 1971, bar mitzvah.

11. Norm and Lil and Jacob Albert and Rose.

12. Purim Party, 1957.

13. Purim Party. Joe Burke and Mynra Crystal of Peterborough, April 1957.

14. Rabbi Moses Lewin.

15. Shulman Departure, May 1985.

16. Trenton Airbase Jewish Servicemen Memorial, ca. 2003.

17. Ted and Eleanor Schwab.

Subjects

Communities

Families

Name Access

Albert, Carole

Albert, Norm

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2007-11-2

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

9 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller

Date

1943-1977

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material related to the Belleville Jewish community, in particular, the Schwab family and the Sons of Jacob Synagogue. It includes one copy of the Sons of Jacob Synagogue dedication book, a programme from brotherhood week and several photographs of the Schwab family and other members of the community.

The photographs are as follows:

1. Ben Safe and Julius Abramsky holding a large fish (1943).

2. Sid Rose, Ted Schwab and Art Black (1947).

3. Mike Levine, Paul Yanover, Ben Yanover, Eve Yanover, Vera Levine, Nellie Schwab, Sylvia Schwab and Stephen Schwab on the beach (1948).

4. Stephen Schwab's bar mitzvah portrait (1952).

5. Belleville Sisterhood group portrait (ca. 1960). Pictured, top row, left to right: Mrs. Pollak, unidentified, unidentified, Niomi Spiegel, Carol Albert, Cathy Mazer, Hilda Tuchmayer, unidentified, Mrs. Sylvia Freeman. Middle row, left to right: unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Blooma Tobe, unidentified, Becky Shulman, Mrs. Gittleman, Mrs. Goldberg, Mrs. Esther Yanover, unidentified. Front row, left to right: Nellie Schwab, Sue Black, Jennie Nemtin, Bernice Mandel, Flo Yanover, Lil Albert.

6. Sue and Art Black (ca. 1965).

7. Copy family portrait of Theodore, Stephen, Nellie, and Sylvia Schwab (24 October 1952).

8. Michael Basch with the Torah scrolls at his bar mitzvah (1977).

9. Michael Basch at the bimah during his bar mitzvah (1977).

Administrative History

The Schwab family were one of the earliest Jewish families in Belleville. Theodore Schwab owned a stationary store.

Use Conditions

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Subjects

Communities

Families

Synagogues

Name Access

Basch, Sylvia

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2008-8-4

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

3 cm of textual records

4 photographs : b&w (jpg)

4 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller

Date

[194-]-2005

Scope and Content

This accession consists of textual records and photographs documenting the Belleville Jewish community and the Sons of Jacob Synagogue. The textual records include a dedication book from the Synagogue as well as documents related to the synagogue's reunion weekend in 2005. The photographs depict the Judaeans basketball team, a Young Judaea conference, the synagogue's dedication ceremonies, and a children's Purim play.

Use Conditions

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.

Subjects

Communities

Purim

Synagogues

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2009-9-4

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

1 photograph (jpg)

Date

[ca. 1948]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one scanned photograph of a cheder class in the basement of the synagogue in Belleville. Identified are: Bill Mayer, Rabbi Babb, Ron Gitelman, Sandra Yanover, Stanley Albert, Janet Salz (nee Charendoff), Steven Schwab, Barbara Abramsky, Jane Yanover, Paul Yanover, and Gloria Lipes.

Use Conditions

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.

Subjects

Children

Heder

Portraits, Group

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Level

Item

Item

1784

Material Format

graphic material

Date

3 Jun. 1969

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print of Hy Bocknek speaking at a podium at a JNR banquet in Belleville, Ontario.

Name Access

Bocknek, Hy

Subjects

Speeches, addresses, etc

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1979-9-42

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1977

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a colour photograph of the interior of the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario.

Notes

This photograph is very poor quality. It is very dark.

Name Access

Sons of Jacob Synagogue (Belleville, Ont.)

Subjects

Synagogues

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-9-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide of the gates to the Jewish cemetery in Belleville, Ontario.

Subjects

Cemeteries

Gates

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm.

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide depicting headstones in the Jewish cemetery in Belleville, Ontario.

Subjects

Cemeteries

Sepulchral monuments

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm.

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide depicting the Mayer family headstone in the Jewish cemetery in Belleville, Ontario.

Subjects

Cemeteries

Sepulchral monuments

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm.

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide depicting a headstone in the Jewish cemetery in Belleville, Ontario.

Subjects

Cemeteries

Sepulchral monuments

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm.

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide depicting headstones in the Jewish cemetery in Belleville, Ontario.

Subjects

Cemeteries

Sepulchral monuments

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm.

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide depicting a headstone in the Jewish cemetery in Belleville, Ontario.

Subjects

Cemeteries

Sepulchral monuments

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm.

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide of the Jewish cemetery in Belleville, Ontario.

Subjects

Cemeteries

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm.

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide of the Jewish cemetery in Belleville, Ontario.

Subjects

Cemeteries

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm.

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide of the former Sons of Jacob Synagogue building at 122 Pinnacle Street in Belleville, Ontario. Today, this site houses the Legion Hall.

Notes

See also photo #4101.

Subjects

Architecture

Synagogues

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm.

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide of the former Sons of Jacob Synagogue building at 122 Pinnacle Street in Belleville, Ontario. Today, this site houses the Legion Hall.

Notes

Also see photo #4097

Subjects

Architecture

Synagogues

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm.

Scope and Content

This item is an original slide of Chez Myren, a secondhand, dry goods store in Belleville, Ontario. The store was owned by the former rabbi of Belleville.

Name Access

Myren, Chez

Subjects

Storefronts

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Aug. 1978

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide (Kodachrome) ; 35 mm

Subjects

Cemeteries

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-8-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1919]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy portrait of Moses Tobe and David Dime, business partners from Belleville, Ontario. Also pictured is a small child named Sam, who is standing on a wicker chair.

Subjects

Businessmen

Children

Portraits, Group

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.

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-7-10

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2015-9-6

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

1950-1972

Scope and Content

Accession consists of letters to and from Dr. Joseph Klinghofer, the Educational Director of Canadian Jewish Congress. The correspondence relates to the search for ritual and educational leaders for placement in Jewish communities outside of Toronto such as St. Catharines, Timmins, Belleville, Peterborough, Kirkland Lake, Guelph, Hamilton, Bramalea, North Bay, Windsor, Maritimes, Manitoba and the USA.

Custodial History

There is no information on the acquisition of this material.

Subjects

Education

Religion

Communities

Name Access

Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.)

Klinghofer, Joseph

Places

St. Catharines (Ont.)

Timmins (Ont.)

Belleville (Ont.)

Peterborough (Ont.)

Kirkland Lake (Ont.)

Guelph (Ont.)

Hamilton (Ont.)

Bramalea (Brampton, Ont.)

North Bay (Ont.)

Windsor (Ont.)

Manitoba

United States

Maritime Provinces

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

The Shuls Project fonds

Ontario synagogues series

Level

File

Fonds

64

Series

2

File

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1979

Physical Description

20 photographs : col. slides, (1) b&w print, b&w negatives ; 35 mm and 12 x 9 cm

Subjects

Synagogues

Repro Restriction

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

The Shuls Project fonds

Reference series

Level

File

Fonds

64

Series

5

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

1956

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File contains a photocopied article, "Brief History of the Belleville Jewish Community."

Subjects

Synagogues

Repro Restriction

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2022-2-4

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

13 cm of textual records

Date

[197-]-2008

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting the Sons of Jacob Congregation of Belleville, Ontario. Included are meeting minutes, handwritten notes, and a copy of the synagogue's constitution, as well as other textual records.

Custodial History

The files belonged to the donor's parents. The latter were active in the Sons of Jacob Congregation (Mike's mother was the secretary for a time).

Descriptive Notes

Availability of other formats: Constitution also available as a PDF file.

Subjects

Synagogues

Name Access

Sons of Jacob Congregation (Belleville, Ont.)

Places

Belleville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions