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Elias Pullan
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 37; Series 9; Item 5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 37
- Series
- 9
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1935]
- Physical Description
- 1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Elias Pullan was born in Telz—a town in the province of Kovno, Lithuania—in 1865. He came to Canada in 1885 and started a waste-paper and scrap business called E. Pullan Limited. He married Bertha Helner in 1890, and, together, they had ten children: Harry, Joe, Emanuel, Gordon, Martha, Dorothy, Bessie, Rita, Jennie and Helen. Elias Pullan was the president of the kehillah in Toronto and president, treasurer, and parnas of Goel Tzedec Synagogue. He was also the founder and first president of the Simcoe Street Talmud Torah.
- Scope and Content
- Image is of Elias Pullan.
- Name Access
- E. Pullan Limited
- Pullan, Elias
- Subjects
- Businesspeople
- Immigrants--Canada
- Portraits
- 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.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions