Part Of

Benjamin Brown fonds

Commercial building plans and drawings series

Level

File

Fonds

49

Series

3

File

29

Material Format

architectural drawing

Date

1926

Physical Description

4 architectural drawings : pencil ; 62 cm length or smaller and 4 cm diam.

Admin History/Bio

Mr. Sol Wilks was the owner of a stationary store and two commercial/residential buildings. One building was located at the corner of Robina and St. Clair and the other at 1034 St. Clair, where he also resided.

Scope and Content

File consists of architectural drawings for stores and an apartment building located on the N.W. corner of Robina and St. Clair for Mr. Sol Wilks. The building was three stories high and contained one, two bedroom suite and four, one bedroom suites. Floor plans and elevations are included.

Places

Robina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Saint Clair Avenue West (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2014-2-11

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Date

Nov. 1949

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one dedication programme booklet for the Shaarei Shomayim Congregation at 840 St. Clair Ave. West, Toronto.

Custodial History

Paul Gilmore, the Chair of the Archives Committee of Beth Israel in Kingston, found this programme as he was going through the synagogue's records. He mailed it to the OJA for our archives.

Subjects

Synagogue dedication services

Name Access

Shaarei Shomayim Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Places

Saint Clair Avenue West (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2016-6-14

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

13 photographs : b&w ; 35 x 30 cm or smaller

Date

1930-1967

Scope and Content

Accession consists of graphic materials documenting the family history of Roz Tepperman English. The records include photos relating to her grandmother Miril Kruger Kirshbaum, her involvement with the Cloakmakers Union, a special Mother’s Day photo as part of a 1939 women’s group event, snapshots in front of Miril and her husband Joseph Kirshbaum’s grocery store at 1044 Dundas Street and later at 1091 St. Clair Avenue West, and Joseph Kirshbaum in front of Goodbaum’s Grocery store at 1001 Eglinton Avenue West. Additional photos include a Toronto Evening Telegram photo of the Tepperman family gathered at their 55 Oxford Street home for a special welcome for returning Second World War veterans, Jack and Max Tepperman, 1945; a Sainthill-Levine annual employee holiday party; B’nai Brith York Chapter chair Lily Tepperman at meetings and a special presentation at the Noshery; and a cast photo of Roz English from a Bathurst Heights fundraising show.

Administrative History

Roz English (née Tepperman) was born in Toronto in 1950. Her mother, Lily Tepperman (née Kirshbaum) also of Toronto, was born in 1921. Lily’s younger brother was Murray Kirsh. They were the children of Polish immigrants Miril Kruger Kirshbaum (b. ca. 1895) and Joseph Kirshbaum (b. ca. 1895) both of Ostrowiec. Roz’s father, Jack Tepperman, was born in Toronto (1918-1980) and was the son of Yetta (Yochevet) Isser Tepperman (ca. 1880-1960) and Shaye Tepperman (ca. 1880-1960), both immigrants from Ivansk (Iwaniska), Poland. Jack was the youngest boy of eight children. His siblings were Morris, Harry, Rose, Albert, Rae, Max, and Pauline.

Miril Kruger Kirshbaum was a member of the Toronto Cloakmakers Union. The union was established in 1909 as an organized effort to assist and protect workers in the women's garment industry. Two years later they became affiliated with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in Toronto and became Local 14. Today they are the oldest local still in existence and are now called Unite Here Canada.

Later, Miril and her husband Joseph opened grocery shops in Toronto including the ones at 1004 Dundas Street and 1091 Street Clair Avenue West. Eventually they moved north of Eglinton where Joseph found employment at Birnbaum’s grocery store.

Roz’s grandparents are presumed to have lived above their shop at 1044 Dundas St. and moved to a home on Wynette with their daughter Lily, son-in-law Jack, and grandchildren Sharon (b. 1945) and Roz. The home was close to the new location of their grocery store on St. Clair Avenue West. When the Shaarei Shomayim congregation moved north of Eglinton to Glencairn and Bathurst, the family followed and moved to an apartment located at 2900 Bathurst Street.

Jack Tepperman and his brothers Albert and Max were employed as tailors for the Sainthill-Levine Company, Canadian manufacturers of uniforms. Jack married Lilly Kirshbaum in 1943. Lily was a lifelong community worker involved in groups such as B’nai Brith York Chapter.

Roz Tepperman, a graduate of Bathurst Heights and the University of Toronto, married her husband, Howard English, in 1971. She was active on the U of T campus in groups such as Students for Israel and volunteered on campus for Hillel and their first Monday night dinner club. Later she worked at the Jewish Public Library located on Glen Park at Glenmount and The Valley (located at 7015 Leslie Street) as a pre-school teacher. Roz and Howard have four children, Nisa, Shira, Aaron and Naomi.

Use Conditions

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

Subjects

Families

Places

Dundas Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Eglinton Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Oxford Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Saint Clair Avenue West (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

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Level

Item

Item

693

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1922

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Admin History/Bio

The store was located on St. Clair Ave., west of Landsdowne.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Sylvia Kaplan inside the I. Rosenbaum Dry Goods store at 1651 St. Clair Avenue West in Toronto. I. Rosenbaum was Sylvia Kaplan's father.

Name Access

I. Rosenbaum Dry Goods

Kaplan, Sylvia

Subjects

Dry-goods

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Saint Clair Avenue West (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2371

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

1 photograph

Admin History/Bio

The synagogue was located on St. Clair Avenue West, near Christie Street, until 1966, when it moved to Glencairn Avenue.

Scope and Content

5th from left: Sam Richman.

Name Access

Adler, Nathan

Shaarei Shomayim Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Cantors (Judaism)

Choirs (Music)

Places

Christie Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Saint Clair Avenue West (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-7-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Philip Givens fonds

Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission series

Official engagements sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

51

Series

5-3

File

14

Material Format

graphic material

Date

May 1984

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 13 x 10 cm

Admin History/Bio

The Primrose Club was founded in Toronto in 1907 as the Cosmopolitan Club, an elite Jewish men's social club. In 1959, the club's building at 41 Willcocks Street was expropriated by the University of Toronto (and currently houses the university's Faculty Club), and the club subsequently moved to a new building at Russell Road & St. Clair, designed by Kaplan & Sprachman. It has since been demolished and a condominium has been put up in its place by Ken Rotenberg, a Toronto developer.

Scope and Content

File consists of one photograph of Phil Givens meeting with a group of Police Chiefs. Identified in the photograph are (left to right): James Mackie, Harold Adamson, Jack Ackroyd, Jack Marks, Phil Givens.

Name Access

Primrose Club (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Police

Places

Russell Hill Road (Toronto, Ont.)

Saint Clair Avenue West (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Harold S. Kaplan fonds

Architectural projects series

Primrose Club, Russell Hill Rd. at St. Clair, Toronto, Canada sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

27

Series

1-9

Material Format

architectural drawing

Responsibility

Kaplan & Sprachman, architects

John B. Parkin & Assoc., architects & engineers

Date

1959-1960

Physical Description

84 drawings : blueprints and blackline prints ; 54 x 105 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio

The Primrose Club was founded in Toronto in 1907 as the Cosmopolitan Club, an elite Jewish men's social club. In 1959, the club's building at 41 Willcocks Street was expropriated by the University of Toronto (and currently houses the university's Faculty Club), and the club subsequently moved to a new building at Russell Road & St. Clair, designed by Kaplan & Sprachman. It has since been demolished and a condominium has been put up in its place by Toronto developer, Ken Rotenberg.

Scope and Content

The sub-series consists of two sets of lot plans, floor plans, elevations, mechanical and electrical plans and various building specifications, and a set of 5 plumbing and drainage plans. The set identified by inscriptions as the "original plan" is dated 14 May 1959; the second set of "revised plans" dates from 16 Sept. 1959.

Notes

Kaplan & Sprachman project reference code 58-K-31.

Name Access

Primrose Club

Physical Condition

Most of the plans are water-damaged along the lower edge.

Places

Russell Hill Road (Toronto, Ont.)

Saint Clair Avenue West (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2003-6-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Harold S. Kaplan fonds

Architectural projects series

Level

File

Fonds

27

Series

1

File

33

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of entrance to the building.

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

Saint Clair Avenue West (Toronto, Ont.)

Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2003-6-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2422

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Custodial History

This item is a photograph of Rabbi Samuel Cass on stage with three adult scouts during a jamboree. The photograph may have been taken inside the Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue on St. Clair Avenue in Toronto.

Name Access

Cass, Rabbi Samuel

Shaarei Shomayim Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Rabbis

Places

Saint Clair Avenue West (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-5-1

Source

Archival Descriptions