- Accession Number
- 1997-11-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1997-11-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1925]-1986
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one black-and-white photograph taken of a group of campers at Camp Kindervelt in Rouge Hill. Identified in the photograph is Rae Watson (standing at the far left).
- Also included were several newspaper clippings from 1976–1986, which have been integrated into the clipping files.
- Administrative History
- Camp Kindervelt was a Labour Zionist League camp in Rough Hill, in the east end of Toronto in the Rouge Valley.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Labor Zionism
- Name Access
- Camp Kindervelt
- Shiner, Sol
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-10-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1992-10-1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of three copy photographs. Two of these photographs are of Camp Kindervelt in Rouge Hills, north of Ontario; the other photograph is of Branch 3, Labor League, Toronto.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Places
- Ontario
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1993-6-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1993-6-6
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 14 x 9 cm and 13 x 10 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1943]
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of one photographic postcard and one negative of a group of girls at Camp Yungvelt in Pickering. Some of the girls have been identified as follows: Terry Krever is in front row on far left; Miss Simon (M. Shainhouse) is next to her in center; Miss Naomi Strauss is in the far left-hand corner; Mrs. Danilak is in back row, second from right; and "Creed" is in back row, far right.
- Subjects
- Children
- Camps
- Name Access
- Krever, Terry
- Strauss, Naomi
- Danilak, Mrs.
- Camp Yungvelt
- Places
- Pickering, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1997-4-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1997-4-2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 50 photographs : b&w and col. (24 negatives)
- Date
- 1916-1988
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs and newspaper clippings documenting the life of the Levine Family. Photographs include class pictures from Port Whitby's Brock School, Purim celebrations at Oshawa's Beth Zion Synagogue, Camp Ogama staff and camper photos, Camp Winnibagoe cabin photos and Royal Winter Fair prize winning photos.
- 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
- Camp counselors
- Camps
- Farms
- Farm tractors
- Purim
- Name Access
- Camp Winnebagoe
- Places
- Oshawa (Ont.)
- Whitby (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2003-10-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2003-10-4
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 videocassette : b&w, si., VHS
- Date
- 1943
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one VHS videocassette copy of an 8mm silent film that was taken by Hy Rossman of campers at Camp Tamarack in 1943. The film includes scenes of the boys engaged in activities at camp as well as "mess hall" gatherings, training sessions and drills
- Administrative History
- Hy Rossman was the father of one of the campers. The donor, Dr. Martin Wolfish, was a friend of his son and was a camper in 1943 as well.
- Descriptive Notes
- A clip of the film can be viewed at: //www.youtube.com/embed/eFGNoca4vkw
- Subjects
- Camps
- Children
- Name Access
- Camp Tamarack
- Rossman, Hy
- Places
- Bracebridge, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1980-2-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1980-2-2
- Material Format
- text
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 15 cm of textual records and other material
- Date
- 1935-1962
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the Workmen's Circle (Arbeiter Ring). Included are: three architectural drawings of the summer cottage for Camp Yunvelt (Pickering, Ont.); two group portraits (one with identification and one without); a bound periodical/journal from 1935; a hardcopy of Fertsik yor arbeter-ring: a geshikhte in bilder (English: Forty Years Workmen's Circle: A History in Pictures) put out by the National Executive Committee of the Workmen's Circle in 1940; a bound periodical/journal of Kultur un dertsiung (English: Culture and Education) for the year 1942; a bound periodical/journal of Der freynd (English: The Friend) for the year 1942; a booklet by Rev. Nathan Stolnitz's titled Some of the Numerous Comments and Reviews on Music in Jewish Life (1957?); a newspaper clipping titled "A bukh vom oyngt" (English: A Book That Opens) that was published in 1957; a hardcopy of Workmen's Circle, Pioneers and Builders put out by the Workmen's Circle Pioneers and Builders Committee in 1962; and two other Yiddish-language publications that have not been identified.
- Administrative History
- The Workmen's Circle (Yiddish: Arbeiter Ring) was founded in the United States by Jewish immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Circle branches were established in Canada in Montreal and Toronto in 1907 and 1908. In 1917, the Toronto branches incorporated as nonprofit organization called the Arbeiter Ring. The organization celebrated its centenery in 2017.
- Descriptive Notes
- Language: Most of the material in the accession is in Yiddish. The drawings are in English and a few of the publications are in English and Yiddish.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Cottages
- Nonprofit organizations
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Pickering (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-37
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-37
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 36 photographs : b&w and hand col. (12 negatives) ; 13 x 18 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1938-1943
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs taken at Camp Balfour Manor on Morrison Lake in Muskoka, Ontario and Camp Yungvelt in Pickering, Ontario. Scenes include a group of young people on the steps of a building, a Shabbat service, a flag lowering ceremony, boxing lessons, an arts and crafts class, and a photograph of Hyman Riegelhaupt at Camp Yungvelt.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Name Access
- Balfour Manor Camp
- Camp Yungvelt
- Places
- Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)
- Pickering (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-4-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-4-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 18 photographs : b&w (9 negatives)
- 1 film reel
- Date
- 1959-1965
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs documenting the Workmen's Circle (Arbeiter Ring) Peretz School and Camp Yungvelt. Also included is a film reel of activities at Camp Yungvelt from 1959.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Schools
- Name Access
- Camp Yungvelt
- Matenko, Isaac, 1874-1960
- Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Ontario
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-6-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-6-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1946-1948
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of the Wabi-kronicle, the newsletter for Camp Wabi-Kon, a Jewish camp in Northern Ontario near Temagami.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Children
- Name Access
- Camp Wabi-Kon
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-9
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 6 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm or smaller
- Date
- August 1947
- Scope and Content
- Accession contains a photo album with six photos of Camp Tamarack, some of which have been identified. Included are photos of Duck Lake, Morty Weisberg, Sonny Moshenberg and a boy counting beans (believed to be Lionel Solrush). A numbered guide of all the photos is included.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Name Access
- Camp Tamarack
- Kirshin, Barry
- Weisberg, Morty
- Moshenberg, Sonny
- Solrush, Lionel
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 90 cm of textual records
- 1000 photographs [approx.]
- Date
- 1919-2007
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of textual and graphic records documenting the programs and activities of Canadian Young Judaea. The records include newsletters and publications, photographs, anniversary books, and program books. There are also two compact discs containing scanned copies of the photographs from this accession.
- Custodial History
- These records were gathered together for an anniversary celebration held in November 2007. Most of the records were found in the basement of the office building on Marlee Avenue, before being donated to the archives.
- Administrative History
- Canadian Young Judaea was founded in 1909 as a Zionist movement for Canadian youth by members of the Herzl Zion Club. As a Zionist organization, Young Judaea continues to be committed to fostering a sense of Jewish identity and values in today's Jewish youth and to encouraging a lifelong commitment to Israel.
- In order to foster a closer connection to Israel, Canadian Young Judaea employs educational Shlichim from Israel who are posted at various Jewish communities throughout Canada and offices at the national level. In Toronto, Young Judaea also operates several Zionist summer camps located in each region of Canada, and a summer leadership institute called Camp Biluim in Quebec. In addition to the social programme of the organization, Young Judaea also offers educational seminars and conferences.
- Young Judaea's national structure includes a National Executive Board and an Administrative Council. Conventions are held regularly, as are regional conferences. In the past, Young Judaea operated as an associated, but distinct, organization from the Zionist Organization of Canada. However, Young Judaea operations were overseen by the ZOC executive, and Young Judaea received their budget from the ZOC Treasury. In addition, ZOC and Young Judaea worked in conjunction with one another on many projects and programmes, such as with the operation of the Zionist camps. They were therefore dependent on ZOC.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Youth
- Zionism
- Name Access
- Canadian Young Judaea
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-11-8
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2008-11-8
- Material Format
- graphic material
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs : b&w ; 34 x 15 cm or smaller + identification key
- 55 photographs : b&w (jpgs) ; 300 dpi
- Date
- 1934-1975
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of photographs documenting the Moscoe family, Camp B'nai Brith near Ottawa, and the Kirkland Lake Jewish community. Also included are a few photographs taken at the amalgamation of Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue in 1975. The amalgamation photographs include: Syd Moscoe, Stuart Moscoe, Harry R. Moscoe, Irving Horowitz, Cantor David Bercovici, Cantor Louis Danto, and Rabbi Joseph Kelman.
- Custodial History
- The photographs were loaned to the Archives for copying. The donor has the original records.
- 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
- Camps
- Communities
- Families
- Places
- Kirkland Lake (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-11-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-11-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- object
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm and 9 X7 cm
- 1 matchbook
- Date
- 1928-2009
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of mementos, family documents and clippings from Nancy Draper (née Frankel). The records include a birth announcement card for Nancy in 1928 and a matchbook party favour from her wedding to Darrell Draper in 1949. There is also a scholarship application letter from the donor's granddaughter, Haley Draper, to UJA. Other records include a staff list from Camp Wabi-Kon in 1946; a Globe and Mail obituary of Dr. Martin Wolfish, a past volunteer of OJA; a photograph of David Steinhauer; a clipping about an Inuit sculpture inspired by the experience of Holocaust survivor Leon Kahn; and three eulogies for Patricia Drevnig Goldstein (1940-2005) (née Jacobs). Patricia was the granddaughter of Rabbi Solomon Jacobs of Holy Blossom, and her mother, Edna, was a Frankel. Finally, the accession includes a photocopy of a photograph of members of the Siglen family of Meaford with Maurice Frankel, the great-uncle of the donor, and Irwin Rosen, ca. 1928.
- Administrative History
- Nancy Frankel (b. 1928) is the daughter of Carl and Dorothy Jacobs Frankel, past prominent members of the Toronto Jewish community and members of Holy Blossom Temple. Nancy attended Camp Wabi-Kon, a Jewish camp in northern Ontario near Temagami, and then worked there as a teenager. She married Darrell Draper on December 10th, 1949. Nancy is a longtime volunteer at the OJA.
- Subjects
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Camps
- Families
- Letters
- Obituaries
- Name Access
- Draper, Nancy
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1321
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1321
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1917]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This is item is a copy photograph and corresponding negative of the Sky family of Elk Lake, Ontario. The photo was taken at Camp Custard (Custer?) in the United States. Pictured are:
- Left to right: Sol Sky, Barney Sky, Fanny Sky.
- Name Access
- Camp Custard
- Camp Custer
- Sky, Barney
- Sky family
- Sky, Fanny
- Sky, Sol
- Subjects
- Camps
- Families
- 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
- United States
- Accession Number
- 1977-6-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Name
- Marvin Mandell
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 3 Jul. 2003
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Marvin Mandell
- Number
- OH 277
- Subject
- Boy Scouts
- Camps
- Interview Date
- 3 Jul. 2003
- Quantity
- 1 cassette (1 copy)
- 1 WAV file
- Interviewer
- Martin Wolfish
- Total Running Time
- 13 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied to cassette in August 2003
- Digitized in February 2015
- Notes
- The interview ends at 12:59 but Martin continued to converse with Marvin after the formal Q/A.
- Biography
- Marvin Mandell was a member of the Cubs and Scouts at John R. Wilcox School and became a camper at Camp Tamarack in Bainbridge, Ontario in 1951.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Geographic Access
- Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- Side 1
00:32: Marvin discusses his involvement with 59E Troop of Cubs and Scouts at John R. Wilcox. While in Cubs, he attended Camp Tamarack. First attended camp in 1951.
1:31: Marvin reminisces about staff and campers.
3:30: Marvin recalls camp experiences including canoe trips, activities, special events, camp fires, etc.
4:49: Martin Wolfish comments that Wayne and Shuster had worked at Camp Tamarack earlier.
6:08: The lake was called “Duck Lake” during that period. Was later formally changed to “Lake of the Summer Sun.”
6:28: Marvin briefly discusses Mr. Edgar Reason, the head of Camp Tamarack.
7:35: Marvin and Martin discuss the Jewish content of the camp.
8:00: Marvin recalls the camp food.
10:10: Marvin recalls an old army truck used to bring food to campers on canoe trips.
11:28: Marvin and Martin recall the camp layout and daily schedule.
The interview ends at 12:59, but Martin continued to converse with Marvin after the formal Q/A. Martin mentions that Marvin recalled more names, told an anecdote about Mr. Reason’s “Paddle,” and that Marvin may have a Cub sweater to add to the collection.
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Charna Galper
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 15 Aug. 2018
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Charna Galper
- Number
- OH 448
- Subject
- Immigrants--Canada
- Synagogues
- Camps
- Musicians
- Yiddish language
- Yiddish literature
- Interview Date
- 15 Aug. 2018
- Quantity
- 1 MP4 file
- Interviewer
- Naomi Raichyk
- Total Running Time
- 1:42 minutes
- Biography
- Charna Galper was born in 1921 in Bershet, Ukraine and immigrated with her family to Toronto in 1923. Charna grew up and lived in the Kensington Market area until 1955, when she moved north of the downtown core. Charna attended Landsdowne Public School and Harbord Collegiate, where she graduated as a legal secretary. She was a member of Hashomer Haztair and attended its summer camp at the Stroud, Ontario location. Charna married Abe Galper in 1947. Abe's career as a musician allowed them to travel to New York, Israel, and China. Charna has volunteered for Circle of Care and today spends her time pursuing her interest in Yiddish and attending programs at the Baycrest Centre.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Geographic Access
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Transcript
- 0:40: Charna born in 1921 in Bershet, Urkaine, tells the story of how she her parents and siblings fled Ukraine for Canada. Sponsored by Joe and Philip Finkler her mother’s brothers, the family arrived in Toronto in 1923.
3:24: Charna describes the living conditions of the family’s first home at 237 Beverley St., Fitzroy Terrace in the Kensington area and Grange Ave.
4:55: Charna talks about her elder sister’s contracting diphtheria and the resulting quarantine her family had to endure
5:2: Charna talks her parents first home at 210 Robert St. and the family’s move to Albany Ave.
6:15: Charna describes in detail the family’s living conditions prior to their move to 210 Robert St.
7:15: Charna talks about some of the challenges her parents faced when they first came to Toronto. She describes the hardships her father endured working as a carpenter during the depression
9:40: Charna talks about Joe and Philip Finkler as instrumental in helping her parents buy the house on Robert St. in 1926, the year her brother Shloime was born
10:00: Charna recalls some memories of the Robert St neighborhood, a closely knit Jewish immigrant community with Yiddish spoken as the primary language and her experiences at the Landsdowne Public school
11:40: Charna recalls her grandmother as being a wonderful davener
13:00: Charna talks about the details of the Robert St. house mortgage
14:1: Charna talks about her first job working for Harry Grainer as a legal secretary and later with Lou Rasminsky, the first Jewish governor of the Bank of Canada.
15:33: Charna recalls the area around Rasminsky’s storefront at 418 Spadina Ave. Spadina was filled with many businesses, egg stores, Hyman’s bookstore and Goodmans on the corner of Oxford, “we all knew each other, it was a leibedik velt.
16:00: Charna talks in more detail about her job as a legal secretary for Lou Rasminsky
18.45: Charna describes her daily walk to Harbord Collegiate
19:30: Charna talks about not having enough money for carfare and riding the bus for free
20:33: Charna talks about her best friend Rose Ruskin
21:35: Charna talks about how as a child she was spoiled by her older sisters Nechama and Ethel
22:04: Charna talks about helping with the household chores
22:15: Charna describes family laundry day on Sunday. We had laundry tubs in the backyard, my sisters and I had scrubbing boards and my mother was good at wringing, it was a team effort
22:46: Charna talks about the Kosoys who owned a home laundry at Borden and Harbord St. They had what was called wet wash, they would bring the clean laundry back to us wet and we would hang it to dry.
23:27: Charna talks about getting their first refrigerator
23:41: Charna describes their first refrigerator
24:01: Charna describes their icebox and Katz the iceman who came once a week to deliver ice
24:44: Charna talks about buying groceries on credit
25:37: Charna talks about why her parents wanted her to go to school rather than working in a factory
25:50: Charna talks about helping with the shopping in Kensington market
26:05: Charna talks about going to Kensington market on Thursday morning to buy a big carp, bring it home, put it in the tub until Friday morning when her grandmother would kill it and turn it into gefilte fish
27:33: Charna describes her own gefilte fish recipe
28:35: Charna recalls going to the market on Friday to buy a live chicken for Shabbat and taking it to the Schoichet on Major St. to be killed and plucked
29:03: Charna describes how to hold a live chicken
29:23: Charna describes bargaining for goods in the market
30:41: Charna recalls the pickled crabapple treats from a delicatessen located at Dundas in Kensington Market
32:04: Charna recalls Tryman’s family run grocery store on Baldwin St., Little Eaton’s on Kensington that sold Eaton’s castoffs, Hyman’s bookstore on Spadina Ave that sold office supplies, religious books and had a registry for bar-mitzvahs and weddings.
34:45: Charna describes her brother Shloime’s bar-mitzvah held at their Robert St. home and catered by her grandmother
35:42: Charna recalls about the days when her grandmother was a caterer in Russia and also in Toronto
37:12: Charna describes her grandmother’s cooking
37:49: Charna talks about her grandmother as a very orthodox woman who wore both a sheitel and kerchief
38.22: Charna talks about the family’s traditional observance of Shabbos and Jewish holidays, the Russian Shul on Centre St, and her grandmother’s cooking for Rosh Hashanah
40:36: Charna talks about the Russian Shul’s move to Markham St. and describes its interior
42:39: Charna talks about Joe and Philip Finkler’s connection with the Kiever Shul
43:42: Charna talks about her grandmother’s passing in 1939
44:04: Charna talks about her sisters Elsie and Nechama
45:35: Charna talks about her surprise birthday party in celebration of her 95th year
46:08: Charna talks about her sister Nechama’s move to Palestine
46:34: Charna talks about her father in-law’s move to Palestine in 1930
47:30: Charna talks about her involvement with Hashomer Hatzair
49:24: Charna talks about Hashomer Hatzair’s summer camp locations in Keswick, Stroud, Parry Sound, and Lake Ooty in Perth, Ontario
50:25: Charna describes her camp experience at the Stroud location
52:05: Charna talks about accompanying her husband Abe, a clarinet teacher to camp Hashomer Hatzair in Perth, Ontario
52:59: Charna talks about her past and present affiliation with schlichim coming to Toronto
53:45: Charna talks about her affiliation with Pioneer Women, now known as Na’amat
54:32: Charna tells the story of how she met her husband Abe in 1947
57:18: Charna describes her first date with Abe
57:43: Charna talks about walking with Abe to the Tivoli theatre at Victoria and Shuter. “Who used cars, who used streetcars, we walked. On the way back I got the most terrible blisters, I was with new shoes, with high heels.”
58:26: Charna continues to describe her first date with Abe
59:01: Charna describes the inside of the Tivoli theatre
59:49: Charna talks about City Dairy where she and Abe went for ice cream on their first date. City Dairy was located at Spadina Crescent near College St.
1:00:36: Charna explains why she and Abe decided to get their marriage license in May 1948
1:02:08: Charna talks about the attraction she and Abe had for one another
1:02:42: Charna talks about her wedding held in the family’s backyard at Albany Ave. in August of 1948
1:04:47: Charna describes her wedding cake and how she preserved it in a tin box until her 25th wedding anniversary
1:06:04 Charna talks about her first apartment with Abe at College and Crawford
1:06:52: Charna talks the period following her marriage and her mother’s stroke
1:07:45: Charrna talks about her first pregnancy and birth of Batsheva in November 1949
1:07:54: Charna talks about moving into her parent’s home on Albany St.
1:09:25: Charna talks about thinking of buying their own home
1:10:16 Charna talks about why they waited a year before moving into their own home. She explains everything she needed was close by the house on Albany, including Starkman’s and Honest Ed’s.
1:11:28: Charna describes their first house as it looked when they moved in 1955
1:12:14: Charna talks about the shifting demographics of the neighborhood from primarily Gentile to Jewish
1:12:40: Charna talks about the neighborhood Daysbury public school her children attended
1:12:55: Charna talks about how life became easier for them when Abe’s work with the symphony increased from 26 weeks to 42 weeks a season
1:13:34: Charna talks about the death of her mother before the move to their own home and her father who moved in with them
1:13:50: Charna talks about Abe’s music students and his work with the Conservatory
1:14:26: Charna talks about her 2 youngest children attending the Bialik School
1:14:59: Charna gives the ages of her 5 children, Batsheva 69 years old, Chaya 68 years old, Devora 64 years old, Penina 56 years old, and Yanke 55 years old1:16:03
1:14:60: Break in interview as Charna speaks with her daughter Devora
1:17:40: Charna talks about Abe’s relationship with her parents
1:18:07: Charna talks about Abe’s career as a musician
1:19:02: Charna talks about Abe playing for the Israel Philharmonic in 1962 and their thoughts about making Aliyah
1:19:39: Charna talks about their return from Israel to Toronto, his work with the conservatory and some of his music students
1:20:36: Charna talks about Abe’s medical condition
1:20:51: Charna talks about how she and Abe worked as a team
1:21:11: Charna talks about accompanying Abe to New York when he played with the New York Philharmonic
1:22:08: Charna talks about Abe’s work following his heart attack
1:22:22: Charna talks about Abe giving a master class in Israel for Israeli clarinetists
1:24:00: Charna talks about Abe’s experience playing with the Palestine Symphony
1:26:25: Charna talks about how she came to know famous people such as Frank Shuster, John (Louie) Wayne, Sylvia and Ben Lennick, and pianist Leo Barkin
1:29:14: Charna talks about musicians from Israel who moved to Toronto
1:31:08: Break in conversation as Charna gets up from her chair
1:31:57: Charna talks about her children being what is most important to her
1:32:41: Charna talks about her son Jacob’s 25th wedding anniversary
1:33:15: Charna talks about her current interest in Yiddish, going to the Baycrest program and meeting interesting people
1:36:13: Charna talks accompanying Abe to China during a 3 week master class program
1:40:17: Charna talks about the evening’s upcoming anniversary party and invited guests
1:42:00: Charna talks about her service volunteering for Circle of Care and the Jewish elderly
1:42:33: Charna talks about learning to drive her first car, a blue and white chevy with wings
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Part Of
- Mimi Wise fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 16; Item 5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Mimi Wise fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 16
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of a group of campers at Camp Winnebagoe, taken during the summer of 1946. Mimi Wise was one of the counselors at the camp and is pictured on the far left. The other counselor pictured is Miss. [?] Dicker.
- 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.
- Accession Number
- 2003-6-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Brown fonds
- Jewish community building plans and drawings series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 49
- Series
- 1
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- architectural drawing
- Date
- 1940
- Physical Description
- 12 architectural drawings : pencil on tracing paper ; 48 cm length or smaller and 7 cm diam.
- Admin History/Bio
- Founded in the 1920s, Camp Yungvelt was originally situated on Lake Wilcox. Two years later it moved to Pickering, where it operated until it closed in the 1950s. It was established by the Workmen's Circle, as a Yiddish summer camp for Jewish children. Camp Yungvelt was known for accepting the children of poor immigrants for a small fraction of the regular fee.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of architectural drawings of several new buildings that were erected at Camp Yungvelt. Floor plans, a foundation plan, and several elevation drawings are included.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Pickering (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Vanek fonds
- Personal records series
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 1
- Series
- 1
- File
- 9
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1928
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Ida Olidart was a second cousin of Vanek's mother. She was a member of the Winer family of Buffalo, New York and was married to Ben Olidart, who was a physician.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a photograph of Ida Olidart in front of a sign at "Cedarholm Camp Athletic and Picnic Grounds", which was located on Lake Wilcox.
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- Toronto Section series
- Toronto Section archival material sub-series
- Camp Camperdown file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 38
- Series
- 7-13
- File
- 23
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1934?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a black-and-white photograph of Camp Campdown. Written on the back of the photograph is the following: "Camp Camperdown opened July 1934." It's possible, therefore, the photo was taken after 1934.
- Notes
- Availability of other formats: Also available as a TIF file.
- Name Access
- Camp Camperdown
- Subjects
- Camps
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Orillia (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- Toronto Section series
- Toronto Section archival material sub-series
- Camp Camperdown file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 38
- Series
- 7-13
- File
- 23
- Item
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Jul. 1940
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a black-and-white photograph of Camp Campdown.
- Notes
- Availability of other formats: Also available as a TIF file.
- Name Access
- Camp Camperdown
- 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
- Orillia (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- Toronto Section series
- Toronto Section archival material sub-series
- Camp Camperdown file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 38
- Series
- 7-13
- File
- 23
- Item
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Jul. 1941
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a black-and-white photograph of Camp Campdown.
- Notes
- Availability of other formats: Also available as a TIF file.
- Name Access
- Camp Camperdown
- 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
- Orillia (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2009-12-19
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-12-19
- Material Format
- textual record
- object
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual record
- 2 pennants
- Date
- 1943-1948
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 1945 and 1946 campers' banners for Camp Tamarack, camp newsletters from 1945 and 1950, three souvenir programmes, a song sheet, a camp songbook and The Cub Book handbook published in 1943. The programs come from the dedication of the dining and recreation hall at Camp Tamarack in 1948, a Camp Tamarack Dedication Day (n.d.), and the silver anniversary celebration of the 59th Boy Scout Groups in 1946 at Shaarei Shomayim.
- Subjects
- Boy Scouts
- Camps
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-11-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-11-7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 13 May 1967
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one annual concert programme booklet for the Workmen's Circle Peretz School and Camp Yungvelt.
- Descriptive Notes
- Language note: Yiddish and English langauge programme.
- Subjects
- Concerts
- Camps
- Schools
- Name Access
- Workmen's Circle (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-9-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-9-2
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 film reel (ca. 5 min.) : col., si. ; super 8 mm
- Date
- 1983
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one film reel documenting the Slavens family at Camp Wahanowin and at a family farm owned by Eric's parents in Dundalk, Ontario.
- Use Conditions
- None
- Subjects
- Amateur films
- Camps
- Farms
- Name Access
- Camp Wahanowin
- Slavens (family)
- Places
- Dundalk (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-9-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-9-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 10 cm or smaller
- Date
- [ca. 1952]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of photographs documenting the Rosenthal family's activities in the Sudbury Jewish community and at Camp Biluim. Included is a copy photo of a Hanukkah celebration and an original photo of an unidentified celebration at the Cedar Street shul in Sudbury. Also included is a photograph of Rosenthal family members relaxing on a beach at the original Camp Biluim at Clear Lake.
- Custodial History
- Photographs were donated by Lilian Rosenthal.
- Subjects
- Hanukkah
- Camps
- Families
- Outdoor recreation
- Synagogues
- Name Access
- Camp Biluim
- Rosenthal family
- Places
- Sudbury, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-5-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-5-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 4 photograph albums
- ca. 450 photographs : b&w and col. (ca. 260 negatives) ; 36 x 30 cm and smaller
- 3 cm of textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1963]-[ca. 1995]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of graphic material and textual records documenting Canadian Young Judaea. Included are photographic albums, loose photographs, clippings, photographic contact sheets and negatives, and textual records, including meeting minutes, correspondences, etc. All of the items relate to Ontario-based Jewish summer camps such as Camp Solelim and Camp Biluim, as well as to Canadian Young Judaea.
- Custodial History
- Records came via Josefa Michaelson, c/o Canadian Young Judaea
- Subjects
- Nonprofit organizations
- Children
- Camps
- Name Access
- Canadian Young Judaea
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-15
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-8-15
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- ca. 20 cm textual records
- 3 photographs
- Date
- 1948-2007
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of documents and photographs related to Young Judaea programs. Photographs are group pictures from Camp Shalom and Camp Biluim. Among the documents are meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence, songbooks, scripts, flyers, and guides for counsellors and group leaders. Also included are issues of Hebrew newsletters Daf Hat'Nua and Bat'Nua.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Youth
- Zionism
- Name Access
- Canadian Young Judaea
- Camp Shalom
- Camp Biluim
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-10-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-10-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 40 cm textual records
- ca. 50 photographs
- Date
- 1940-2012
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records of Canadian Young Judaea. Records include correspondence, camp committee meeting minutes, camp committee and staff lists, the CYJ constitution, organizational newsletters, donation lists, flyers and camp reunion ephemera. Records also include clippings and reproductions from the Zionist Archives, and Camp Solelim photographs, as well as publications from other Jewish organizations.
- Administrative History
- Canadian Young Judaea was founded in 1909 as a Zionist movement for Canadian youth by members of the Herzl Zion Club. As a Zionist organization, Young Judaea continues to be committed to fostering a sense of Jewish identity and values in today's Jewish youth and to encouraging a lifelong commitment to Israel.
In order to foster a closer connection to Israel, Canadian Young Judaea employs educational Shlichim from Israel who are posted to various Jewish communities throughout Canada and to offices at the national level in Toronto Young Judaea also operates several Zionist summer camps located in each region of Canada, and a summer leadership institute called Camp Biluim in Quebec. In addition to the social programme of the organization, Young Judaea also offers educational seminars and conferences.
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Access restriction note: Files contain personal information of donors, campers, committee members and applicants for subsidies.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Youth
- Zionism
- Name Access
- Canadian Young Judaea
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-6-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-6-6
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 17 photographs : b&w (tiffs)
- Date
- 1958-1970
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 17 scanned photographs from Joe Solomon's time as a camper and tripper at Camp Timberlane, an overnight camp founded in 1957 by Barry and Philomena Lowes on Lake of Two Islands in the Haliburton Highlands. Since it's founding, Camp Timberlane has catered to Jewish campers from Toronto. There is a finding aid in the folder with the scanned photos.
- Administrative History
- Joseph Nathan Solomon was born on September 4, 1944 to Myer and Sarah (nee Grafstein) Solomon. He is their middle son. He has two brothers David (deceased 2013) and Robert. Solomon attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, University of Toronto for his Bachelors and Osgoode Law School. A highlight of Solomon's life is being a tripper at Camp Timberlane for over 15 years. Solomon practiced law with his father Myer Solomon for the firm Solomon & Solomon and independendly following Myer's retirement and death in the late 1980s. Solomon married Maureen (nee Kokotow) Solomon from Kirkland Lake, ON in 1968. They have two daughters Alida Solomon and Dara Solomon, who started serving as the director of the Ontario Jewish Archives in 2012. Alida Solomon is a chef and restaurant owner.
- Subjects
- Children
- Camps
- Name Access
- Solomon, Joseph, 1944-
- Camp Timberlane
- Places
- Haliburton, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-8-7
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-8-7
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- ca. 70 cm of textual records and other material
- Date
- 1928-2013
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the activities of Ben Zion Shapiro and his family. The bulk of the records document the Shapiro family's involvement in Young Judaea. The Young Judaea material includes: yearbooks, photographs, correspondence, meeting minutes, event programmes, song books, newsletters, and two Camp Biluim flags made by Bunny Shapiro. One flag contains Camp Biluim's crest (1951) and the other one was created for Camp Biluim's colour war and contains the text "We will try and we will succeed Camp Biluim" (1954?). Also included is a VHS tape containing a copy of the Toronto Zionist Council's video about Camp Shalom (1991?). Of note are minute books maintained by Roy Shapiro for the Toronto Young Judaea Administrative Board (1928-1934) and for the Leadership Club (1940-1948).
- Accession also contains material relating to Roy and Ben Zion's involvement with the following organizations: the Coordinated Services to the Jewish Elderly (Circle of Care), B'nai Israel Beth David Congregation, Beth Tzedec's Mispacha Program, Beth Tzedec's Israel Action Program, Congregation Beth Haminyan, and Holy Blossom Temple's Department for Jewish Living. These records include, minutes, correspondence, newsletters and publications, evaluation reports and other reports. Also included is a demographic report entitied "Rapid Growth and Transformation: Demographic Challenges Facing the Jewish Community of Greater Toronto" (1995), material from a conference at the University of Toronto on the university's partnership with Israel, CHAT alumni directories, and a CHAT book entitled, "Voices: Jewish Teens of the 90's". Of note are buttons, photographs, reports and correspondence documenting Bunny and Ben Zion's trip to the Soviet Union on behalf of the CJC's Committee for Soviet Jewry.
- Finally accession includes material documenting family activities of the Shapiro and Sherman family. Included is a transcript of Bessie Sherman telling her life story (1978), haggadot, PowerPoint presentations created by Ben Zion for his grandchildren and for a family reunion outlining the family history of his family and Bunny's family. There is also a video of Ben Zion presenting his PowerPoint at the Michalski / Cohen family reunion. Also included are family films and videos containing footage of Bunny and Ben Zion's wedding and honeymoon, Camp Biluim, Young Judaea events, Bunny on Machon, family wedding anniversaries and birthday parties, trips to Israel, the United States, and Europe as well as footage of the Cousin's Club. Also included is a VHS tape containing a recorded segment from CityPulse News featuring the family's Pesach festivities in 1995.
- Photo identification: Back row, left to right: Ray Markus, Michelle Landsberg, Menachem ?, Frank Narrol. Front row, left to right: Gilda Mitchell, Bunny Shapiro, BenZion Shapiro, Malka Rabinowitz.
- Administrative History
- Ben Zion Shapiro was born in Toronto in 1931 to Roy Shapiro and Beck Shapiro (née Cohen). He has a younger brother, Morden "Mort" Shapiro (b. 1940). His father worked as an office manager at Rotstein Furniture and Maple Leaf Cleaners, and his mother worked as a legal secretary until marriage. Roy was active in a number of organizations including: Young Judaea, Sons of Jacob Society, Toronto Camera Club, a founding member of Beth David Synagogue, Coordinated Services to the Jewish Elderly (Circle of Care) and president of the Association of Jewish Seniors. Beck was active in Young Judaea and Pioneer Women (president of the Golda Meir Club).
- Ben Zion received a master of social work degree from the University of Toronto and attended the Jewish Agency Institute for Youth Leaders from Abroad in Jerusalem (1951-1952). He has worked for a number of organizations throughout his career, including: Young Judaea (he was director of both Camp Shalom [1962-1969] and Camp Biluim [1954-1956]), B'nai Brith Youth Organization, University Settlement, St. Christopher's House and director of the Novomeysky Centre in Jerusalem (1957-1961). He was also professor and associate dean of social work at the University of Toronto and three times visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
- Ben married Bunny "Bernice" Shaprio in 1955. Bunny was born in 1934 in Noranda, Quebec to Irving Sherman and Bessie (née Consky). Bunny attended public school in Noranda, Noranda High School and Forest Hill Collegiate in Toronto, University of Toronto (BA), the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (M.Ed. in special education), and the Jewish Agency Institute for Jewish Leaders from Abroad (1952-1953).
- Bunny graduated from the first Camp Biluim Institute for leadership training in 1951 and worked with Ben Zion at Camp Shalom as Camp Mother in 1962 and from 1964-1969. She also worked at Camp Biluim from 1955-1956. In 1983, Bunny and Ben Zion went to the Soviet Union to visit refuseniks on behalf of the Soviet Jewry Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region.
- Bunny and Ben have two children: Ayala and Ilan. Since Ben Zion's retirement in 1996, he and Bunny have been living in Jerusalem for half of each year. In 2015, they moved full-time to Jerusalem.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Descriptive Notes
- Physical description note: includes ca. 300 photographs (256 tiff), 2 PowerPoint presentations, 1 textual record (doc), 4 buttons, 2 flags, 5 VHS tapes, and 18 film reels (8 mm).
- Subjects
- Camps
- Youth
- Zionism
- Name Access
- Shapiro, Ben Zion, 1931-
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-10-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-10-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2 folders of textual records
- Date
- 1948-1951
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of counter cheques, cancelled cheques, Statements of Account, deposit slips, promissory notes (1948-1950), a 1948 realty tax bill, an invoice from E. Hoffman Machinery Supply and letter of assignment of lien. Also included is a 1951 Camp Kvutza season price fees, a letter to parents, and a promotional pamphlet.
- Administrative History
- Camp Kvutza was a summer camp for children and adults and was promoted as the summer home of the Labour Zionist Movement. It was situated in Lowbanks, Ontario on the shores of Lake Erie. The children's program (ages 7-16) included swimming, baseball, basketball, ping-pong, arts and crafts, sabbath programs, Hebrew and Yiddish instruction, and Israeli songs and dances. The donor's father was associated with the camp.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Labor Zionism
- Name Access
- Camp Kvutza (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-5-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-5-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 90 photographs : b&w and col. ; 18 x 13 cm or smaller
- 2121 slides : col. ; 35 mm
- Date
- [1972]-2002
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of slides primarily from Camp Solelim. There are additional photos from Camp Biluim and Biluim Israel.
- Custodial History
- One photo album belonged to Biluim Israel staff member, Aubrey Zimmerman.
- Administrative History
- Canadian Young Judaea was founded in 1909 as a Zionist movement for Canadian youth by members of the Herzl Zion Club. As a Zionist organization, Young Judaea continues to be committed to fostering a sense of Jewish identity and values in today's Jewish youth and to encouraging a lifelong commitment to Israel. In order to foster a closer connection to Israel, Canadian Young Judaea employs educational Shlichim from Israel who are posted to various Jewish communities throughout Canada and to offices at the national level in Toronto Young Judaea also operates several Zionist summer camps located in each region of Canada, and a summer leadership institute called Camp Biluim in Quebec. In addition to the social programme of the organization, Young Judaea also offers educational seminars and conferences.
Young Judaea's national structure includes a National Executive Board and an Administrative Council. Conventions are held regularly, as are regional conferences. In the past, Young Judaea operated as an associated, but distinct, organization from the Zionist Organization Canada. However, Young Judaea operations were overseen by the ZOC executive, and Young Judaea received their budget from the ZOC Treasury. In addition, ZOC and Young Judaea worked in conjunction with one another on many projects and programmes, such as with the operation of the Zionist camps.
- Camp Solelim was founded in 1965. Its name comes from Kibbutz HaSolelim in Israel which recognizes the builders who were integral to the establishment of the State of Israel. The program is infused with informal social, Jewish and Zionist educational programs. Like many of the camps founded earlier, campers are encouraged to participate in the functioning of the camp and derive a strong sense of responsibility through daily camp operations and camp projects.
- Camp Biluim was founded in 1961 under the auspices of the Zionist Organization of Canada as a national leadership training institute for Canadian youth. Originally located in Huntsville Ontario, the camp moved to Mont Tremblant, Quebec in 1976, where it remains today under the full operation of Canadian Young Judaea. The purpose of the camp was to provide practical and transferable leadership training to a slightly older group of Jewish Canadian youths, most of whom were members of Young Judaea. Many Camp Biluim graduates later returned to ZOC summer camps as counsellors or found senior administrative positions in Canadian Young Judaea. Camp Biluim was co-administered by the National Camps Association, and during its period in Ontario, the Ontario Camps Association. However, daily operation and staffing of the summer camp was provided by Canadian Young Judaea.
- Subjects
- Youth
- Camps
- Name Access
- Canadian Young Judaea
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-6-19
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-6-19
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 79 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1941-1942
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Balfour Manor Camp. Included are approximately eighty black and white photographs, most of which have identifications on the reverse.
- Individuals identified in the photographs include: Hanna[h?] Batnick, Gladys Bernstein, Judy Bernstein, Toshie Blackstone, L. Bolter, Jeanette Chapman, Doreen Cohen, [Suzy?] Davidson, Marcia Dillick, Sidney "Sid" Dillick, Dave Faber, R. Freedman, Ruby Freidman, Barbara Gitter, Gloria Glazier, Ruth Goldberg, Abbie Goldblatt, Marv Goldblatt, S. Goldblatt, Shiela Gould, J. Granovsky, Effie Greben, Mimi Hertz, Toni Hertz, Herk Herwitz, Annette Jacobson, Vera K., Marnie Kamin, Freddie Kohal, Sylvia Kohl, Lillian Lampkovitz, B. Levine, Herzel Levine, Esther Kolchin, Rhoda Magder, Ellie Markson, M. Markson, Marilyn Miller, M. Minden, Molly Mintz, Perky Nusbaum, R. Nusbaum, Gilbert Paskowitz, Herbie Paskowitz, J. Pattenick, Joan Pullan, Art Resnick, Lila Riven, Eleanor Rivlin, Lloyd Robstein, Faye Roefe, Les Roefe, Sandra Rose, Sid Rosen, Lewis Rosenberg, Audrey Rothschild, Yitta Rubin, Estelle Rucker, Seabiscuit, Gloria Shaffran, Selma Shone, Ruth Silver, Norm Simpson, Estelle Tucker, Lynda Weiss, and Irving Winston.
- Custodial History
- The photographs previously belonged to the donor's mother, Marcia Rose (née Dillick).
- Administrative History
- Irene Granovsky founded the Balfour Manor Camp in 1935 and subsequently served as its director. The camp took its name from British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, the author of the Balfour Declaration. The camp was situated on Morrison Lake and served as a private camp for Jewish youth, providing such activities as canoeing, swimming, and tennis. At its peak, the camp was home to two hundred or so campers. It closed in 1952.
- 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
- RELATED MATERIAL NOTE: Other records relating to Balfour Manor Camp can be found in accession 1991-12-4.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Name Access
- Balfour Manor Camp
- Dillick, Sidney
- Granovsky (family)
- Rose, Marcia
- Places
- Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-9-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-9-5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 90 cm
- Date
- 1942
- Scope and Content
- Item is a panoramic group portrait of Camp Winnebagoe campers taken in 1942. Identified are brother and sister Lyle Steinberg (third row up, the sixth boy from the right) and Shiela Steinberg (seated in the front row, second from the left). Later—possibly in 1947—the family changed its name to Stanway.
- Custodial History
- Margot Freedman, the daughter of Lyle Stanway (né Steinberg), one of the children identified in the portrait, donated the photograph to the Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre.
- 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
- Camps
- Portraits, Group
- Name Access
- Camp Winnebagoe
- Places
- Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory
- Date
- 1931
- Publisher
- International Advertising Agency
- Format
- Directory
- Subject
- City Directories
- Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Source
- 1931 Toronto Jewish Directory