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Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds
- Part Of
- Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 45
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Date
- 1906-1975
- Physical Description
- 13 cm of textual records
- 42 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 28 cm or smaller
- Admin History/Bio
- Betty Goldstick Lindgren (1892-1984) was a prominent member of several Toronto Jewish social service organizations. She was born in Latvia, the daughter of Sarah and William (Wolf) Goldstick. The couple had ten children. The family came to Canada in 1904 when Betty was a young child. She studied at Phoebe School, and later went on to the University of Toronto and earned her degree in 1919. She began teaching and married a Swede named Karl Tycko Lindgren. They had two children, but only their son, Edward, survived.
- Betty was involved in the Herzl Girls' Zionist Society as well as the Deborah Chapter of Hadassah. She was also a Toronto delegate to the first Canadian Jewish Congress in Montreal, 1919. Her brothers Maurice and Edward owned the E & M Wrecking Building Company. Her sister, Dorothy Dworkin, was a trained midwife and owner of Dworkin Shipping Agents with her husband Henry. Her brother Isadore was a professor at the University of Western Ontario. Her brother David was a lawyer and labour activist. Her other siblings were Emma, Celia, Annie and Jean. Betty passed away on November 6, 1984.
- Custodial History
- The records were donated by Edward Lindgren, Betty's son, in 1978. They were all part of 78-10/1 and included a list of items. Some of the material, such as the books, Jewish newspapers, and magazines have been separated from the fonds and placed into MG 9. The Herzl Girls Zionist Society minutes and records were placed in MG2 J1K shortly after they arrived. A file list of items included in this fonds has been created and is available below. A number of non-Canadian periodicals and books have been removed from the fonds. A list of these items is included with box 54-2-4. Several of these were put aside for auction, and several might be integrated into the OJA's publication holdings at a later date.
- Scope and Content
- The records in this fonds document the life and activities of Betty Goldstick Lindgren. They include correspondence, memorabilia, press clippings, invitations, certificates, programs as well as an autograph book and family record book.
- The fonds also includes family photographs of Betty and the Goldstick family.
- Notes
- The textual records have been placed in acid-free files, with some of the more delicate items in melinex folders.
- Name Access
- Lindgren, Betty Goldstick, 1892-1984
- Related Material
- See Dorothy Dworkin fonds 10.
- Arrangement
- The textual records have been arranged in chronological order into 12 files. The 42 photographs have been described as items. Items 19-23 (photos #1539a-e) form one file (file 13).
- Creator
- Lindgren, Betty Goldstick, 1892-?
- Accession Number
- 1978-10-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions