Martin Wolff – Residence
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...
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Louis Fitch – Residence
Louis Fitch (1888-1956) was a lawyer, Zionist activist, and member of the Quebec Legislative Assembly with the Union Nationale party. Born in Suceava, Romania in...
Peter Bercovitch – Residence
Peter Bercovitch (1879 –1942) was a prominent political figure in Montreal’s Jewish community in the first half of the 20th century. His parents were immigrants...
Camp I, Île-aux-Noix
Île-aux-Noix is a small island on the Richelieu River, southwest of Montréal, and the site of historic military fortifications. It was once home to Camp...
Alfred Bader – Camp I
Alfred Robert Bader (1924 – 2018) came to Canada a prisoner. By the end of his life, he had become a distinguished chemist, businessman, and...
Alfred Bader – Wolff Family Home
Alfred Robert Bader (1924 – 2018) came to Canada a prisoner. By the end of his life, he had become a distinguished chemist, businessman, and...
Naches- Gay and Lesbian Jews of Montreal
Naches (1973-1986), meaning pride or joy in Yiddish, founded in 1973, was the first gay Jewish group in Montreal. This was not long after same-sex...
Yakhdav – Organisme des gais et lesbiens juifs de Montréal
Yakhdav, (1992-2004) meaning “together” in Hebrew, was a group created in the 1990s to provide a community space for Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Jews in...
National Headquarters of the Federation of Young Judaea of Canada
The 1920s through the 1940s were the peak years for Montreal’s Zionist youth movements. The non-partisan stance of Young Judaea and its emphasis on Jewish...
National Headquarters of the Federation of Young Judaea of Canada
The 1920s through the 1940s were the peak years for Montreal’s Zionist youth movements. The non-partisan stance of Young Judaea and its emphasis on Jewish...