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Oren Shafir and Shari-Lyn Safir - 18 Sep. 2007
- Name
- Oren Shafir and Shari-Lyn Safir
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 18 Sep. 2007
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Oren Shafir and Shari-Lyn Safir
- Number
- OH 306
- Interview Date
- 18 Sep. 2007
- Quantity
- 2 mini DVs ; 2 reference DVDs; 2 archival DVDs
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Notes
- Opening sequence with Oren's daughter, Shari-Lyn.
- Part of Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project
- Availability of other formats: Also available as an M4V video file.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Dr. Oren Hebert Safir (d. May 2013) was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, but lived in Toronto during the Great Depression. He was married to Dorothy Safir (née Goldman) for sixty years and had three children: Jay Safir (Diane), Lansa Parker (Larry), and Shari-Lyn Safir. They also had five grandchildren.
- Affectionately known as the "Big O" to his Thunder Bay friends, Oren led an accomplished life. He was the president of Kiwanis for Western Canada. Always ready with a joke, Oren taught Dale Carnegie and provided chiropractic care for the Fort William Redskins. Oren proudly captured the Canadian amateur heavyweight boxing title in 1946. In 1948, he turned down an offer to go to the Olympic Games to attend chiropractor college. Oren was also an avid cyclist who participated in the 1989 World Masters Games in Denmark and could be seen cycling all over town. In 1987, at the age of sixty, Oren was a member of an eight-man cycling team that undertook a trek to Edmonton to submit Thunder Bay's bid to host the 1994 Commonwealth Games. A facilitator, athlete, enthusiast, and doctor of chiropractic, he demonstrated the attributes of an outstanding athlete for more than half a century. The culmination of these athletic accomplishments was his induction into the Thunder Bay Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.
- Oren's daughter, Shari-Lyn Shafir, is a master gardener, president of the National Canadian Rose Society. and president of the Greater Toronto Rose Society. She was a featured guest speaker at Bolton and District Horticultural Society 2009 meeting. She grows roses in her Toronto garden and at her Thunder Bay cottage. She danced with the Winnipeg ballet for several years as a teenager.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Geographic Access
- Thunder Bay (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories