Review of The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox, by Vanda Krefft Theda Bara (nicknamed ‘The Vamp’), one of Fox’s biggest stars,…
Hamilton man owned first motor in Canada J.C. Eaton of Toronto Bought the Second – Wonderful Development of the…
From the Canadian Jewish News, April 2015 Having recently marked its 25th anniversary, the organization Jews for Judaism continues to counter…
Above: Some 3,500 Torontonians protested at Massey Hall when City Council refused to allow the use of slides at High Park…
Frame Store on South Side of King Street between Yonge and Bay Is Being Torn Down — Quebec Bank Will Erect…
From Canadian Jewish News, April 2015 Toronto architect Benjamin Brown (1890-1974) designed many elegant edifices across the city, including the…
TORONTO POLICEMEN ARE MODELS OF POLITENESS Their Clubs Are Merely Ornamental, But They Manage to Enforce the Laws – How a Police…
Ex-Alderman Edward Galley Has Been Going to Them Since the Year 1852 HOW C.N.E. HAS GROWN SINCE THE EARLY DAYS…
Photo: Section of the Ward, ca 1910s, from Louisa & Albert Streets at lower left, the Armouries at centre, and…
Ambitious in scope and masterful in execution, Allan Levine’s panoramic portrait of our city from its beginnings to the present…
◊ The following articles describe a tragedy that unfolded in Toronto’s Jewish district on Adelaide Street West near Spadina in…
From the Canadian Jewish News, April 5, 2014 Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew, by Stuart Ross (ECW Press) I hadn’t heard of…
TORONTO SAGES is a booklet compiled and published in 2004 by Mayer S. Abramowitz, a grandson of Toronto cantor Nosson…
From the Canadian Jewish News, April 1, 1977 Sarah Gitel Salsberg, long a colourful, vivacious figure in the Toronto Jewish…
A look back at the CJN from 40 years ago: From the Canadian Jewish News, March 6, 1974 Spry Ben…
From Beth Sholom Bulletin, Fall 2012 In 1933, Toronto residents Philip and Sally Latchman were surprised by the birth of…
From the Canadian Jewish Chronicle, November 11, 1938 Rebbetzin Lifsha Gordon, wife of the late Rabbi Jacob Gordon, died, after…
From the Globe and Mail, April 18, 1908 Objecting to a Reference to Kosher Meat, Shier Herman Pulled Rabbi Levi…
◊ The Jew in Canada (first published 1926) offers hundreds of personal profiles as well as history capsules of Jewish communities…
From the Toronto Evening Telegram, April 1919 Thirty-nine years ago up on the the old grounds in Queen’s Park, near where now stand the Parliament Buildings, the Clipper Baseball Club performed. That was in 1880, a long time ago, it is true, but not too long for even some of the present day “regulars” to…
From The Toronto Telegram, Tuesday December 23, 1969 ◊ Note: this editorial from 50 years ago is notable for several reasons. First, it reminds us that the perennial Western impulse towards “even-handedness” (and being an “honest broker”) is as faulty as the impulse of a parent to treat two sons identically, though one be well-behaved and…
A WONDER WOMAN AT MASSEY HALL Helen Keller Spoke to Large Audience Who Were Spellbound. HER FAMOUS TEACHER Mrs. Macey Taught Blind, Deaf Mute to Speak and Hear. From the Toronto Star Weekly, January 1914 A magnificent audience almost filled Massey Hall last night, attracted by the appearance of Helen Keller and her almost as…
From the Toronto Star, 1900 Character Sketches Among the Throngs Who Travel Up and Down in the Big Departmental Stores of Toronto David Harum, who said, when striving with his rich friend, that many a wealthy man would duck his head instinctively at the cry, “beware bridge,” knew what he was talking about, for nearly…
From the Canadian Jewish News, February 2019 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan B Peterson (Random House Canada) Jordan Peterson is a professor of psychology, most recently at the University of Toronto, with a thorough grounding in scientific literature, particularly in the biological sciences, psychology, and the nature of the human…
◊ An item in the Toronto Star from 1936 explains a certain inscription on a tombstone…
Seven years ago, as Toronto author Alison Pick began researching and writing what would become…
Angell and Janey Lester (nee Alexander) were living in this house at 4 Radnor Rd.,…
From The London Jewish Chronicle, March 20, 1931 ◊ This shocking tale from the height of…
Some time in the late 1940s or 1950s, when my aunt and uncle moved from…
The late eminent American genealogist Rabbi Malcolm Stern once observed that there is nothing so…
Review of KRAKOW: A Guide to Jewish Genealogy, by Geoffrey M. Weisgard in association with…
TORONTO SAGES is a booklet compiled and published in 2004 by Mayer S. Abramowitz, a…
Genie Milgrom, the author of My 15 Grandmothers, was one of numerous captivating speakers at…
From the Canadian Jewish News, October 2013 Some 70 years after he last saw his…
Born as Tsvi Hirsh Glicenstein in Konin Poland about 1872, my great-grandfather came to London…
The photo shows the opening session of the 33rd international conference on Jewish Genealogy taking…
From The Star Weekly, July 5, 1913 Not long ago, a woman was caught red-handed…
From The Toronto Evening Telegram, May 6 1912 Note: This article describes the surprisingly high…
In this riveting page-turner that reads like a murder mystery thriller, Erik Larson resurrects the…
From the Toronto Daily Star, May 7, 1907 At the next meeting of the annual…
From the Canadian Jewish Chronicle, September 5, 1919 A very interesting decision was handed down…
From the Toronto Star, September 8, 1938 Charges of petty thieving by peddlers were today…
From the Toronto Star, November 4, 1909 ◊ This article reflects two problems sometimes faced by…
◊ The following newspaper stories tell of young Joseph Gurofsky’s rise from assessment clerk to bank…
Prelude: Bessie (Besha) Starkman, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, married baker and driver Harry Tobins…
Birchall Dropped a Cigar Case, Which Was His Undoing — Jardine Talked Too Much —…
THE following feature profile of Jacob Cohen, a retired Toronto businessman who became Toronto’s first…
From Toronto Star Weekly, February 12, 1916 The Jewish Free School at the corner of…
From the Toronto Star Weekly, March 1914 “When constabulary duty’s to be done, A policeman’s lot…
From the Toronto Star Weekly, February 21, 1914 Small Sums risked by Regulars in Public…
From The Globe and Mail, July 28, 1921 ◊ The writer of this sympathetic and thoughtful…
