- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Photographic and audiovisual collection series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 27
- File
- 353
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 54 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of fifty-four photographs from a UJA event with Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Also identified in the photos are Allan Offman, Tubby Cole, Ellen Cole, Rabbi Plaut, John Roberts (MP), Hy Isenbaum, Jack Chisvin, Carl and Pearl Cole, Max Tanenbaum, Lewis Moses, Senator Dave Croll, Dr. Halbert, Morris Kaufman, Phil Granovsky, Eleanor Rose, Rabbi Ben Friedberg (Beth Tzedec), Irwin Gold, and Joey and Toby Tanenbaum (?).
- Notes
- Photos by Graphic Artists Photographers, Toronto.
- Availability of other formats: Also available as digital images.
- Name Access
- Canada. Prime Minister (1968-1979 : Trudeau)
- Subjects
- Prime ministers--Canada
- 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
- Gilbert Studios fonds
- Negev dinners series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 37
- Series
- 1
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 45 negatives : col. ; 13 x 11 cm and 6 x 6 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- John G. Diefenbaker was born in Neustadt, Ontario on Sept. 18, 1895 to William and Mary. He joined the Canadian Officers' Training Corps and served as lieutenant with the 105th Saskatoon Fusiliers' Regiment between the years 1916-1917. Afterwards, he returned to school in Saskatchewan and became a lawyer starting up a practice in Wakaw.
- He married Edna Brauer, then after her death, he remarried in 1953 to Olive E. Freeman Palmer. He had no children.
- John G. Diefenbaker was elected to the house of Parliament in 1940 and won the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1956. The Party won the 1957 election and John G. Diefenbaker became Canada's 13th Prime Minister. He was defeated in 1963 by the Liberals, and in 1967 Diefenbaker was replaced as the P.C. leader by Robert Stansfield.
- During his reign as Prime Minister, he initiated the Canadian Bill of Rights, which was later adopted in 1960. John G. Diefenbaker died on Aug. 16, 1979.
- The 1973 Negev dinner, along with the erection of the John G. Diefenbaker Parkway in Israel, was the Toronto Jewish Community's recognition of his humanitarian efforts and his commitment to Israel.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photographs documenting the Negev dinner held in honour of John G. Diefenbaker at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto.
- The programme for the evening included speeches and presentations from the following guests: Robert R. Hall, Rabbi David Monson, Leona Finkler, Cantor Joseph Cooper, Hon. Allan Grossman, Ambassador Theodor Meron, James F. Kay, Bernard M. Bloomfield, Philip G. Givens, Murray B. Koffler, and David L. Dennis.
- Name Access
- Bloomfield, Bernard M.
- Cooper, Cantor Joseph
- Dennis, David L.
- Diefenbaker, John G., 1895-1979
- Finkler, Leona
- Givens, Philip G.
- Grossman, Allan, 1910-1991
- Hall, Robert R.
- Kay, James F.
- Koffler, Murray B.
- Meron, Theodor
- Monson, Rabbi David
- Palmer, Olive E. Freeman [Diefenbaker]
- Subjects
- Prime ministers--Canada
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Photographic and audiovisual collection series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 27
- File
- 113
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Jun. 1974
- Physical Description
- 9 slides : col. ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of seven slides depicting the Seventeenth CJC Plenary Assembly at the Royal York Hotel. Also includes two slides depicting Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
- Name Access
- Canada. Prime Minister (1968-1979 : Trudeau)
- Royal York Hotel (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- Prime ministers--Canada
- Related Material
- Photos of the same event can be found in fonds 67, series 27, file 94.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 19 Feb.1949
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 23 cm (sight) in matte 28 x 36 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two photographs of Phil Givens conversing with Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. One of the photographs is surrounded by a matte that has been signed by St. Laurent.
- Name Access
- Canada. Prime Minister (1948-1957 : St-Laurent)
- Subjects
- Prime ministers--Canada
- 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.
- Physical Condition
- The matte surrounding the one photograph is ripped on the top left corner.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- National politics series
- Phil Givens with Brian Mulroney (Breakfast event) file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 51
- Series
- 7
- File
- 12
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1985
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 20 x 25 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Phil Givens meeting with Brian Mulroney at a breakfast event. Identified in the photograph are (foreground, left to right): Brian Mulroney, Paul Godfrey, and Phil Givens.
- Notes
- Photograph is by Mike Peake (The Toronto Sun)
- Name Access
- Canada. Prime Minister (1984-1993 : Mulroney)
- Subjects
- Prime ministers--Canada
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Jewish communal series
- Canadian Zionist Federation sub-series
- Canadian Zionist Federation - Tribute album file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 51
- Series
- 9-2
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: b&w ; 21 x 25 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- William Dennison was Toronto's fifty-fifth mayor. He was in office from 1 January 1967 to 31 December 1972.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Phil Givens (left) conversing with Prime Minister Trudeau (centre) and Mayor Dennison during a visit to Toronto's New City Hall during the 1968 federal election.
- Name Access
- Canada. Prime Minister (1968-1979 : Trudeau)
- Subjects
- Mayors
- Prime ministers--Canada
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- City of Toronto Mayor series
- Official engagements sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 51
- Series
- 4-6
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 15 Mar. 1964
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 19 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photographs of Phil and Min Givens at a dinner for Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Included are images of Phil Givens delivering a speech, Min Givens seated with Prime Minister Pearson at a head table, and Phil and Min Givens standing with Prime Minister Pearson, Paul Hellyer and an unidentified guest.
- Notes
- Photographs are by Boris Spremo of the Globe and Mail.
- Name Access
- Canada. Prime Minister (1963-1968 : Pearson)
- Subjects
- Dinners and dining
- Prime ministers--Canada
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Arab-Israeli War series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 5
- File
- 23
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [197-]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains a letter Dunkelman wrote in his role as the national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of Canada to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Dunkelman urges Trudeau to protect Canadian Jews from an Arab boycott. The file also includes a biography Dunkelman used when representing Jewish organizations.
- Notes
- Availability of other formats: Also available as PDF files.
- Name Access
- Canada. Prime Minister (1968-1979 : Trudeau)
- Subjects
- Boycotts
- Jewish-Arab relations
- Prime ministers--Canada
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Cowan family fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 102
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1963-1969
- Physical Description
- 48 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photographs documenting Saul Cowan's career as a trustee and then as chairman of the North York Board of Education. Included are group photos of the board and trustees, participants at inaugural meetings and at an Advisory Vocational Dinner. There are also images of Saul's installation as chairman, his visits to a community day care centre and an elementary schools' art exhibit in a library, and the sod turning ceremony for the Education Administrative Centre at 5050 Yonge Street (1969). In addition, there are photographs taken at the openings of Newtonbrook Secondary School, Stanford Fleming Secondary School, and Herron Valley Junior High School. Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson is seen in the Newtonbrook pictures.
- Name Access
- Pearson, Lester B., 1897-1972
- Subjects
- Prime ministers--Canada
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- National Executive Council series
- Presidents sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 38
- Series
- 2-1
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1972
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence to federal Members of Parliament and Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and responses written on behalf of Trudeau.
- Name Access
- Canada. Prime Minister (1968-1979 : Trudeau)
- Subjects
- Canada. Parliament
- Prime ministers--Canada
- Source
- Archival Descriptions