- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Canadian Overseas Garment Commission series
- Financial records sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 47-5
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1948
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of vendor invoices for goods and services incurred on behalf of the DP tailor project. Expenses account for freight bills, advertising costs, transportation and moving costs, household items, food services, hotel stays, and medical services. Some vendors include The Canadian News, the Canadian Jewish Weekly, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Transfer Co., JIAS, Paramount and Rex hotels, Steinman's Cartage, Stitsky's Importing, Toronto Bedding, Speedy War Surplus, United Bakers, Wilson Hardware, Yolles Furniture, Dr. H. Snitman, Dr. I.M. Cass, Mt. Sinai and Toronto General Hospital.
- Access Restriction
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Vanek fonds
- Personal records series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 1
- Series
- 1
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1913-1954
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of mortgages, assignments of mortgage, chattel mortgage, and an abstract of title from the Newmarket land registry office pertaining to the family farm called Cedar Valley.
- Physical Condition
- Records are good condition.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Vanek fonds
- Personal records series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 1
- Series
- 1
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1945
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Jacob Vanek was the father of David Vanek. He was born in the province of Kiev, Russia in 1880. He married and had five children in Russia and decided to leave for Canada in 1913. He departed with his eldest son Thomas that year and sent for his wife and remaining children in 1914. The youngest two Vanek children, David and Mary, were born in Canada after that time.
- The Vaneks first lived on a farm in Pine Orchard, a community north of Toronto. They moved to Toronto in 1916 and then relocated to Oak Ridges in 1918. Jacob Vanek operated a general store in that area that catered to locals as well as travellers from Toronto who were vacationing nearby or heading north.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a certified copy of Jacob Vanek's naturalization certificate. The original copy was issued on December 13, 1921. In 1945 his son Thomas Vanek requested a certified copy of the certificate be made, so that his wife Anna could attain Canadian/British nationality by virtue of her husband's status as the son of a naturalized Canadian.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Community March for Israel 1994 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-20
- File
- 24
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1993-1994
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains records documenting the budgeting and expenditures for the March. The records include expense reports for January 1993-June 1993 and January 1994-June 1994; a line item budget comparing 1993, 1992 and 1994 expenditures; and invoices for rentals, entertainment hires, supplies and services.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of the file.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Vanek fonds
- Personal records series
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 1
- Series
- 1
- File
- 9
- Item
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca 1939]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Jacob and Jesse Vanek taken in front of the Vanek Grocery and Confectionary Store in Oak Ridges, close to Lake Wilcox, with Joyce Lester who was David Vanek's fiancee at the time.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Solomon Edell fonds
- Deltex Draperies Ltd. and Dodd's Draperies Ltd. series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 4
- Series
- 4
- File
- 24
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1974-1980
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of business cards and invoice stationery from Dodd's Draperies Ltd. as well as some of its suppliers, including Archie Fine and Son Limited, Eastern Textiles, and Barrymore Carpet Distributors Ltd.
- Name Access
- Dodd's Draperies Ltd.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Vanek fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1906-1999
- Physical Description
- 12 cm of textual records
- 10 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- Admin History/Bio
- David Vanek (1915–2008) was born on a farm in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario in 1915. He was the sixth of seven children born to Jacob and Jesse Vanek, Jewish-Russian immigrants from the Ukraine who immigrated to Canada in 1913. The family lived in the Newmarket-Oak Ridges area, where they owned a farm and the Vanek Grocery and Confectionary Store in Oak Ridges. The family also owned Cedarholm Park in Lake Wilcox, which had a bandstand and cottages and sold refreshments. They opened the park specifically for Jews who were being excluded from other nearby social venues. The family also lived in Toronto.
- Vanek completed his elementary school education at Annette Street Public School and attended Richmond Hill High School and Harbord Collegiate. He was admitted to the honour law course at the University of Toronto. In 1936, he graduated with a bachelor of arts in honour law and went on to law school at Osgoode Hall. While in law school he worked for Carswell’s Canadian Law Abridgement and was editor of the Obiter Dicta student publication at Osgoode Hall. He received his bachelor of laws in 1939.
- During the Second World War, Vanek served in the Canadian Intelligence Corps and Field Security in England from 1943 to 1945. Following his military service, he returned to Toronto where he tried private practice briefly before beginning a new career as a lecturer in the newly-created Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He taught a variety of subjects, including legal bibliography, real property, and public international law.
- A community activist, Vanek was the founder of the Lawrence Manor Ratepayers Association. In 1963, he ran for the Ontario Provincial Legislature as a Conservative candidate but failed to win the seat. He was the founder of the Credit Counselling Service of Metropolitan Toronto, which was established in 1965. Vanek was also actively involved in the new Reform congregation Temple Sinai and served as its third president.
- In September 1968, Vanek was appointed to the magistrates' court. A few months later, the Provincial Courts Act came into being and he became a judge of the provincial court's criminal division. Vanek presided over and wrote judgements in many significant cases, including Weightman and Cunningham, involving the residual power of a trial judge to stop unfair prosecution, and Squires, involving the lawful exclusion of cameras from the courtroom. His best-known case was that of Susan Nelles, a nurse who was charged with the death of four babies at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children in the early 1980s. He also served as president of the Ontario Provincial Judges' Association. In 1989, after twenty-one years on the bench, David Vanek retired. A decade later, he published his autobiography, "Fulfilment : Memoirs of a Criminal Court Judge," which documents his life and career.
- David Vanek married Joyce Lester in 1942, and the couple had three children. Vanek died in 2008.
- Custodial History
- The records were donated to the Ontario Jewish Archives by David Vanek in July 2000. The records were used to help with the researching of his autobiography.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of textual records and graphic material that document Vanek's family history and career as a prominent lawyer and provincial court judge in Ontario. The fonds includes family records from Russia, newspaper articles, correspondence and documentation relating to his military service during the Second World War, and press clippings and photographs of his family and community activities. The fonds has been arranged into the following series: Personal records, Military service records, Occupational records, and Community organizations.
- Name Access
- Vanek, David, 1915-2008
- Subjects
- Judges
- Lawyers
- Creator
- Vanek, David, 1915-2008
- Accession Number
- 2000-7-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Vanek fonds
- Personal records series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 1
- Series
- 1
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1906-1914
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of promissory notes and legal papers served by and against Jacob Vanek in Russia, prior to the revolution of 1917.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Vanek fonds
- Community organizations series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 1
- Series
- 4
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1963
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- David Vanek ran for the Conservative Party in the Downsview riding in the 1963 Ontario election. He lost the seat to Vern Singer.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a publicity portrait of David Vanek for the provincial legislature campaign in 1963.
- Subjects
- Portraits
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Mizrachi series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 1
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1936-1938
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Vanek fonds
- Personal records series
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 1
- Series
- 1
- File
- 9
- Item
- 4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 11 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Sam Lester, his father-in-law, was one of the first people in the motion picture business in Toronto. For many years he operated the Doric Theatre on Bloor Street near Gladstone Avenue. David married Sam's daughter Joyce in Toronto in 1942.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of David Vanek with his father-in-law Sam Lester. On the back of the photo David Vanek is described as "Lecturer in Law" as a humorous counterpart to Sam Lester, his father-in-law.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Vanek fonds
- Military service records series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 1
- Series
- 2
- Item
- 1
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1943
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- David Vanek served in the Wireless Wing Corps during the Second World War.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a photograph taken at Camp Borden, Ontario. It includes members of R30B-1 Loader Operators and A9 Wireless Wing Corps.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Koffler Centre of the Arts fonds
- Public Relations series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 100
- Series
- 5
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1976-1977
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting the opening of the YM-YWHA Koffler Centre of the Arts. Included is correspondence with Marvelle Koffler regarding the development of a communications program for the KCOA, and newspaper clippings highlighting the opening and dedication of the KCOA.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Koffler Centre of the Arts fonds
- Public relations series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 100
- Series
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1976-2006
- Physical Description
- 13 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records documenting public relations for the Koffler Centre of the Arts. Included are newpaper clippings reporting on the Koffler Gallery art exhibits, theatre and dance productions at the Leah Posluns Theatre and summer programs for children. Also included are letters to Marvelle Koffler regarding proposed public relations programming for the KCOA, a proposal for outreach and marketing within the community, and a news release announcing the appointment of Lori Starr as the new executive director of the KCOA.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Julius P. Katz fonds
- Reliable Tobacco series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 55
- Series
- 5
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1950-1959
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a collection of miscellany related to the business. Included are: a receipt from Roat's Glass and Mirror Company, a letter from Katz to Toronto-Dominion Bank, 4 copies of a list of tobacco jobbers in Toronto, a catalogue and order form for Parker's pens and a booklet of blank order forms from The Reliable Tobacco Co. Ltd.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Toronto Holocaust Museum series
- Public relations sub-series
- Level
- Sub-series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 28-21
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1977-2009
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records
- 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Sub-series consists of records documenting the public relations work of the Holocaust Centre. Records include meeting minutes, correspondence, press releases, flyers, and Holocaust Centre publications.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- Central Region sous-fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 28-1
- Series
- 7
- File
- 221
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1964
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of lists of guests to an Ambassador's lunch, lists of public relations meetings, photostats of newspaper articles, minutes of meetings and agendas, drafts of letters to the editor and correspondence concerning public relations programming.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- Central Region sous-fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 28-1
- Series
- 7
- File
- 222
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1965
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of correspondence concerning meetings and programmes, lists of guests to a programme on hate, minutes of meetings, notices, speeches and editorial essays, contact lists of journalists, newspaper editors and publishers.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- Central Region sous-fonds
- Subject files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 28-1
- Series
- 7
- File
- 223
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1965-1969
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- The file consists of correspondence between committee members, drafts of opinion editorial essays, press releases, memoranda and a list of public relations committee meetings, and minutes of meetings.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Morris Norman collection
- Franklin family legal documents series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 22
- Series
- 2
- File
- 31
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1916
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file contains invoice statements from Allan Cassels & Defries, Barristers, sent to Henry, Hyman and Simon Franklin detailing the work performed by the barristers. Specific notations include the purchase of 234 Terauley Street, the sale of 410-414 Yonge Street, the lease of the roof at 32 Queen Street West, the Warren Bros. lease, the flood at 410 Yonge Street, the purchase of 175 Terauley Street, and the marriage settlement of Annie Franklin detailing the transfer of her estate to her brothers.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- David Vanek fonds
- Occupational records series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 1
- Series
- 3
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Address delivered by David Vanek at his retirement dinner on 12 January 1990.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Frankel and Draper family fonds
- Carl and Dorothy Frankel photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 104
- File
- 2
- Item
- 24
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1913]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a studio portrait of Dorothy Jacobs (on the right) and her sister Bobbie Jacobs.
- Subjects
- Portraits
- Sisters
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds
- Public Relations Committee series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 31
- Series
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1957-1979
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- The Public Relations Committee was responsible for communicating with the press on issues related to the men's clothing industry, as well as the publication of the trade magazine Threads. They were also in charge of the publicity for the Association's general meetings and seminars.
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of meeting minutes and agendas taken at the Public Relations Committee meetings and the committee's general correspondence, as well as five issues of the committee-produced trade magazine, "Threads".
- Accession Number
- 2008-12-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds
- Executive director series
- Subject files sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 61
- Series
- 1-1
- File
- 61
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1953-1956
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This file contains textual records relating to the family relations workshops held at the YM-YWHA between 1953 and 1956. This includes correspondence, teacher and participant lists, promotional material, program outlines and a teachers handbook.
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Publications and publicity series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 10
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1963, 1972
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a meeting notice and minutes, and a memo regarding Baycrest's public relations program.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds
- Men's Service Group series
- Public Relations and Publicity sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 14
- Series
- 5-6
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1962-1963
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- The Public Relations Committee was responsible for producing the Men's Service Group's publicity material and publications. It later seems to have joined with the Program Committee to form the Program and Public Relations Committee. The primary function of this joint committee was to plan the annual dinner meetings.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a meeting notice and minutes.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
