Category: Communal

220 exhibits found

Alfred Bader – Camp I 1940-1941

Alfred Bader – Camp I

1 61e Av, Île-aux-Noix

Alfred Robert Bader (1924 – 2018) came to Canada a prisoner. By the end of his life, he had become a distinguished chemist, businessman, and...

Martin Wolff – Residence 1925-1948

Martin Wolff – Residence

442 Argyle, Westmount

Martin Wolff (1881-1948) was an engineer, journalist, and an early community historian of Canada’s Jews. Born on December 16, 1881, in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, Wolff was...

Camp I, Île-aux-Noix 1940-1943

Camp I, Île-aux-Noix

Le Camp I de l’Île-aux-Noix ouvre ses portes le 15 juillet 1940 alors qu’arrivent 273 réfugiés juifs. Un ancien prisonnier se souvient que, aux yeux...

Alfred Bader – Camp I 1940-1941

Alfred Bader – Camp I

Alfred Robert Bader (1924 - 2018) est arrivé au Canada en tant que prisonnier. Homme distingué à la trajectoire diversifiée, il fut chimiste, homme d'affaires...