- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1890
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1890
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print of Max Noble standing in front of Noble's Clothing Store on 150 Market Street in Brantford, Ontario.
- Name Access
- Noble, Max
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- 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
- Brantford (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1980-1-14
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1500
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1500
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1908]
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w and sepia (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 9 x 14 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original and copy photograph and copy negative of Louis Minden inside his clothing store in Webbwood, Ontario near Espanola.
- Name Access
- Minden, Louis
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- 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
- Webbwood (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Name
- Max Enkin
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 24 Mar. 1982
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Max Enkin
- Number
- OH 132
- Subject
- Tailor project
- Clothing trade
- Clothing workers
- Refugee camps
- Legislators--Canada
- Labor unions
- Interview Date
- 24 Mar. 1982
- Quantity
- 1 audio cassette (1 copy)
- 1 WAV file
- Interviewer
- Jack Lipinsky
- Total Running Time
- 43.19 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Recopied March 2009 as the original copy done was inaudible.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Max Enkin was a founder and a leading member of the Jewish Vocational Services of Toronto. In 1947, as associate administrator and representative for the men's clothing sector in Ontario, Max Enkin became involved in the Tailor Project, which was designed to identify and select skilled tailors from the displaced persons camps of Europe and help to settle them in Canada. Max Enkin was awarded the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to Wartime Prices and Trade Council.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Geographic Access
- Europe
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 132 - Enkin\OH132_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Part Of
- Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 31
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- Date
- 1919-1988
- Physical Description
- 3.15 m of textual records
- 459 photographs
- 1 audiocasette
- Admin History/Bio
- The Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario (MCMAO) was formed and incorporated in 1919 under the name of the Associated Clothing Manufacturers. The Association's primary mandate was the representation of its membership in negotiations with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and later, the Toronto Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. The MCMAO membership was comprised of the manufacturing firms of men's clothing in Toronto and Hamilton and inlcuded companies such as Tip Top Tailors, Empire Clothing and Shiffer-Hillman among others. The Association was also involved in furthering the interests of the clothing industry in Ontario and with all matters pertaining to the clothing business in which the Association's membership was interested. The MCMAO was a represented member of the Apparel Manufacturers' Associatoin of Ontario and the Apparel Manufacturers' Council of Canada. The MCMAO ceased operation around 1989.
- Custodial History
- There is no information on the acquisition of these records. They came into the Archives in the early 1990s but the original source from the Association is unknown. The records were stored at the OJA's offsite storage location until 2008, when they were transferred to the OJA vault for processing.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of records documenting the Association’s role in negotiations with the employee’s union on behalf of their membership, as well as their work in lobbying senior levels of government on such matters as labour relations, tariffs and taxes, and other issues related to the production of men’s and boys’ garments. The records include legal documents; executive and committee meeting minutes; financial records; arbitration, mediation and negotiation reports and correspondence; collective agreements; labour statistics; general correspondence files; parliamentary briefs, submissions and reports; and seminar photographs. There are also files related to specific bodies that the Association collaborated or corresponded with, such as the Toronto Club of Clothing Designers. Of particular interest are the files of the Overseas Garment Workers Commission, which documents the Associations' role in helping bring over Jewish refugees and other Displaced Persons as tailors and garment workers.
- The fonds has been divided into twelve series: Legal; Board of Directors meeting minutes and agendas; Executive Committee / Executive Board meeting minutes and agendas; Annual and general meeting minutes and agendas; Negotiations Committee; Finance Committee; Public Relations Committee; Labour Relations Committee; Other committee meeting minutes and agendas; General correspondence; Parliamentary briefs, submissions, reports and correspondence; and Seminars.
- Name Access
- Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- Access Restriction
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Related Material
- Queen’s University Archives holds records of the MCMAO dating from 1920 to 1969. These records appear to have originated from the same source and at one point the collection had been split in two. The fonds at Queen’s is complementary to the OJA’s fonds and together, the two fonds provide a complete picture of the MCMAO and its work.
- Library and Archives Canada holds the records of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America fonds.
- Creator
- Men's Clothing Manufacturer's Association of Ontario (1919-1989)
- Accession Number
- 2008-12-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1501
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1501
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1908]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 9 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a print of Louis Minden standing in front of his clothing store in Webbwood, Ontario near Espanola.
- Name Access
- Minden, Louis
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- 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
- Webbwood (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 874
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 874
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duke Studio
- Date
- 1976
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print of The Fashion Centre clothing store located in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. The store was operated by Sam and Yetta Wertman from 1946 to 1973.
- Name Access
- Fashion Centre (Kirkland Lake, Ont.)
- Wertman, Sam
- Wertman, Yetta
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- 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
- Kirkland Lake (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 897
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 897
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duke Studios
- Date
- 1976
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print of the Rosenstein building, owned by Mrs. Rosenstein of Sturgeon Falls, and Seymour's men's boys' and ladies' wear store in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Seymour's was owned by Seymour Sukerman and was established in the early 1930s.
- Name Access
- Sukerman, Seymour
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- Streets
- 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
- Kirkland Lake (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2016-4-13
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-4-13
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 6 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 50 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1934-1977
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 5 photographs, a letter from Joan Sutton to Frank Laurie speaking about Nat Laurie's positive influence on her life and newsclippings. The photographs include a panoramic of a Dress Manufacturers Guild banquet (194-) featuring Nat Laurie at the head table in front of the microphone. Also identified are Sam, Abe and Joseph Posluns. Other photographs include images of Emma Laurie with daughter Marilyn and Emma's much younger half-sister Annie Pion Steinberg, a portrait of Emma Steinberg (ca. 1934) and one of Nat and Emma around the time of their wedding (ca. 1937) as well as a group photo of Marilyn Laurie at Camp Arowhon (ca. 1949-1950). Also identified in this photograph is Ruthie Silver.
- Administrative History
- Nathan (Nat) Laurie (ca. 1904-1958) was born around 1904 in Montreal, Quebec. He married Emma (nee Steinberg) (1914-1997) around 1937 after a brief courtship. Together they had one son, Frank and one daughter, Marilyn (m. Baker). Nat owned Nat Laurie Dresses at Spadina Avenue and Richmond Street in Toronto and was president of the Dress Manufacturers Guild. Notably, he was in charge of fabric allocations during the Second World War and provided a dress to the winner of the Miss Toronto pageant. In 1951, he opened the Zanzibar night club on Yonge Street as a live blues and jazz club. Nat died in 1958.
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- Name Access
- Laurie, Nat, 1904-1958
- Laurie, Emma, 1914-1997
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-1-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-1-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 22 cm of textual records
- Date
- [ca. 1928]-[200-?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records relating to labour and the garment industry in Toronto, Montreal, and Hamilton. Included are research leads as well as copies of relevant records held at various repositories in Canada and the United States including Library and Archives Canada, Archives of Ontario, Queen's University and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) archives held at Cornell University. Also included are newsclippings, journal articles and correspondence from Tulchinsky to various individuals associated with the clothing trade asking for interviews or information for his research on the garment industry in Canada. Finally, there are copies of a few PhD dissertations on the subject.
- Administrative History
- Dr. Gerald Tulchinsky was Professor Emeritus at Queen's University, Department of History, and author of several books on the history of Canadian Jewry and labour issues in Canada. His books include: Shtetl on the Grand (2015); Joe Salsberg: A Life of Commitment (2013); Canada's Jews: A People's Journey (2008); Branching Out: The Transformation of the Canadian Jewish Community (1998); Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community (1992); and The River Barons: Montreal Businessmen and the Growth of Industry and Transportation, 1837-53 (1977).
- Tulchinsky was born in Brantford, Ontario in 1933 to Harry and Anne Tulchinsky. He resided in Kingston, Ontario until his death on 13 Dec. 2017.
- Use Conditions
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing the records.
- Subjects
- Labor unions
- Clothing trade
- Name Access
- Tulchinsky, Gerald, 1933-2017
- Places
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Montréal (Québec)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1634
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1634
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1950]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph and copy negative of the opening of the Bond Clothes Shop in Lindsay, Ontario. The photograph depicts a crowd gathered at the front entrance. The store slogan is written on the front sign: Gentlemen prefer Bond's.
- Name Access
- Bond Clothes Shop (Lindsay, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- Crowds
- Storefronts
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Lindsay (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-7-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 1498
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1498
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-?]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograh of an unidentified man standing in front of B. Feldman's Clothing.
- Name Access
- B. Feldman's Clothing
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- 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
- Queen Street West (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1977-8-28
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 2373
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2373
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1933]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of photo of the Tip Top Tailors clothier factory with Sam Nudelman (?-1992) at rear with back to viewer (works for Canada Clothiers), Harvey Blackstein (1912-1986) is the boy at rear facing forward (now in insurance).
- Name Access
- Blackstein, Harvey
- Canada Clothiers
- Nudelman, Sam
- Tip Top Tailors
- Subjects
- Clothing factories
- Clothing trade
- Clothing workers
- 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
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1980-3-7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Samuel Posluns fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 70
- Material Format
- cartographic material
- graphic material
- textual record
- Date
- 1925-1984
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 91 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller
- 1 map : 46 x 65 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Samuel Posluns (1910–1994) was born in Toronto to Abraham Isaac Poslaniec (1870–1922) and Sheindel Saltzman (1872–1960). He had three brothers and three sisters: Joseph, Louis, Abe, Gertrude Miriam, Anne, and Sarah. His father, Abraham, established the family-run clothing firm Superior Cloak Company in 1916. In 1934, it was bankrupted and closed after a lengthy strike. In 1936, Samuel opened his own business, Popular Cloak Company. In 1967, the Posluns family purchased Tip Top Tailors, in partnership with entrepreneur Jimmy Kay. A year later they incorporated their new venture under the name of Dylex as a holding company for the Tip Top chain of stores.
- During the Second World War, Samuel Posluns served as a member of the air force reserves. After the war, he was elected president of the United Jewish Welfare Fund in 1947. That same year, in collaboration with the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labour Committee, Posluns helped lead the Tailor Project along with Max E. Enkin, which was aimed at helping Jewish displaced persons immigrate to Canada by securing them employment as tailors. A committed advocate for Jewish education, Posluns also served as the first president and founding chair of the Board of Jewish Education (BJE) in 1949. He remained honorary president for life and continued to attend meetings until health problems held back his participation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Posluns was also a founding board member of the North York General Hospital.
- Samuel Posluns died in Toronto in 1994.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of records related to the Posluns family and their clothing business, Popular Cloak Company. The records include correspondence, financial records, periodicals and newsletters, photographs, certificates and personal identification. The fonds also includes textual documents and photos documenting Samuel Posluns' involvement in the Tailor Project.
- Name Access
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Canadian Jewish Congress
- Enkin, Max E.
- Jewish Labour Committee
- Popular Cloak Company
- Posluns, Samuel, 1910-1994
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Immigrants--Canada
- Access Restriction
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Creator
- Posluns, Samuel, 1910-1994
- Places
- Germany
- Accession Number
- 1997-7-6
- 2004-5-79
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 22
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 22
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1905
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is one black-and-white photograph depicting the interior of the Imperial Shirt Company. The photograph is of several employees seated at their sewing machines with other employees supervising behind them. One of the workers is identified as Mr. Alex Hirschorn (located on the left hand side of the photo).
- Notes
- Photograph is a copy made by the archives in 1974.
- Name Access
- Imperial Shirt Company
- Hirschorn, Alex
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- Employees
- 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
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 27
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 27
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1937
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Custodial History
- Jack Brill donated these photographs to the Ontario Jewish Archives in 1974.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a black-and-white photograph taken of a group of Brill Cap and Neckwear Company employees attending a sales conference held at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto on 12 January 1937.
- Name Access
- Brill, Jack
- Brill Cap and Neckwear Co.
- Royal York Hotel (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- Congresses and conventions
- Employees
- 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
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2022-8-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2022-8-1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 9 photographs : b&w
- Date
- 1948-1970
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting Samuel Posluns. Included are nine black-and-white photographs, an El Al certificate certifying Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Posluns flew non-stop between the United States and Israel, one invitation to the bar mitzvah of Michael Wilfred Posluns, copies of an article by Bernard Shane about the Tailor Project that appeared in the Canadian Jewish Chronicle, and an issue of North York General Hospital News from 1970 that features Samuel Posluns.
- Administrative History
- Samuel Posluns (1910–1994) was born in Toronto to Abraham Isaac Poslaniec (1870–1922) and Sheindel Saltzman (1872–1960). He had three brothers and three sisters: Joseph, Louis, Abe, Gertrude Miriam, Anne, and Sarah. His father, Abraham, established the family-run clothing firm Superior Cloak Company in 1916. In 1934, it was bankrupted and closed after a lengthy strike. In 1936, Samuel opened his own business, Popular Cloak Company. In 1967, the Posluns family purchased Tip Top Tailors, in partnership with entrepreneur Jimmy Kay. A year later they incorporated their new venture under the name of Dylex as a holding company for the Tip Top chain of stores.
- During the Second World War, Samuel Posluns served as a member of the air force reserves. After the war, he was elected president of the United Jewish Welfare Fund in 1947. That same year, in collaboration with the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labour Committee, Posluns helped lead the Tailor Project along with Max E. Enkin, which was aimed at helping Jewish displaced persons immigrate to Canada by securing them employment as tailors. A committed advocate for Jewish education, Posluns also served as the first president and founding chair of the Board of Jewish Education (BJE) in 1949. He remained honorary president for life and continued to attend meetings until health problems held back his participation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Posluns was also a founding board member of the North York General Hospital.
- Samuel Posluns died in Toronto in 1994.
- 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: Photographs and textual records have been scanned and are available in digital form.
- Subjects
- Bar mitzvah
- Clothing trade
- Hospitals
- Name Access
- Posluns, Samuel, 1910-1994
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2023-1-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2023-1-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1940, 1969
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a ladies' wear buyers' guide from spring 1940 listing coat and suit, dress, sportswear, skirts and blouses, children's wear, millinery and fur manufacturers; as well as a fall and winter market guide from 1969 for women's and children's wear.
- Administrative History
- Samuel Hershenhorn was the proprietor of Lady Utex and Czigler Imports.
- 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.
- Subjects
- Clothing trade
- Source
- Archival Accessions