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Kate Devor
- Accession Number
- 1989-2-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1989-2-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1895-1966
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of personal documents of Kate Risidore Devor including registration of her birth in 1895 in London, England; immigration inspection card issued at the Port of Quebec (1912); New York State marriage certificate for Harry Devor and Kate Risidore of St. Catharines, Ontario, married in 1914 in Niagara Falls, and their ketubah (Hebrew marriage certificate). As well, there is a newspaper clipping from the St. Catherines Standard of a speech by her son John, correspondence from two of her sons, Sydney and John serving in the military, and clippings and messages of condolence on the death of her son David while fighting in Italy (1944). These include cards and letters from King George of England, George Drew of Ontario, the Toronto War Memorial Committee, and Sam Bronfman, president of Canadian Jewish Congress. Finally there is Jewish National Fund correspondence documenting the planting of a tree by St. Catherines Hadassah in honour of Kate (1933), and a number of trees by Kate in memory of her brother and son (1966).
- Administrative History
- Four sons of Kate and William Harry Devor served in the Canadian forces during the Second World War - David, Berko, John, and Sydney.
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: Digitzed material.
- Subjects
- Canada--Armed Forces
- World War, 1939-1945
- Name Access
- Devor, Kate
- Source
- Archival Accessions