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Esther Greenberg, age 7, accidentally shot (1915)

by Bill Gladstone • September 27, 2021

From the Toronto Star, Jan. 15, 1915 Esther Greenberg, a seven-year-old child, was shot by a stray bullet from a rifle practice in Kent Public School on Dufferin Street in Toronto and died the next day. Fifteen targets had been placed in as many public schools around Toronto to aid local army cadets in target…

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Toronto Postcard Gallery

by Bill Gladstone • July 2, 2021

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The Tragic Tale of Simon Abeles

by Bill Gladstone • June 24, 2021

◊ From the Canadian Jewish News, March 2020 As Jews throughout history have been all too aware, tragedy, whether large or small, is never all that distant from the everyday realm of human affairs. This sad chain of events took place in Prague in 1693 and 1694. The central figure was a twelve-year-old boy named…

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Goad’s map of Toronto showing ward divisions, 1910

by Bill Gladstone • June 19, 2019

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The Tragic Tale of Simon Abeles

by Bill Gladstone • June 24, 2021

◊ From the Canadian Jewish News, March 2020 As Jews throughout history have been all too aware, tragedy, whether large or small, is never all that distant from the everyday realm of human affairs. This sad chain of events took place in Prague in 1693 and 1694. The central figure was a twelve-year-old boy named…

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William Fox: forgotten movie mogul

by Bill Gladstone • August 29, 2020

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, in a lavish 1917 production of Cleopatra. No known copy of the film survives. From the Canadian Jewish News, 2019 Although his surname appears in…

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Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World

by Bill Gladstone • April 17, 2019

In his book Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World, Montreal author Marc Raboy points out that Guglielmo Marconi was the Bill Gates or Steven Jobs of his day, and was the world’s first champion of and visionary for not just global wireless communications, but two-way global wireless communications. Although associated primarily with the development…

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OJA exhibit pays homage to Benjamin Brown

by Bill Gladstone • April 2, 2016

From the Canadian Jewish News, February 2016 “Location, location, location,” they say, are the three most important things in real estate. If so, the Ontario Jewish Archives (OJA) has scored a wonderful coup by securing the Urbanspace Gallery in the majestic loft building at 401 Richmond Street West as the venue for an exhibition in…

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Toronto Panorama 1910

Kitty Wintrob, author of I’m Not Going Back

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