S.W. Jacobs, K.C., M.P., Draws the Attention of the Members of Parliament to the Fact That Jews Have Been Murdered in Poland Even After the Treaty With Poland Had Been Signed From the Canadian Jewish Chronicle, September 19, 1919 Ottawa, Sept. 12 — Two resolutions calling for approval of compacts entered into by certain of…
Portrait of Walter Winchell (1936)
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Archivist of Gothomania By Hye Bossin From the Canadian Jewish Standard, September 1936 New York’s prize piece of human curiosa is Walter Winchell. He climbed over Shaw, Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt, etc., to top the New York Post’s poll. Suckers stare at him in night clubs instead of the floor show. You are likely to hear…
Bungalow craze has Toronto builders gripped (1922)
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From the Toronto Star Weekly, September 9, 1922 Toronto is becoming a bungalow city. Entire streets of new houses built this summer consist of nothing but one storey, four, five and six roomed bungalows. To sell a new house, real estate men say, you must describe it as a bungalow, even if it is a…
Story of Toronto’s First Telephones (1922)
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They Were Used for Amusement by Dr. A. M. Rosebrugh, Who Secured Instruments from Dr. Bell, Inventor Wires Ran on Poles of Fire Alarm System Dr. Rosebrugh Tested a Line to Hamilton and Started the First Telephone Company in Ontario From the Toronto Star Weekly, September 9, 1922 By Knight N. Day Toronto has had…
Wife versus Secretary (1922)
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From the Toronto Star Weekly, September 2, 1922 Stenographer holds up the mirror to wives If Wives Could Get a Little Office Training Husbands Would Be Better Understood By Mayme Ober Peak In life’s triangles the stenographer seems to play a leading role. The movies and the colourful pens of the fictionist are wont to…
A Toronto map from 1914 (in six easy pieces)
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I often get requests from researchers who have seen their family in the 1901, 1911 or 1921 census of Toronto but can’t find the street they were living on a modern map because the street has disappeared or the name was changed. Where was Buchanan Street? Where was Cuttell Place? Where was Alice Street? Etcetera.…
Holocaust survivor sees photo of family for first time
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From the Canadian Jewish News, October 2013 Some 70 years after he last saw his father, mother, brothers and sisters alive, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Bergen Belsen concentration camp was recently given a photograph of his family for the first time. “When I received this photo, I said, ‘This is better than…
MORE Surnames P to Z plus Index (pages 110 to 150)
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Canadian Jews in World War II, Part I — Decorations (soon available) Pages from the book Canadian Jews in World War II, Part II — Casualties Contents & Surnames A to G (roughly) (pages vii to 29) Surnames H to R (roughly) (pages 29 to 59) Surnames R to Z (roughly) (pages 60 to 84) MORE…
Central Bureau Needed to Identify Criminals (1907)
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From the Toronto Daily Star, May 7, 1907 At the next meeting of the annual conference of the Canadian Chiefs of Police, one of the most important subjects to be discussed is the establishment of a central general bureau for the identification of criminals. At the present time there is no general bureau and the…
Can. Jews in WWII – MORE Surnames A to P (roughly) (pages 85 to 109)
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Canadian Jews in World War II, Part I — Decorations (soon available) Pages from the book Canadian Jews in World War II, Part II — Casualties Contents & Surnames A to G (roughly) This Page (pages vii to 29) Surnames H to R (roughly) (pages 29 to 59) Surnames R to Z (roughly) (pages 60 to…
