Accession Number

2003-9-1

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records and graphic material

Date

1929-1942

Scope and Content

This accession consists of material donated by Sid Caplan. The records document Sid as a child, his parents, and their barbershop, which was located at 468 College Street. The records consist of the wedding ketubah of his parents from 1928 as well as photographs of Sid Caplan and his classmates at King Edward Public School, and finally, photographs of the family barbershop.

Administrative History

Alexander Caplan and Fannie Gangbar married in Toronto in 1928. They had a son named Sid Caplan. The Caplan's ran a barbershop located on College Street near Bathurst Street from the 1930s until the 1970s. The couple both worked there along with their employee, Sid Sugarman.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Barbershops

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

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Accession Number

2004-5-43

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

12 photographs : b&w (4 negatives) ; 13 x 18 cm or smaller

Date

May 1948

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs and negatives of a parade on College Street, Toronto celebrating the establishment of the State of Israel. Identified is Mrs. Greenberg, the leader of the girl guides. The girl guide carrying the British flag is Gloria Mosoff (her married name is Roden).

Subjects

Israel--History--Declaration of Independence, 1948

Parades

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

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Accession Number

2004-5-74

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

6 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Date

1948

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs taken on College Street in Toronto of a parade celebrating the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948.

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

Israel--History--Declaration of Independence, 1948

Parades

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Item

Item

4057

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Samuel, Rose, and David Smith on the Smith farm in Cedar Valley, Ontario. The farm was owned by Jacob and Rose Smith.

Subjects

Farms

Mothers and sons

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1985-12-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4058

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1920]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print of Samuel and David Smith at their farm in Cedar Valley, Ontario. The Smith farm was owned by their parents, Jacob and Rose.

Subjects

Boys

Brothers

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1985-12-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4059

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1922]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Jacob Smith holding his nephew Donald Davis, at his farm in Cedar Valley, Ontario.

Subjects

Farmers

Infants

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.

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1985-12-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4060

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1930]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of David Smith (pictured on the horse) with his brother-in-law, Max Weisbrod, at Jacob and Rose Smith's farm in Cedar Valley, Ontario.

Subjects

Farms

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1985-12-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4061

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1924]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Jacob Smith seated on horse-drawn field machinery at his farm in Cedar Valley, Ontario.

Subjects

Farms

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1985-12-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4062

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1922]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Jacob Smith with his brother-in-law Frank Davis at the Smith family farm in Cedar Valley, Ontario.

Subjects

Farms

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1985-12-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4063

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1925]

Physical Description

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

Admin History/Bio

Jacob Smith was married to Rose Smith.

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Jacob Smith with his dog at his farm in Cedar Valley, Ontario.

Name Access

Smith, Jacob

Subjects

Dogs

Farms

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1985-12-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3795

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1911

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Sam Kreiger with his brother Charles (on right) in front of the Kreiger Bros. store in Conn, Ontario.

Name Access

Kreiger Bros. Store

Kreiger, Charles

Kreiger, Sam

Subjects

Brothers

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1985-9-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gordon Mendly fonds

Portraits series

Level

Item

Fonds

18

Series

1

Item

29

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1960]

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Gordon Mendly in his studio on College Street.

Repro Restriction

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

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gordon Mendly fonds

Portraits series

Level

Item

Fonds

18

Series

1

Item

30

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1960]

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm

Admin History/Bio

Sarah (née Rawet) Mendly was born to Shapsa and Feiga Rawet. The family immigrated to Canada sometime around 1926. Sarah was the president of the Toronto Chapter of the B’nai Brith Ladies’ Auxiliary, the Herzl Zion Ladies’ Auxiliary, the Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital. Sarah Mendly was the wife of photographer, Gordon Mendly. She died on 31 December 1992.

Scope and Content

Item is a portrait of Sarah Mendly in her husband's studio on College Street.

Subjects

Immigrants--Canada

Repro Restriction

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

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

William Stern fonds

Family photographs series

Level

Item

Fonds

33

Series

1

Item

32

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1946]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 9 x 7 cm and 35 mm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Bill Stern and his first wife Laura (Rubinstein) Stern, standing in front of the Forestry building at St. George Street and College Street.

Subjects

Married people

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Saint George Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2006-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2013-9-7

Material Format

graphic material (electronic)

Physical Description

5 photographs

Date

1920-1977

Scope and Content

5 electronic copies of black and white photographs relted to Wellts Deli: 1) Peter and Fannie Wellts 2) Peter Wellts with cleaver in hand in the deli. 3) Exterior of Wellts Deli (1959) taken by realtor when it closed. 4-5) exterior of Wellt's Deli taken in 1977 before building was being torn down. The word "Kosher" in Yiddish/Hebrew is still visible.

Administrative History

Wellts Delicatessen was founded by Peter and Fannie Wellts in the 1910s at 350 College Street. Peter Wellts was born in Tarnigrad, Poland in 1888 and Fannie Brown was born in New York City in 1889. They met in New York and moved with Fannie’s family to Toronto in 1910. Peter worked in the garment district prior at the start of the restaurant business. Fannie’s father David Brown had come earlier from New York to work for Eaton’s in the men’s clothing business. The rest of the Brown family, Fannie’s parents and siblings eventually returned to New York. Peter and Fannie married in Toronto on November 26, 1910. They had two daughters Sylvia (b. August 26, 1911) (m. Walfish) and Ethel (b. January 7, 1928) (m. Rochwerg). They lived in an apartment above the delicatessen. When Ethel married her husband Nathan Rochwerg in 1948, they moved in with Fannie and Peter above the deli. Ethel and Nathan had three children Martin, Arlene (m. Kochberg), and Sidney. When Peter was in his 70s, it was decided that the family would move north into the Bathurst Manor and close the deli. Peter had a heart attack on December 26, 1959, before the move, and Fannie moved in with Nathan and Ethel and their three children. The deli closed in 1959. The deli was known for 5 cent pastrami/corned beef sandwiches sold during the depression. Peter Wellts never let anyone go hungry during this period. They had Vernor's ginger ale on tap during a time when everything was in bottles. Deliveries would come in through the backyard by the garage. It was kosher. Ethel remembers people coming in to use the phone in the kitchen or the washroom in the basement.

Use Conditions

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

Descriptive Notes

Related material note: an article on the deli from one of the local daily newspapers from 1969 is in a vertical file on Wellt's Deli

Subjects

Delicatessens

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

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Accession Number

2016-3-63

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

[192-?]-1953

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material primarily documenting kosher meat scandals and strikes in Toronto in the 1920s and 1930s as well as the Kehilla (Toronto Rabbinical Board). There are complete pages of some documents and portions of others. The documents are flyers (public notices) in Yiddish (with some Hebrew in religious context and quotations) to do with a scandal or several scandals in which it became clear a number of butchers were operating outside Rabbinical Board supervision and therefore selling (assumed to be) treif meat to Toronto Jews. Secondary scandal with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart, who allegedly split off from the Rabbinical Board with six butchers to do business outside the union, with wholesalers, and gaining more money than union butchers and the rabbis working with them. Another thread relates to a strike for cheaper meat, including meetings of women picketers, and then for better conditions for local butchers. The flyers mostly fall between 1920-1940. All are from Toronto. Lists of local butchers’ shops with addresses and names are included.

Additional flyers cover Communist protests and protest meetings against German fascism and pogroms, specifically Hitler's government's prosecution of the Communist Party of Germany related to the Reichstag fire. Also included are a 1953 flyer for the tenth anniversary commemoration of the Latvian-Lithuanian Jews’ annihilation, and an open letter to Rabbi Abraham Aaron Price regarding his title.

Custodial History

There is no information on the acquisition of this material. However, retrieved from the original package in which the material was lodged was a note "Kashruth fliers from E. Miller" or Mitler.

Descriptive Notes

Language: Yiddish with some Hebrew (phrases and quotations).

Subjects

Demonstrations

Kosher food

Rabbis

Places

Augusta Avenue (Toronto. Ont.)

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Dundas Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Kensington Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

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2016-11-26

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 6 x 9 cm

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one original negative and one copy print of Paskowetz's Meat Inn on College St.

Administrative History

Paskowetz's delicatessen was located on the north side of College Street between Brunswick Avenue and Major Street. Other businesses in the neighbourhood described by one time area resident Harry Turk included: The [Playhouse Theatre] (next door to Paskowetz's deli); Wellts Delicatessen owned by Peter Wellts (west of Paskowetz's deli), Imperial Gas station at College and Major Streets owned by the Rubinoff family and Beckers Delicatessen, owned by the Becker family, located on the south side of College Street. Milt Moskowitz, a Major Street kid recalls "the fragrance of hot dogs boiling in a big pot in the window. They cost 5 cents and I only ate one that my older brother (he was twenty and working and I was seven) bought me once. Wow. It was delicious."

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.

Descriptive Notes

DATE RANGE NOTE: A victory bonds sticker can be seen in the bottom left corner of the deli window.

Subjects

Delicatessens

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2018-4-2

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

4 photographs : b&w and col. ; 19 x 24 cm or smaller

2 folders of textual records

Date

1946-[197-]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting Dorothy and Paul Eker, the grandparents of Glen Eker. Included are: four photographs (one of Dorothy, two of Paul, and one of Osgoode Hall Law School Graduating Class of 1952); a document acknowledging the appointment of Paul to the position of notary public in the province of Ontario; a document calling Paul to the degree of barrister-at-law; and a document certifying Paul's swearing in as a solictor general of the Supreme Court of Ontario.

Custodial History

Associated materials: Other accessions donated by Glen Eker include 2018-3-1, 2018-4-1, 2018-4-16, and 2018-5-1.

Administrative History

Glen Eker was born in Toronto, Ontario to Paul Eker and Dorothy Horwitz. He grew up in the Forest Hill neighbourhood of Toronto before moving with his family to Hamilton. He received two master’s degrees (one in sociology, the other in political science) from McMaster University and a third master’s degree (in library science) from the University of Toronto.

Glen's wife, Deborah Pekilis, was born in Montreal and lived there until her parents moved to Toronto. She was the librarian for the Jewish Genealogical Society and sat on the Hamilton Historical Board. She is currently a writer.

Glen has worked as a research assistant and a teaching assistant at McMaster and has taught at Ryerson University and Mohawk College. At present, he works as an estate and genealogy researcher.

Glen has published a book on Karl Marx, five indexes of Jews in Canada, and one index of Amish and Mennonites in Canada. His genealogy articles have appeared in various magazines and his short stories and poems have appeared in print as well.

Glen has worked on his family genealogy for a number of years. His paternal family line derives from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland while his maternal line derives from Byelorussia and Romania. He is descended from the Horwitz and Strachman families on the latter.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Lawyers

Name Access

Eker (family)

Eker, Glen

Places

Ontario

Source

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Accession Number

2018-5-1

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

5 photographs : b & w ; 23 x 18 cm or smaller

Date

[191-]-1949

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting members of Glen Eker's family. Included are: copies of Benjamin Eker's military records, black and white photographs of Dorothy Horwitz and Paul Eker from their wedding album, and a Bayview Pharmacy Christmas card.

Administrative History

Glen Eker was born in Toronto, Ontario to Paul Eker and Dorothy Horwitz. He grew up in the Forest Hill neighbourhood of Toronto before moving with his family to Hamilton. He received two master’s degrees (one in sociology, the other in political science) from McMaster University and a third master’s degree (in library science) from the University of Toronto.

Glen's wife, Deborah Pekilis, was born in Montreal and lived there until her parents moved to Toronto. She was the librarian for the Jewish Genealogical Society and sat on the Hamilton Historical Board. She is currently a writer.

Glen has worked as a research assistant and a teaching assistant at McMaster and has taught at Ryerson University and Mohawk College. At present, he works as an estate and genealogy researcher.

Glen has published a book on Karl Marx, five indexes of Jews in Canada, and one index of Amish and Mennonites in Canada. His genealogy articles have appeared in various magazines and his short stories and poems have appeared in print as well.

Glen has worked on his family genealogy for a number of years. His paternal family line derives from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland while his maternal line derives from Byelorussia and Romania. He is descended from the Horwitz and Strachman families on the latter.

Descriptive Notes

Associated materials: Other accessions donated by Glen Eker include 2018-3,1, 2018-4-1, 2018-4-2, and 2018-4-16.

Subjects

Canada--Armed Forces

Families

Married people

Name Access

Eker (family)

Eker, Glen

Places

Ontario

Source

Archival Accessions

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Accession Number

2018-8-12

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

sound recording

Physical Description

4 folders

2 audio discs (ca. 82 min.) : vinyl

Date

1903-1986

Scope and Content

Accession consists of material documenting the Nirenberg family. Included are four folders of textual and graphic material documenting folk singer Miriam Nirenberg (née Goldberg), her husband Eliezar Nirenberg, and their two sons, Les and Harvey Nirenberg. Included also are two copies of Miriam Nirenberg's Folksongs in the East European Jewish Tradition on vinyl.

Use Conditions

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

Descriptive Notes

Availability of other formats: Access copies (jpg) have been created for the photographs; preservation copies (tif) have been created for the most fragile documents.

Finding aids: Caption table available for photographs.

Asssociated material: Records of Mariam Nirenberg's niece, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett,are located in the YIVO Archives and Library, including Kirshenblatt-Gimblett's field recordings of Mariam Nirenberg.

Accruals: Further accruals are expected.

Subjects

Families

Folk singers

Name Access

Nirenberg (family)

Nirenberg, Mariam

Places

Europe, Eastern

Ontario

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Level

Item

Item

1511

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1930 and 1935]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photo of the Kieltzer Sick Benifit Society. Pictured in the back row from left to right are: Gordon Mendly (1902-1998); [unknown]; Avrum Urman (?-1967) (president of Bakers' Union); Nathan (?) Rotfoge (?- 1964); Avromele Stancer (bakery on College St.); Getzel Tannenbaum (recording secretary); [?] Sugar (Sugar Bros. Tailors, College St.).

Seated left to right: Dovid Levy (worked at Eaton's); Aaron Ladovsky (United Bakers, called "Tate Fun Keltzer"); Noson Yasne (president); [?] Bader (vice-president); [unknown].

Notes

Photo by Famous Studios.

Name Access

Bader

Eaton's

Kieltzer Sick Benefit Society

Ladovsky, Aaron

Levy, Dovid

Mendly, Gordon, 1904-1998

Rotfogel

Stancer, Avromele

Sugar Bros. Tailors

Tannenbaum, Getzel

Urman, Avrum

United Bakers

Yasne, Noson

Subjects

Societies

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-3-6

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2927

Material Format

graphic material

Date

July 1940

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a panoramic photograph of individuals and families who were part of the Mozirer Sick Benefit Society sitting outside at a picnic at Appleton Farms, Ontario.

Notes

See also #1891 for negative.

Name Access

Appleton Farms

Mozirer Sick Benefit Society

Subjects

Picnics

Portraits, Group

Societies

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1981-7-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3519

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1936]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Admin History/Bio

Jack Sillen represented the Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA).

Name Access

Sillen, Jack

Ontario Amateur Wrestling Championships

YMHA

Subjects

Wrestlers

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1982-6-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2912

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1938

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

For identification information, please see accession record.

Name Access

Belvin House

Nelson, Pearl

Subjects

Weddings

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-4-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3516

Material Format

graphic material

Date

June 20, 1942

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

This photograph depicts those who participated in the Airmens Physical Training Instructor (P.T.I.) course.

Identified in the third row, extreme left: Jack Sillen.

Name Access

Sillen, Jack

Trenton Air Station

Subjects

Canada--Armed Forces

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1982-6-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1471

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1951

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Notes

Credit: The Jewish Post, Winnipeg.

Name Access

Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973

Subjects

Prime ministers--Israel

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-1-7

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

457

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1937

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Ida Strauss and Rose Kenwick (Kanowich) now Hersh at Camp Camperdown, July 1937.

Notes

Inscribed on front: "Camp Camperdown 1937" and on back "Camp Camperdown July 25, 1937 Ida Strauss and Rose Kenwick".

Name Access

Camp Camperdown

Kenwick, Rose

Strauss, Ida

Subjects

Camps

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

Ontario

Accession Number

Acquired April 7, 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

537

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative); 13 x 18 cm and 4 x 5 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a copy photograph of Kiwa Torem at Camp Borden, Military W.W. II, 1943.

Name Access

Canadian Forces Base Borden (Ont.)

Torem, Kiwa

Subjects

Military bases

World War, 1939-1945

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

Ontario

Accession Number

Acquired June 22, 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

538

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 4 x 5 cm)

Scope and Content

Item is a copy photograph of Kiwa Torem at Camp Borden, prior to going overseas, 1943.

Name Access

Canadian Forces Base Borden (Ont.)

Torem, Kiwa

Subjects

Military bases

World War, 1939-1945

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

Ontario

Accession Number

Acquired June 22, 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1544

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1935]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Gary's Groceries (Toronto, Ont.)

Gary, Joseph

Subjects

Stores, Retail

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-11-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1543

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1935]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Identifed in photo from left: Joseph Gary, Rosie Lachovicz and Goldie Gary.

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-11-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Henry Weingluck fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

44

Item

23

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Name Access

Power Store

Subjects

Storefronts

Repro Restriction

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

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Grace Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-2-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3188

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the interior of Zabrack Dry Goods.

Name Access

Zabrack's Dry Goods

Subjects

Dry-goods

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1982-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3187

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of a woman standing in front of Zabrack Dry Goods.

Name Access

Zabrack's Dry Goods

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1982-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Henry Weingluck fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

44

Item

22

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Name Access

Health Bread

Subjects

Stores, Retail

Streets

Repro Restriction

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

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Grace Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-2-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Henry Weingluck fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

44

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1948]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of H. W. Art Gallery at 665 College Street in Toronto. The location was Weingluck's first gallery in Toronto.

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-2-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Henry Weingluck fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

44

Item

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1950]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Weingluck's Art Gallery and Gift Shoppe at 665 College Street.

Subjects

Storefronts

Repro Restriction

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

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-2-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Henry Weingluck fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

44

Item

6

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1950]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 9 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Henry Weingluck standing in front of his gallery and gift shop at 623 College Street West, Toronto, called Weingluck's Art Gallery and Gift Shoppe.

Name Access

Weingluck's Art Gallery and Gift Shoppe

Subjects

Businesspeople

Portraits

Storefronts

Repro Restriction

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

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-2-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3666

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1915 and 1920]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Pictured in this photograph is Frank Podolsky and his daughter Faye (Schwab).

Name Access

Podolsky, Faye

Podolsky, Frank

Schwab, Faye

Vneeda Cigar Store

Subjects

Cigar industry

Fathers and daughters

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1984-10-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3754

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1930]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Louis Starkman is pictured on the left.

Subjects

Billiard parlors

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1985-5-14

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1489

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1934

Physical Description

1 photograph: b&w (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the class of Mr. A. T. Humphrey standing on the front steps of the Ogden School. Some of the boys are wearing "Leafs" and "Comets" sweaters.

Name Access

Ogden School

Humphrey, A. T.

Subjects

Students

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1977-8-28

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1785

Material Format

graphic material

Date

June 1935

Physical Description

1 photograph: b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Lansdowne School

Subjects

Students

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1979-11-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3414

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[193-?]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Subjects

Children

Streets

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Euclid Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1981-3-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Henry Weingluck fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

44

Item

21

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1960 and 1965]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

This photograph depicts a Good Friday procession along College Street. The view is from a second floor window.

Subjects

Good Friday

Processions

Streets

Repro Restriction

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

Places

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Grace Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-2-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

6028

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1938

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 14 x 47 cm and 12 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a copy photograph and corresponding negative of the staff and campers at the Balfour Manor Camp on Morrison Lake in the Muskoka region of Ontario. Identified individuals include: Irene Granovsky, Israel Gang, Nurse Haber, Cliff Fotheringham, Reuben Frank, Lahmi Frankel, Jack Granovsky, Martin Friedland, Sheldon Friedland and Audrey Rothschild.

Notes

See accession record for position of identified individuals.

Subjects

Camps

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

Ontario

Accession Number

1991-12-4

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3899

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1982

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a sing-along at a picnic organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress for members of the small Jewish communities of Ontario. The photograph depicts a group of people seated on picnic benches listening to a man with a guitar.

Subjects

Communities

Picnics

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1986-2-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

B'nai Brith Youth Organization, Lake Ontario Region fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

98

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

sound recording

Date

1932-2001, predominant 1990-1996

Physical Description

86 cm of textual records

ca. 300 photographs

2 wire recordings

Admin History/Bio

In accordance with the mandate and ideals of the International B'nai Brith Youth Organization (BBYO), the Lake Ontario Region (LOR) is dedicated to helping Jewish youth understand their history and culture while developing leadership skills through various activities and community service programs. BBYO was first introduced in Ontario as early as the 1920s but LOR was not officially established until after the Second World War. In 1929 the B'nai Brith Toronto Lodge sponsored the first youth chapter with 35 young men as bearers. Membership steadily grew overtime and new chapters began opening throughout the province. By the end of the Second World War, the rapid growth of new lodges and chapters resulted in the formal creation of the Southern Ontario Region (SOR), LOR's precursor. SOR included chapters in Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Guelph, and Peterborough. By the 1990s, its name had changed to LOR and chapters from Buffalo, Rochester, and Upstate New York were added to its jurisdiction.

LOR is organized into a series of chapters comprised of AZA (Aleph Zadik Aleph) for boys and BBG (B'nai Brith Girls) for girls with a focus on teens from grades 8-12. Chapters are supervised by an adult board and are youth-led. Members are democratically elected to office by their peers and have control over planning and organizing programs, which include dances, sports activities, festivals, fundraisers, group discussions, community services, trips abroad, and weekend conventions with other BBYO members. Summer camp programs are also offered with the goal of building interpersonal and leadership skills. LOR remains faithful to its original purpose of providing learning experiences for its youth and instilling within them the desire to contribute to their communities as confident and responsible adults.

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of records documenting the activities and programs of the B'nai Brith Youth Organization Lake Ontario Region. Included are meeting notices, agendas and minutes, correspondence, reports and evaluations, constitutions and by-laws, policies, financial records, membership statistics, brochures and booklets, scholarship and award applications, manuals, grant requests, photographs, scrapbooks, event invitations,newspaper clippings, programs, lists, publications, and flyers. Records such as statistics and by-laws also document the Laurentian Region, Red River Region, North Star Region, Evergreen Region and Northwest Canada Region.

Fonds is arranged into sixteen series: 1. BBYO Canada; 2. Regional Board of Directors; 3. Administration; 4. Relations; 5. Correspondence; 6. Reports and Evaluations; 7. Financial Accounts; 8. BBYO Youth Groups; 9. Chapter Advisors; 10. Chapters; 11. Membership; 12. Fundraising; 13. Scholarships and Awards; 14. Programs and Events; 15. Published Material; and 16. Photographs. There are two files attached to the fonds level.

Notes

Associated material note: additional material can be found in the B'nai Brith Canada fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

Name Access

B’nai Brith Youth Organization. Lake Ontario Region

Subjects

Youth movements

Repro Restriction

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

Physical Condition

Scrapbooks are in fragile condition with loose material inside. Some photographs are ripped, torn, and/or faded. The wire recordings need to be reveiwed and, if the contents are usable, digitized.

Creator

B'nai Brith Youth Organization, Lake Ontario Region

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

1977-7-4

2005-9-8

2006-3-10

2007-6-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Part Of

Gilbert Studios fonds

Miscellaneous collection series

Level

Item

Fonds

37

Series

9

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1927]

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

Murray Bernard Koffler was born in a four-room flat over his father's drugstore on College Street on 22 January 1924. His parents' names were Leon and Tiana Koffler (née Reinhorn). Murray married Marvelle Seligman, and they had five children: Leon, Theo, Tom, Adam, and Tiana.

Following in his father's footsteps, Murray was educated as a pharmacist and eventually took over the family drugstore when he was twenty-two years old. After making some profitable real-estate investments, he helped to co-found the Four Seasons Hotel chain and created the first self-serve pharmacy in Canada. His entrepreneurial talents led the way to the creation of the giant pharmacy franchise Shoppers Drug Mart.

A world-renowned philanthropist, Murray Koffler’s donations and commitments have helped fund the creation of the Koffler Centre of the Arts, the Koffler Institute of Pharmacy Management, the Canadian Council for Native Business, and the Council on Drug Abuse. He has also held positions on numerous boards and organizations. His tireless efforts and achievements have been recognized with many awards including becoming a member of the Order of Canada in 1977.

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Murray Koffler with his Aunt Anne, outside of Koffler's Drug Store, located at 376 College Street in Toronto.

Name Access

Anne

Koffler, Murray, 1924-2017

Koffler's Drug Store

Subjects

Drugstores

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

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1284

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1977

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

Wellts delicatessen was founded by Peter and Fannie Wellts in the 1910s at 350 College Street. Peter Wellts was born in Tarnigrad, Poland in 1888 and Fannie Brown was born in New York City in 1889. They met in New York and moved with Fannie’s family to Toronto in 1910. Peter worked in the garment district prior at the start of the restaurant business. Fannie’s father David Brown had come earlier from New York to work for Eaton’s in the men’s clothing business. The rest of the Brown family, Fannie’s parents and siblings eventually returned to New York. Peter and Fannie married in Toronto on November 26, 1910. They had two daughters Sylvia (August 26, 1911) (m. Walfish) and Ethel (dob January 7, 1928) (m. Rochwerg). They lived in an apartment above the delicatessen. When Ethel married her husband Nathan Rochwerg in 1948, they moved in with Fannie and Peter above the deli. Ethel and Nathan had three children Martin, Arlene (m. Kochberg), and Sidney. When Peter was in his 70s, it was decided that the family would move north into the Bathurst Manor and close the deli. Peter had a heart attack on December 26, 1959, before the move, and Fannie moved in with Nathan and Ethel and their three children. The deli closed in 1959. The deli was known for 5 cent pastrami/corned beef sandwiches sold during the depression. Peter Wellts never let anyone go hungry during this period. They had Vernor's ginger ale on tap during a time when everything was in bottles. Deliveries would come in through the backyard by the garage. It was kosher. Ethel remembers people coming in to use the phone in the kitchen or the washroom in the basement.

Subjects

Delicatessens

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Brunswick Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1285

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1977

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

Wellts delicatessen was founded by Peter and Fannie Wellts in the 1910s at 350 College Street. Peter Wellts was born in Tarnigrad, Poland in 1888 and Fannie Brown was born in New York City in 1889. They met in New York and moved with Fannie’s family to Toronto in 1910. Peter worked in the garment district prior at the start of the restaurant business. Fannie’s father David Brown had come earlier from New York to work for Eaton’s in the men’s clothing business. The rest of the Brown family, Fannie’s parents and siblings eventually returned to New York. Peter and Fannie married in Toronto on November 26, 1910. They had two daughters Sylvia (August 26, 1911) (m. Walfish) and Ethel (dob January 7, 1928) (m. Rochwerg). They lived in an apartment above the delicatessen. When Ethel married her husband Nathan Rochwerg in 1948, they moved in with Fannie and Peter above the deli. Ethel and Nathan had three children Martin, Arlene (m. Kochberg), and Sidney. When Peter was in his 70s, it was decided that the family would move north into the Bathurst Manor and close the deli. Peter had a heart attack on December 26, 1959, before the move, and Fannie moved in with Nathan and Ethel and their three children. The deli closed in 1959. The deli was known for 5 cent pastrami/corned beef sandwiches sold during the depression. Peter Wellts never let anyone go hungry during this period. They had Vernor's ginger ale on tap during a time when everything was in bottles. Deliveries would come in through the backyard by the garage. It was kosher. Ethel remembers people coming in to use the phone in the kitchen or the washroom in the basement.

Subjects

Delicatessens

Repro Restriction

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

Places

Brunswick Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

College Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions