- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- architectural drawing
- Date
- 1898, 1941-1988
- Physical Description
- 56 photographs and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- Ben Dunkelman’s involvement in business was wide-ranging. He served as president of Tip Top Tailors after his father and as president of Cloverdale Shopping Centre. Along with his wife, Yael, he also opened the Dunkelman Gallery for modern art and Dunkelman's restaurant.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of photographs, correspondence, pamphlets and papers documenting Benjamin Dunkelman’s business activities. The files are organized into three sub-series: Tip-Top Tailors, Constellation Hotel, and Dunkelman Gallery.
- Notes
- Physical description: Includes 6 cm of textual records, 5 architectural drawings, and 1 postcard.
- Subjects
- Business
- Physical Condition
- Most photographs are warped.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1985-1986
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Dunkelman's was a restaurant near the corner of Yonge and St. Clair that Ben and Yael Dunkelman opened in the early 1980s. They provided customers with a Californian-style cuisine.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two favourable reviews of Dunkelman’s restaurant from the Toronto Sun and Avenue magazine.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1898, 1941-1988
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records
- 16 photographs
- Admin History/Bio
- David Dunkelman, Benjamin's father, started Tip Top Tailors in Toronto in 1909, and by 1950 it had become a thriving business, with more than 1000 outlets across the country. During the 1930s, Ben had worked for the company, and following the Arab-Israeli War in 1948-49, he returned to Tip Top. He took over as company CEO in the 1950s until the company was sold to Dylex Ltd. in 1967.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of photographs, correspondence and clippings documenting David and Ben Dunkelman's involvement in the family firm, Tip Top Tailors.
- Name Access
- Tip Top Tailors
- Physical Condition
- Most photographs are warped.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1941-1949
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains two clippings from Tip Topics, the magazine published by Tip Top Tailors. The earlier clipping announces that Ben Dunkelman has gone overseas to fight in the Second World War; the later clipping contains a tribute to Rose Dunkelman, who died in 1949.
- 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.
- Physical Condition
- Records are fragile and stained.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [194-?]-[195-?]
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w ; 23 x 33 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File contains three photographs of David Dunkelman in his role as president of Tip Top Tailors.
- 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
- Records are extremely fragile.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains one newspaper clipping announcing Ben Dunkelman's appointment as General Manager of Tip Top Tailors.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- Oct. 1950
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of an issue of the Coronet magazine which contains an article about David Dunkelman and Tip Top Tailors.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1963
- Physical Description
- 10 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photographs documenting the Tip Top Tailors 1963 convention.
- 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.
- Physical Condition
- Records are warped.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains photocopies of newspaper articles from the Globe and Mail, the Telegram and the Toronto Daily Star about Tip Top Tailors.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm and 17 x 22 cm
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains a news clipping and two photographs in connection with David Dunkelman, Tip Top Tailors and Mount Sinai Hospital. Dunkelman took part in opening the hospital's new extension in 1966, along with Marvin Gerstein and Morry Wingold.
- Subjects
- Building
- Hospitals
- 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
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1975-1979
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence, clippings, notes and booklets in connection with the Hall of Fame business awards, which were given at the Canadian Business Leadership Conference on 24 April 1979. David Dunkelman, who had died the year before, was inducted into the Business Hall of Fame.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 9
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- [197-?]-1979
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains clippings, correspondence and one photograph relating chiefly to David Dunkelman's inclusion in the Business Hall of Fame.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Physical Condition
- Photograph is scratched.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Tip Top Tailors sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1898-1988
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of notes and documents Ben Dunkelman wrote or gathered to provide biographical information about David Dunkelman for a Zionist encyclopedia.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Constellation Hotel sub-series sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- architectural drawing
- Date
- [196-?]-1988
- Physical Description
- 39 photographs and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- Ben Dunkelman and Alex Hacker started the Constellation Hotel near Toronto's international airport in 1962. The hotel, at 900 Dixon Road, is now called the Regal Constellation Hotel.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-Series consists of photographs, architectural drawings and papers relating to the Constellation Hotel. These documents were originally organized in a scrapbook. The sub-series also includes a 1988 Toronto Star article referring to Dunkelman, co-owner Alex Hacker and the Constellation Hotel.
- Notes
- Physical description: Includes 2 folders of textual records, 5 architectural drawings, and 1 postcard.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Constellation Hotel sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-2
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- architectural drawing
- Date
- [1962?]-[196-]
- Physical Description
- 39 photographs : b&w & col and other material
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs, a postcard, floor plans and a list of head table guests documenting the construction and opening of the Constellation Hotel. Identified in the photographs are: Ben Dunkelman, Reeve Waffle, Alex Hacker, Richard Nash, J.F. Spragge, William Allen, Monsieur Guy Scalabre, Brian L. Cathcart, Allan Grossman, H. Leslie Rowntree, E.P. Taylor, Bev Lewis, and Reeve R.W. Speck.
- Notes
- Physical description: Includes 1 folder of textual records, 5 architectural drawings and 1 postcard.
- Name Access
- Grossman, Allan, 1910-1991
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Constellation Hotel sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-2
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1988
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains a Toronto Star article about the Constellation Hotel. The article, written by Pat Brennan, mentions Ben Dunkelman and Alex Hacker.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Dunkelman Gallery sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1967-[197-?]
- Physical Description
- 3 folders of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 X 26 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- In 1967, Ben and Yael Dunkelman opened the Dunkelman Gallery near the intersection of Bedford and Bloor streets in Toronto. Intending to provide a forum for contemporary art, the Dunkelmans organized large exhibitions and sculpture shows on the works of such artists as Picasso, Henri, Dubuffet and Davis. The gallery, which ran from 1967 to 1973, championed a variety of art, from the avant-garde to older work by the early Twentieth Century School of Paris painters.
- Scope and Content
- Sub-Series consists of a photograph of Ben Dunkelman and his father at the gallery, a newspaper clipping about the opening of the gallery, and correspondence between Dunkelman and Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek about the possibility of a Picasso museum in Jerusalem.
- Notes
- Associated Material: The Dunkelman Gallery Fonds at the National Archives of Canada consists of 1.5 m of textual and graphic records ranging in date from 1959 to 1979.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Dunkelman Gallery sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-3
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1967
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains one Globe and Mail article about the opening of the Dunkelman Gallery on 3 April 1967.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Dunkelman Gallery sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-3
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1957-1969
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence related to the Dunkelman Gallery chiefly between Ben Dunkelman and Theodore "Teddy" Kollek. Some of the correspondence deals with the possibility of a Picasso museum in Jerusalem.
- Physical Condition
- Records are fragile but in good condition.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- Business series
- Dunkelman Gallery sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 2
- Series
- 3-3
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1968-[197-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains one letter to Ben Dunkelman from Dora Gad, a Tel-Aviv architect, in connection with the Dunkelman Gallery and the possibility of a Picasso museum in Jerusalem. The file also contains one photograph of Ben and David Dunkelman.
- Physical Condition
- The photograph is a little scratched and warped.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Hoffman family fonds
- Business series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 6
- Series
- 1
- Material Format
- architectural drawing
- textual record
- Date
- 1950-1976
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records
- 1 architectural drawing
- Admin History/Bio
- Max Hoffman was the owner of Hamilton Heating and Plumbing and part owner of M. and S. Real Estate Holdings. His partner in the latter company, Sol Hoffman, was also the executor of Max Hoffman's estate. Celia Hoffman was a member of a women's investment club, Iona Share.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of correspondence and cheques relating to Max Hoffman's business Hamilton Heating and Plumbing. Also included are a ledger and the financial statements of the Estate of Max Hoffman and M. and S. Real Estate Holding. In addition, there are legal documents and a newspaper clipping about an investment club, Iona Share.
- Name Access
- Hoffman, Sol
- Hamilton Heating and Plumbing
- Iona Share Investment Club
- M. and S. Hoffman Real Estate Holdings
- Subjects
- Business
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Hoffman family fonds
- Business series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 6
- Series
- 1
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1946-1950
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Max Hoffman's and his partner, M. B. Kam owned a real estate holding company.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of financial material relating to the real estate holding company owned by Max Hoffman and M. B. Kam.
- Name Access
- Kam, M. B.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Hoffman family fonds
- Business series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 6
- Series
- 1
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1966-1976
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Max Hoffman and his partner, Sol Hoffman, owned the M. and S. Real Estate Holding Company. The Estate of Max Hoffman assumed his interest in the company after his death.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of the financial reports of the M. and S. Real Estate Holding Company. The reports contain information about income, expenses, assets and liabilities.
- Name Access
- Hoffman, Sol
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Hoffman family fonds
- Business series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 6
- Series
- 1
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1964-1965
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Celia Hoffman was one of the founding members of the Iona share Investment Club.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a newpaper clipping and a contract relating to the Iona Share Investment Club, which was founded by a group of Jewish women.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Lipa Green fonds
- Business series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 20
- Series
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1934-[196-]
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records documenting Lipa Green's business in the building trades. Included are two business patents, Greenview (later Greenwin) Construction Co. business correspondence and tenders, and financial records.
- Subjects
- Business
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Lipa Green fonds
- Business series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 20
- Series
- 2
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1934-1938
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two business patents Lipa Green filed with the Dominion of Canada Patent Office. One is dated March 1934 and is for "Drain Pipes", and the other, dated Sept. 1938, is for "Fume Safety Lock Pipes and Fume Protectors".
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Lipa Green fonds
- Business series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 20
- Series
- 2
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1948-[196-]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of various documents including the announcement of the opening of a new office of Greenview Construction Co; a legal contract between the Green Construction Co. and the Apter Congregation to build a synagogue on Beverly Street, Toronto; tenders to Greenview for building construction; a land survey of 44 Majestic Court, Lipa's home; and an order book.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Lipa Green fonds
- Business series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 20
- Series
- 2
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1956-1960
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of financial records pertaining to Greenwin Six-Plexes at 48 Meadowbrook Avenue, Toronto. There is a list of buyers who have prepaid a sum of money to secure an apartment.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions