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Cyrel Troster
- Accession Number
- 2015-8-8
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-8-8
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- object
- Physical Description
- 2 folders of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm
- 1 pair of shoes
- Date
- 1958-1994
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the activities of Cyrel Troster and the Edna Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited. Included are lists of elected officers and members for B'nai Brith Women (1970-1971), an invitation to a B'nai Brith Women Covenant Breakfast (1958), an issue of the Zionist student publication "masada" (1977), a schedule for High Holiday services at Darchei Noam (1994), an issue of the bulletin "The Window" of B'nai Israel Beth David Congregation (1977), and an issue of the newsletter "Shirayim" of the Canadian Union of Jewish Studies (1972). Also included are a pair of Edna shoes, a sketch of a shoe, a photograph of shoes, and two templates of shoes documenting the work of the Edna Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited.
- Custodial History
- Cyrel found the shoes at a secondhand store and purchased them.
- Administrative History
- Cyrel's grandfather, Charles Troster, owned the Edna Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited, a shoe factory, in Toronto. Cyrel's father and all of her uncles worked there.
- Subjects
- Business
- Fashion and clothing
- Occupations
- Name Access
- Troster, Cyrel
- Troster, Charles
- Edna Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions