- Accession Number
- 2005-8-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-8-6
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 1 videocassette : VHS
- Date
- 1959
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one VHS cassette of approximately 10 minutes of original family home movies of the Weinstock family vacationing in Pontypool. The video begins with an introduction to the home movies by Nathan Weinstock. The video contains scenes of activities including swimming, dancing, fishing, and playing cards.
- Administrative History
- Nathan Weinstock (b. 1950) is the son of Abraham (b. 1917) and Chanah (b. 1922) Weinstock who were both born in Poland. He has an older brother, Joseph (b. 1946) and a younger sister, Lily (b. 1954). The Weinstock family vacationed in Pontypool between 1956 and 1962.
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- Communities
- Name Access
- Weinstock, Nathan
- Weinstock, Abraham
- Weinstock, Chanah
- Places
- Pontypool, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-9-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-9-4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 17 x 10 cm
- Date
- 1951
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of two copy photographs of Mr.and Mrs. Louis and Irene Miller with Sarah Zeidenber and Mrs. Irene Miller with Sarah Zeidenber and Thelma (Zeidenber) Greenblatt in Pontypool
- Administrative History
- Louis and Sarah Zeidenber lived in Toronto but spent most of their summers at their cottage on Bornstein hill in Pontypool, which was a popular summer resort spot for vacationing Jews from the 1940s to the 1960s. The area was relatively cheap and had a pond as its swimming spot. Kosher meals would often be brought in for the vacationers who arrived on two trains daily from Union station.
- For approximately three years the Zeidenber's rented the rear half of their cottage to their friends Louis and Irene Miller, until the Miller's started to rent a cottage from the Bornsteins.
- The Zeidenber's are the parents of the donor, Thelma (Zeidenber) Greenblatt
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Communities
- Families
- Outdoor recreation
- Vacations
- Name Access
- Miller, Louis
- Miller, Irene
- Zeidenber, Thelma
- Zeidenber, Sarah
- Zeidenber, Louis
- Places
- Pontypool, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-11-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2005-11-5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one photograph of Sadie and Nathan Friedman standing in a field at Crystal's Resort in Pontypool around the summer of 1930.
- Administrative History
- Nathan Friedman (b. 1906-d. 1954) was born in Poland and Sadie (Book) Friedman (b. 1911- d. 1991) was born in Hamilton, ON. They were married in Toronto in June 1929. Nathan worked as a furrier in Toronto. They began vacationing in Pontypool during the early 1930s and originally rented a loft in the Crystal's barn. Later they rented a cabin at Crystal's Resort. The donor, Jerry Friedman, is the son of Nathan and Sadie.
- Pontypool was a popular summer resort spot for vacationing Jews from the 1940s to the 1960s. The area was relatively cheap and had a pond as its swimming spot. Kosher meals would often be brought in for the vacationers who arrived on two trains daily from Union station. Charlie and Surah Crystal were the owners of several resort cabins resort that was popular amongst the Jewish vacationers.
- Subjects
- Charities
- Outdoor recreation
- Vacations
- Name Access
- Friedman, Nathan
- Friedman, Sadie
- Places
- Pontypool, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-34
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-6-34
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w (jpg)
- Date
- [1933?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a scanned copy of a photograph taken at the Lambert family's Port Dalhousie cottage. The donor, Eleanor Lambert (née Friedman), and her mother Channa Friedman are at the bottom right. Back row: Minna Anderson, Patty Walman, Sarah Meyers. Front row: Jean Matlow, Goldie Matlow, Esther Rivka Pomerantz, Channa Friedman, Eleanor Friedman.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Subjects
- Communities
- Families
- Outdoor recreation
- Name Access
- Lambert family
- Places
- Port Dalhousie, Ont.
- St. Catharines, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a copy portrait of the Abramsky children, identified from left to right as: Ida, Katherine (Gould), Harry, Edith (Mrs. Hillel Weinberg, Toronto), Moe.
- Notes
- Original photograph by D. A. Weese, Elite Studio, Kingston.
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- Children
- Portraits, Group
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Kingston (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-7-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3362
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3362
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1913]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 11 x 14 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Bunny was born in 1910, Ida in 1911 and Rita in 1908. There were five other children in the Moses family: Wolfe (b. 1913), Malca (b. 1915), Aubey (b. 1917), Nat (b. 1919), and Sid (b. 1921). Their parents were Hascal and Annie Moses.
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of siblings Bunny, Ida and Rita Moses as children.
- Notes
- Original photograph by J.A. McDonald, Sudbury.
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- Children
- 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
- Sudbury (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-10-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2013-4-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-4-3
- Material Format
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 2 film reels (ca. 6 min.) : b&w, si. ; 8 mm
- Date
- 1951-1952
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of two 8 mm film reels documenting the activities of Norman Burns and his family. Included is a film with footage of a Jewish resort near Muskoka (likely Arcadia House in Port Carling), such as shots of men leaving their cabins, diving in the water, men and women sun tanning and playing on a beach, men and women dressed in costume and men playing cards. Also included is a film documenting a family Passover seder.
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- Vacations
- Name Access
- Burns, Norman
- Places
- Port Carling, 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
- 2014-5-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-5-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 60 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1956-2006
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of the records of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto related to the Tomorrow Campaign as well as the legal and corporate operations departments. Included are JAA Integrated Development Steering Committee records (2001-2004); the Vaughan Campus Strategic Plan (2003); Lebovic Campus Steering Committee meeting minutes and correspondence (2006); records related to the legal department's involvement in the Truth, Light and Freedom: Iran Exposed event (2006); Miles Nadal JCC Construction Committee records (2002-2003); governance documents for the UIA, CIJA, CIC, CJC and the NJCL; as well as legal documents and meeting minutes for the Tent City Association, which ran a camp in Innisfil Ontario for the children of cottagers on Lake Simcoe (1956-1990s).
- Use Conditions
- UJA Federation meeting minutes and general correspondence are closed for 10 years from date of creation. Contracts and donor agreements are permanently closed.
- Descriptive Notes
- Use Conditions note: UJA Federation records are closed for 10 years from date of creation.
- Subjects
- Nonprofit organizations
- Outdoor recreation
- Philanthropy and fundraising
- Name Access
- UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
- Tent City Association
- Places
- Toronto
- Innisfil, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4651
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4651
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [194-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- No place specified.
- Front left: David E. Newman.
- Name Access
- Newman, David E.
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- 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
- 1981-11-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3808
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3808
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1 Aug. 1934
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Gull Lake
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- 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
- Gull Lake (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1985-7-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 2491
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2491
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1921]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- No place specified, but probably Toronto.
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- 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
- 1980-2-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3778
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3778
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1914]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia toned
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait taken at a studio with a backdrop of Niagara Falls. Rebecca is on the far left and her brother Louis is in the middle. The other two individuals are either family members or friends. It was likely taken before her husband and Louis enlisted in the military during the First World War.
- Name Access
- Ross, Lou
- Rotenberg, Lou
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- 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
- Niagara Falls (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1985-7-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3804
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3804
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [193-?]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Nekoa Club
- Young Men's Hebrew Association
- Young Women's Hebrew Association
- YWHA
- YMHA
- High Park
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- Women
- 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
- High Park (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1985-7-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 737
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 737
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- May 1943
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of David Platnick in cadet uniform crouched down and holding his sister Marilyn Platnick.
- Notes
- Acquired June 28, 1976.
- Name Access
- Platnick, David
- Platnick, Marilyn
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- 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 2947
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2947
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- May 1925
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Identified in this photograph from left to right are: Becky (Cooper) Trachter and her brother Art Cooper. Becky Cooper married Harry Trachter and had three children: Booky (Kwart), Sylvia (Consky) and Norman Trachter.
- Name Access
- Cooper, Art
- Cooper, Becky
- Trachter, Becky
- Trachter's Milk Store
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- 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
- Kensington Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-8-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 3775
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3775
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Jul. 1914
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- The item is a photograph of Sam Berger (top left) with several of his friends in the countryside.
- Name Access
- Berger, Sam
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- 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
- 1985-7-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gary family fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 97; Item 2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gary family fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 97
- Item
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Aug. 1964
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Nancy Halter is the granddaughter of Joseph and Goldie Gary and the youngest daughter of Jack Halter and Ethel Halter (née Gary). The Manettas also owned resort cabins and had the only pool in Pontypool.
- Scope and Content
- Copy photograph of Nancy Halter wading in the Manettas pool in Pontypool. Nancy's sister, Frances, is seen in the background with her bathing cap on.
- Name Access
- Manetta family
- Gary, Ethel
- Gary, Goldie
- Gary, Joseph
- Gary, Leslie
- Halter, Nancy
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Pontypool (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gary family fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 97; Item 4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gary family fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 97
- Item
- 4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Aug. 1962
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 10 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Frances and Nancy Halter are the daughters of Jack Halter and Ethel Halter (née Gary) and the granddaughters of Joseph and Goldie Gary.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Nancy Halter (sitting) and her older sibling Frances (standing) in a children's wading pool on the property of the Gary homestead in Pontypool.
- Notes
- Title taken from writing on back of original photo.
- Name Access
- Gary, Ethel
- Gary, Leslie
- Gary, Shirley
- Gary, Goldie
- Gary, Joseph
- Halter, Nancy
- Halter, Frances
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Pontypool (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gary family fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 97; Item 7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gary family fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 97
- Item
- 7
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1950]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Ethel Halter (née Gary) reclining on a lawn chair in her bathing suit at Gary's Cottages.
- Notes
- Title taken from writing on back of original photograph.
- Name Access
- Gary, Ethel
- Gary, Leslie
- Gary, Shirley
- Gary, Goldie
- Gary, Joseph
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Pontypool (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gary family fonds
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Fonds 97; Item 9
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gary family fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 97
- Item
- 9
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- August 1964
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 10 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Nancy Halter is the daughter of Jack Halter and Ethel Halter (née Gary) and the granddaughter of Joseph and Goldie Gary.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Nancy Halter in her bathing suit, standing in front of Gary's cottages in Pontypool. She is holding a bucket of sand and there is a wooden chair directly behind her.
- Notes
- Title taken from writing on back of original photograph.
- Name Access
- Gary, Ethel
- Gary, Leslie
- Gary, Shirley
- Gary, Goldie
- Gary, Joseph
- Halter, Nancy
- Subjects
- Outdoor recreation
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Pontypool (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gordon Melamed fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 7
- Item
- 23
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [190-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of Morris Melamed with his sister, taken in Russia.
- Name Access
- Melamed, Morris
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- 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
- Russia
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Child portraits series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 3
- Item
- 23
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 15 Dec. 1945
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 9 cm and 12 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of two children, age apprixamtely 6 and 1 years old, seated facing the camera. There is a strong likelihood that the wrong name was assigned to this negative by Sylvia as the Rasminsky family do not recognize these children.
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- 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
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Child portraits series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 3
- Item
- 31
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 5 May 1945
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 9 cm and 11 x 8 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Adrian Seguin and Natalie Seguin were the children of Bertha "Tutzi" Haspel Seguinn and Georges Seguin. Adrian and Natalie shared a younger sister, Yvonne Seguin, who is not pictured in this photograph (she may have been a baby or not yet born when the photograph was taken).
- Georges Sequin's birth name was Simon Segal. He changed his name when he came to Canada from Romania in order to avoid having a more Jewish name. Bertha's birth name was Bertha Haspel; "Tutzi" was her nickname.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a black-and-white portrait of siblings Adrian Seguin and Natalie Seguin. Adrian and Natalie appear to be between the ages of six and eight in the photograph and are seated together on a ledge. Adrian has his hand on his knee; Natalie has both of her hands in her lap.
- Name Access
- Seguin, Adrian
- Seguin, Natalie
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- 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
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Child portraits series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 3
- Item
- 40
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Jan. 1953
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 9 cm and 11 x 8cm
- Scope and Content
- The item is a portrait of a brother and sister leaning against a chair, the sister in front of the bother while facing the camera.
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Portraits sub-series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 5-1
- Item
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- May 1951
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Ralph Halbert was born in 1930 to Hyman and Faye Halbert. He is eldest brother to Dr. Gerald Halbert and Mrs. Rhoda Brown (née Halbert). Gerald Halbert was born in 1935, and Rhoda Brown (née Halbert) was born in an unknown year. Their mother Faye was Sylvia Schwartz's cousin on her mother's side.
- Ralph Halbert graduated from North Toronto Collegiate in 1948 and went on to attain his medical degree from the University of Toronto.
- Since the early 1960s, he has been actively involved and supportive of the UJA and the Jewish community both in Toronto and Israel. In 1977, as the president of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University, Ralph and his wife Rosyln established the Programme of Canadian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1995 it was renamed the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies. The centre fosters research and promotes the understanding and knowledge of Canadian civilization in all its aspects among Israeli academics and the public at large. The Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies' activities focus on research, publications, public lectures, visiting professors program, courses in Canadian studies, library resources, and conferences.
- Gerald Halbert received his medical degree in 1960 from the University of Toronto. He was married in 1960 to Sandra ("Tootsie") Sukerman (m. Halbert), and they have two daughters: Wendy and Michelle. Around that time, he became very involved in the Jewish community, first volunteering for the UJA in 1960 and then traveling to Israel on a UJA Young Leadership Mission in 1962. Inspired and awed by the country, his lifelong commitment to the community was solidified. Since that time, he has held many volunteer leadership roles within the Toronto community, including: chair and/or co-chair for three UJA Federation campaigns and president of United Israel Appeal of Canada and of Canadian Friends of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also been active in the development of the Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life at the University of Toronto.
- Outside of the Jewish community, he has helped to raise funds for and establish several research chairs at the University of Toronto and University Health Network and is a member of the Mount Sinai Hospital Board of Governors. He is a member of the Toronto General and Western Hospital Foundation Board of Directors, where he has volunteered significant time to a number of fundraising initiatives including the Spark of Life and Neurosurgery Chair Campaigns. He is also board champion for the Krembil Neuroscience Centre’s Krembil Discovery Tower and Krembil Neuro Program.
- In 2002, he was awarded the Order of Canada for his lifelong commitment and contributions to his community.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Rhoda, Ralph and Gerald Halbert.
- Notes
- This listing only contains a negative, no proofs.
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Recreation sub-series
- Family Gathering at the Cottage in Bobcaygeon file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 5-2
- File
- 1
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- July 1941
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Herbert Solway received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1953 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1955. He was called to the Bar in 1957. Herbert was a founding member of Goodmans LLP, joining the firm in 1955. He has played a significant role in helping build the foundation of the firm, serving as its chair from 1980 to 1992. He served as a Chariman until 1994 and Partner until 1998. He continues to serve as Counsel to Goodmans. He was appointed to the Queen's Counsel in 1968.
- Herbert has also been a Director of Gluskin Sheff and Associates Inc. since May 2006. He is a Director of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and a Founding director of the Tarragon Theatre Company. He was a Founding director of Sun Media Corporation, as well as a Director of John Labatt Ltd.
- Carol Solway is the daughter of Alex and Fanny Solway, brother of Herbert Solway and the niece of Sylvia Schwartz.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Herbert and Carol Solway.
- Notes
- This item has no proofs.
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- 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.
- Related Material
- See Fonds 80 for portraits of the Solway families.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sylvia Schwartz fonds
- Family series
- Recreation sub-series
- Candid Photographs from the Cottage in Bobcaygeon file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 80
- Series
- 5-2
- File
- 5
- Item
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1955
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w (negative) ; 14 x 7 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Herbert Solway received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1953 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1955. He was called to the Bar in 1957. Herbert was a founding member of Goodmans LLP, joining the firm in 1955. He has played a significant role in helping build the foundation of the firm, serving as its chair from 1980 to 1992. He served as a Chariman until 1994 and Partner until 1998. He continues to serve as Counsel to Goodmans. He was appointed to the Queen's Counsel in 1968.
- Herbert has also been a Director of Gluskin Sheff and Associates Inc. since May 2006. He is a Director of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and a Founding director of the Tarragon Theatre Company. He was a Founding director of Sun Media Corporation, as well as a Director of John Labatt Ltd.
- Carol Solway is the daughter of Alex and Fanny Solway, sister of Herbert Solway and the niece of Sylvia Schwartz.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of Herbert and Carol Solway.
- Notes
- This item has no proofs. This item shares a negative with F80_s5-2_f5_i1.
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Related Material
- See Fonds 80, series 5 for more photographs of the Solway family.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gilbert Studios fonds
- Al Gilbert portraits series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 37
- Series
- 4
- Item
- 12
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1965]
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- The generation of Posluns captured in this photograph were the children of Sheindel and Abraham Isaac Posluns. They had seven children named: Abe, Louis, Sam, Joseph, Gertie, Sarah and Anne.
- Abe was born in 1908. He married Elsie Posluns and had three children named: Alan Irwin, Dorothy Hildred, and Richard Wilfred Joel. Abe Posluns was a financier and was actively involved in the Toronto Jewish community.Moreover, at different points in his life, he was president of the United Community Fund of Greater Toronto, president of the Jewish Home for the Aged, President of Baycrest Hospital, Honorary Vice-President for United Jewish Welfare Fund, Director and Executive of New Mount Sinai Hospital, Director of YW-YMHA, Director of Canadian Welfare Council, and a member of B'nai B'rith, Primrose Club, and Oakdale Golf and Country Club.
- Louis Posluns was married to Leah and they had three sons: Wilfred, Jack and Irving. Louis was the Presdient of YMHA and a founding member of Beth Tzedec Congregation. Louis and his brother Jospeh started a family business called Superior Cloak; all four brothers became involved in the business, which in turn led to the creation of several other successful organizations.
- Sam Posluns was Past President of the Board of Jewish Education.
- The Posluns family was involved in many philanthropic ventures, which included a donation to the Baycrest Hospital to help fund a centre devoted to helping seniors who suffer from dementia as a result of strokes. The Louis and Leah Posluns Centre for Stroke and Cognition opened in 2000. The Leah Posluns Theatre located at the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre was also funded by the Poslun family.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is of the Posluns siblings. Seated from left to right are Gertie Wasserman, Joseph and Louis. Standing from left to right are Sam, Abe, Sarah Bernstein and Anne Straus.
- Name Access
- Posluns
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- Portraits, Group
- 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.
- Related Material
- 1997-7-6 Sam Posluns fonds
- 1999-12-2 Leah Posluns Theatre
- 2004-5-79 Posluns family memorabilia
- Oral History #AC 214 Abe Posluns
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Gilbert Studios fonds
- Nathan Gilbert portraits series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 37
- Series
- 5
- Item
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1932]
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Nathan Gittelmacher was an immigrant from the Ukraine who moved to Toronto and first worked as a photographer at Empire Studios. In 1922, he opened up his own business called Elite Studios, located at 615 Queen Street West. He specialized in portraits and catered to a largely Jewish clientele.
- Nathan Gittelmacher changed his family's name to Gilbert in the early 1940s and subsequently altered the family business name to Gilbert Studios. Nathan was married to Nina and they had four children named: Lou, Jack, Albert and Ruth.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Gilbert family in swimming suits posing in front of their automobile with the Elite Studio insignia at Sunnyside Beach in Toronto.
- Boris Waxer is lying on top of the car and Nina Gilbert is behind the wheel. In front of the car from left to right are: Nathan Gilbert, Albert Gilbert, Jack Gilbert, Lou Gilbert, Evelyn Stacker and reclining in front is Joe Gilbert. Standing at the far right is the driver.
- Name Access
- Stacker, Evelyn
- Waxer, Boris
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- Outdoor recreation
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ida Lewis Siegel fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 15
- File
- 37
- Item
- 4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1938]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Camp Winnebagoe is still operating today as a private co-ed Jewish summer camp for children eight to sixteen years of age. It was founded by Joseph B. and Sadie Danson and was located on 500 acres of land near Huntsville in Ontario's Muskoka region. The camp catered to the Jewish community and provided a variety of different athletic and social programmes, such as arts and crafts, canoeing, baseball, swimming, music and nature studies. Ida Siegel's son David, was a counsellor at the camp.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of a group of swimmers at Camp Winnebagoe in Huntsville, Ontario. The image shows both male and female swimmers in the lake.
- Subjects
- Camps
- Outdoor recreation
- 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
- Huntsville (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-2-13
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ida Lewis Siegel fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 15
- File
- 37
- Item
- 11
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1940]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Leah Gittel, Rohama Lee, and David Isar were the first, second, and third children born to Ida and Isidore Siegel.
- Leah Gittel moved to the United States to study nursing. She met and married Rabbi Jerome Labovitz in Philadelphia.
- Rohama graduated from the University of Toronto and became a writer. She was a journalist in Canada during the late 1930s and early 1940s. She then moved to the United States in the 1940s and lived in New York City. She co-wrote the 1943 film "Tonight We Raid Calais" and the 1938 film "We're Going to Be Rich" and several short film scripts for the Office of War Information during the Second World War. Later, she edited Film News, a leading film industry magazine.
- David served in the Second World War as a flight lieutenant in the RCAF. He graduated from McMaster University and the Ontario College of Education and became a public school teacher. He later moved to the United States and became executive director of several synagogues and Jewish centres in New York and New Jersey. David married Ada Steinberg.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a studio portrait of the Steinberg siblings. Identified from left, Shulamit, Ada and Leo Steinberg. Judging by the clothing, the photograph was likely taken around 1940.
- Subjects
- Brothers and sisters
- 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.
- Accession Number
- 1988-2-13
- Source
- Archival Descriptions