Police Rushed to Willowvale Park After Ball Game to Restore Order From The Montreal Gazette, August 17, 1933 Toronto August 16…
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Infuriated Toronto Youths Riot Over Showing of Swastika (1933)
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Saving the Babies of Toronto’s Poor—Pure Milk Depots Doing Grand Work (1911)
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From the Toronto Star Weekly, August 26 1911 Enterprise of the Household Economic Association Has Achieved Wonderful Results—Little Ones so…
Toronto had 3,000 cars in 1911 (Star Weekly)
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Hamilton man owned first motor in Canada J.C. Eaton of Toronto Bought the Second – Wonderful Development of the…
Christian missions proselytized Jews in ‘the Ward’
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From the Canadian Jewish News, April 2015 Having recently marked its 25th anniversary, the organization Jews for Judaism continues to counter…
Is Toronto Troubled by ‘Too Much Sunday’? (1914)
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Above: Some 3,500 Torontonians protested at Massey Hall when City Council refused to allow the use of slides at High Park…
Toronto’s oldest building gives way, modern structure to rise (1911)
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Frame Store on South Side of King Street between Yonge and Bay Is Being Torn Down — Quebec Bank Will Erect…
Benjamin Brown: Restoring an architect’s legacy
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From Canadian Jewish News, April 2015 Toronto architect Benjamin Brown (1890-1974) designed many elegant edifices across the city, including the…
Praise & Admiration for Toronto Police (1903)
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TORONTO POLICEMEN ARE MODELS OF POLITENESS Their Clubs Are Merely Ornamental, But They Manage to Enforce the Laws – How a Police…
Exhibition Of 1889 Only One He Missed
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Ex-Alderman Edward Galley Has Been Going to Them Since the Year 1852 HOW C.N.E. HAS GROWN SINCE THE EARLY DAYS…
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Landsmanschaft societies stretched forth their helping hands
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From the Canadian Jewish News, Spring 2015 In a series of articles in the Canadian Jewish News about four decades…
From the DP Camps to Canada via the Tailor Project
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From the Canadian Jewish News, February 2015 In late 1947 and early 1948, representatives of the Canadian garment industry organized…
Mount Sinai Hospital had humble beginnings
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When Dr. Daniel Drucker of Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital receives the US$150,000 Manpei-Suzuki prize for groundbreaking diabetes research this February…
Landsmanshaft and Jewish mutual benefit societies of Toronto
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The following is an abridgement of a talk that Bill Gladstone gave to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto)…
Michael Blume, Toronto’s first Jewish pharmacist (1866)
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From The Jewish Standard, April 1, 1966 The author, in an earlier article, wrote of the career of Mr. Charles…
Cecil Street Reunion: former shul receives plaque
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Back in 1938, two Jewish boys posed for a photo on the steps of Toronto’s Ostrovtzer Synagogue on…
Toronto’s Jewish ‘Unknown Soldier’ from WWI
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◊ An item in the Toronto Star from 1936 explains a certain inscription on a tombstone found at the Pape Avenue…
Obit: Elazar (Louis) Rotenberg, ran steamship agency (d.1936)
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From the Jewish Standard, January 1937 The most remarkable thing about the late Mr. Elazar (Louis) Rotenberg, who died on…
Review: Alison Pick’s Between Gods
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Seven years ago, as Toronto author Alison Pick began researching and writing what would become her prize-winning novel Far to…
Detective Benny Cooperman turns 30 (2010)
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Some thirty years ago, writer Howard Engel gave the world Benny Cooperman, a new made-in-Canada literary detective whom the Globe and Mail and others would acknowledge as “the country’s first truly Canadian detective hero.” According to Cynthia Good, former senior editor at Penguin, Engel’s pioneering Canadian-Jewish detective opened the floodgates for scores of other Canadian…
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Resources for Genealogists All searchable/viewable on this site (links below) Searchable Databases >> Births (1907-1917) Marriages (range 1905 to 1936) Deaths (1939-1942) Books, Maps & Nominal Lists >> McCaul Street Synagogue Anniversary Booklet, 1938 Canadian Jewry: Prominent Jews of Canada (1933) Canadian Jews in WWII (1948) Hebrew Sick Benefit Society Souvenir Booklet (1935) Map…
