- Name
- Toba Fluxgold
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 1975
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Toba Fluxgold
- Number
- OH 8
- Subject
- Bakeries
- Immigrants--Canada
- Interview Date
- 1975
- Quantity
- 1 cassette (1 copy)
2 WAV files
- Interviewer
- Sheldon Steinberg
- Total Running Time
- 1:02 min.
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Digitized December 2014
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Conditional access. Researchers must receive permission from the interviewee or their heir prior to accessing the interview. Please contact the OJA for more information.
- Biography
- Toba Fluxgold was born in Warsaw, Poland and immigrated to Toronto with her father, older brother, and sister. Toba's father ventured into the bakery business and, in the early 1920s, opened his own kosher bakery in Toronto. Following her father's death in 1929, Toba’s brother Morris expanded and modernized the bakery and later sold it to Carmel Bakery. After her marriage in 1925, Toba moved to Arthur, Ontario, and returned to Toronto after the birth of her first child.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Geographic Access
- Arthur (Ont.)
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- St. John's Ward (Toronto, Ont.)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- Transcript exists for this oral history.
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Part Of
- Paul Edell fonds
- Business records series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 5
- Series
- 1
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1921
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- C. M. Herlick was Paul Edell's attorney.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a letter from C. M. Herlick regarding the purchase of 113 Elizabeth Street by Paul Edell.
- Places
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2012-11-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2012-11-1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- object
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records
- 5 objects
- 25 photographs
- Date
- 1945-2012
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records related to The Lizzies and the Lizzies Old Timer Association, including newspaper articles, membership lists, a proclamation, booklets, articles, photos, one hat, two shirts, and one luggage tag.
- Custodial History
- This material was gathered together by Bronstine and Cornack and donated to the archives. Further accruals from other former Lizzies are expected.
- Administrative History
- The Lizzies were a collection of sports teams that played amateur baseball and basketball in Toronto starting in 1912 in the school yard of the Elizabeth Street School. This “Playground” was situated in Toronto’s first Jewish quarter, St. John’s Ward, or simply “The Ward”. Supervised by the Parks Department’s Playground and Recreation branch, these playgrounds were popular places for inner-city children. They hosted athletic teams that competed in intramural competitions. The Lizzies won more than 150 titles at the city, provincial, and national levels in baseball, basketball, football, and hockey.Bob Abate (1893-1981), coached the Lizzies’ teams for 26 years and in 1990, the Elizabethan Recreation Centre (at Grace Street and Bloor Street West) was renamed the Bob Abate Recreation Centre in his honour. The Lizzies Old Timers Association is run by Harvey Bronstine and Norm Cornack and they bring together the remaining members of the Lizzies annually at a dinner.
- Subjects
- Sports teams
- Name Access
- Lizzies Old Timers Association
- Places
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-6-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-6-5
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (tiff)
- Date
- 1920-1926
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs of Rae Saul and her relatives outside the Saul family homes on Elizabeth or Venaly Street and Nassau Street. Identified are Millie Aaron, Anna Saul, and Sam Saul.
- Administrative History
- Joseph and Anna Saul came to Canada from Romania in the early 1900s. They had six children together: Sam (b. 1908), Rachel (Rae, b. 1910), Ida, Jeanette, Bonnie, and Dorothy. Joseph abandoned the family around 1923 and travelled to California to become an actor. Although his family never heard from him again, they later recognized him in movies under the name Maurice Samuels. Anna was deaf and mute and worked as a seamstress, making ladies clothing out of her own home. Rae obtained work in a hat factory when she was 13 years old and continued in this trade throughout the remainder of her life. Around 1950 she opened her own hat store at Eglinton and Dufferin called Rae's Hats. She briefly lived above the store with her husband, Sam Silverman.
- 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
- Families
- Name Access
- Aaron, Millie
- Saul, Anna
- Saul, Sam
- Silverman, Rae
- Places
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Nassau Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1441
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1441
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [between 1909 and 1911]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of an unidentified man holding a child in front of store in St. John's Ward, Toronto.
- Subjects
- Small business
- 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
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- St. John's Ward (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1977-7-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Scenes from The Ward in the early 20th Century fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 43
- Item
- 10
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Physical Description
- 3 slides : b&w ; 8 x 8 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a woman buying a chicken in the Ward. The store in the background is that of S. Zlotkin, a grocery and poultry shop possibly located at 98 Elizabeth St.
- Notes
- Original is a glass slide with a black tape border.
- Title taken from label on the slide.
- Name Access
- Zlotkin, S.
- 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
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 2005-5-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1312
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1312
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1913
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of the Wolfish family of Toronto standing in front of their store on Elizabeth Street.
- Name Access
- Wolfish family
- Subjects
- Families
- Portraits, Group
- Storefronts
- 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
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1977-6-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3036
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3036
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1925]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Name Access
- Rosenblatt, Julius
- Subjects
- Storefronts
- 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
- Chestnut Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1981-8-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1542
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1542
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1925]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Gary's Groceries (Toronto, Ont.)
- Gary, Joseph
- Subjects
- Storefronts
- 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
- Elizabeth Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-11-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions