Biographical Research Files

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
2003-060/017(4) Records from National Archives Trust Fund Board File
2003-060/017(6) Fournisseurs Des Hart (Samuel) File
2003-060/018(1) Miscellaneous File
2003-060/018(3) Magasin A&O (Orobio) Hart & Co. File
2003-060/018(6) Affaires Aaron Art and Sons File
2003-060/018(9) Judicial Papers, Lawyers. File
2003-060/018(10) Affaires Maritimes, Le Hart File
2003-060/018(13) International Commerce, Affaires Maritimes, Miscellaneous File
2003-060/019(1) Industries File
2003-060/019(9) Jacob Calnek, Anapolis 1784 File
2003-060/019(10) Isaac Da Costa, Annapolis, 1771 File
2003-060/019(11) John Franks, was the first name on the Halifax Allotment, August 1749, left for Philadelphia by 1758, in Quebec by 1760. File
2003-060/020(6) Captain David Hays, 3rd Battalion Royal Regiment of Artillery, in Halifax, 1761, probably not Jewish. File
2003-060/020(12) "Jones Wharf" Halifax Harbour, built with Robert Campbell, 1758. File
2003-060/020(13) Mordecai Jones, son of Joseph and Judith Jones, d.1770 Halifax. File
2003-060/021(2) Nathum Jones File
2003-060/021(6) Joshua Maugher, (1725-1788) an industrialist, was a member of the early Nova Scotia establishment. Contrary to the evidence, some historians insist he was of Jewish ancestry. File
2003-060/021(10) John Solomon, d. Halifax 1788, probably not Jewish. File
2003-060/021(11) Halifax--Possible Jewish Background File
2003-060/022(5) Nova Scotia Working File, Misc.Correspondence and Lists. Includes, Photocopy of article by C. Bruce Fergusson, provincial archivist, "Jewish Communities in Nova Scotia" Province of Nova Scotia, Journal of Education, October 1961. pp.45-8. Photocopy of mss.article by Jan Goeb on "The Maritime Jewish Community [c.1975] for the Jewish Historical Society, Halifax. File
2003-060/022(8) Dr. Ken Donovank, Parks Canada, Fortress Louisbourg File
2003-060/022(15) New Brunswick General File including correspondence with: Registrars of Deeds for Kent County, Northumberland County; Public Library, Richibuctou; Old Manse Library, Newcastle N.B.; New Brunswick Museum, St.John; Probate Court Division, N.B. Department of Justice; Lands Branch, Ministry of Natural Resources, N.B.(original land grants). File
2003-060/023(5) Gabel, Davey (c.1732-1816) baker, b.Frankfort am Main, to N.B. 1783 as a loyalist. File
2003-060/023(6) Jacobs, Joseph, Gagetown, 1784. File
2003-060/023(8) Joseph, Maurice (Morris), Chatham 1824, Richibuctou 1840s. File
2003-060/023(11) Myers, Rachel Abraham and Benjamin and Mordechai, to Gagetown 1783. See also Myers, (Montgomery), Juda or Judith, (1759-1831). File
2003-060/023(20) Samuel, Michael, jr.d.1857, in Richibuctou 1816-38, first cousin of Michael Samuel. File
2003-060/024(2) Semlim Franklin File
2003-060/024(7) Completed Wills File
2003-060/024(9) New York Historical Society File
2003-060/024(10) England Research on the Jews Who Had Their Roots Their File
2003-060/024(13) Institut Genealogique Drouin File
2003-060/025(6) National Archives of Canada, 199L/3 File
2003-060/025(16) Canadian Jewish Congress/Archives File
2003-060/025(17) Shaar Hashomayin Synagogue File
2003-060/025(18) N.E.U.S. File
2003-060/026(3) Charles Tucker, researcher, London, England File
2003-060/027(1) "A," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/027(11) "M," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/027(13) "N," Miscellaneous -- (1 of 2) File
2003-060/027(16) "P.Q," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/028(3) Research File - Newfoundland File
2003-060/028(6) Nova Scotia - Abolition of State Oaths File
2003-060/029(2) Lower Canada - Abolition of State Oaths File
2003-060/029(9) Oaths File
2003-060/029(10) Oaths - Miscellaneous File
2003-060/029(14) Military File
2003-060/030(4) Barbados File
2003-060/030(6) West Indies Jews File
2003-060/030(11) Norfolk, Virginia File
2003-060/030(16) Rhode Island File
2003-060/031(1) South Carolina File
2003-060/031(2) South Carolina Colonization Plan 1748 File
2003-060/031(5) New York Records - AJHS File
2003-060/031(11) Court Records File
2003-060/032(2) Cemetaries File
2003-060/032(8) Guilds File
2003-060/032(10) McCord Museum Papers File
2003-060/032(12) Municipal Restrictions ("freedom of the city") File
2003-060/032(14) Marranos of North America File
2003-060/032(15) Anti-Semitism File
2003-060/033(3) Unfiled Photocopies from National Archives of Canada and Public Archives of Ontario File
2003-060/033(4) Unfiled Photocopies from National Archives of Canada and Public Archives of Ontario File
2003-060/034(2) Loyalist Research File
2003-060/034(3) Bohemia 1745-1748 File
2003-060/003(5) Braham, Alfred, Clothier, Toronto, (1844--). File
2003-060/003(6) Cohen, Fredrick, artist, Woodstock U.C. prior to 1837. File
2003-060/003(9) Davids, Isaac, York, 1819. File 1819
2003-060/003(12) Diamond, Abraham, b. Prince Edward County, 1828. (Identified by a descendant as Jewish). File 1828
2003-060/003(17) Hart, Benjamin, of Montreal (1779-1852), son of Aaron and Dorothea Hart. Business in York 1833 with his sons. File 1779-1852 View
2003-060/003(18) Hart, Henry, son of Benjamin Hart, in Kingston, 1835. File 1835
2003-060/003(20) Hart, Samuel P., 1837 patriot, owner of the "Plain Speaker" Cobourg and Belleville. File 1837
2003-060/003(21) Hart, Simeon and Harry of New Brunswick to Upper Canada, 1817. File 1817
2003-060/003(23) Head, Sir Francis Bond, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada during the 1837 Rebellion whose Grandfather was Moses Mendes (d.1758) File
2003-060/003(25) Jacobs, Ferdinande, (1713-1783), chief factor of Hudson's Bay Company Post at Fort York c.1750. No record of his [Jewish] religion has been traced in the HBC Archives" according to his biographer Shirlee Anne Smith [D.C.B. vol.pp 383-4]. Captain John Rogers diary referred to his daughter as offspring of "Jacob (a Jew)." File
2003-060/003(27) Jacob, Moses, (d.1823) Kingston 1793, Prince Edward County c.1800. File
2003-060/003(29) Thomas Jacobs, Governor of HBC, 1696 File 1696
2003-060/003(33) Judah, Emmanuel, an American Actor who with his wife performed at Franks' Theatre in York in 1826. File
2003-060/004(8) Michaels, Levy (1723-1815) and Michaels, Myer (1760-1815) Montreal fur traders who spent time in the "Upper Country" [Upper Canada]. File
2003-060/004(10) Moss, Sgt. Samuel, of the King's Royal Rangers was granted land beside Myers Solomon near Cornwall in 1797. File
2003-060/004(14) Levy Solomons File
2003-060/006(6) Franks, Appolonia Sophia, (1817-1886), Windsor/Sandwich, daughter of Jacob Franks and Therese La Guere dit La Rose. File
2003-060/006(9) James Aird (d. 1819). Joined Jacob Franks, Robert Dickson, Allan Wilmot and George Aird in Dickson&Co.,a fur trade partnership at Michilimackinack, August 1804. File
2003-060/007(12) Terroux (Therousse), Jacques or James (c.1766-1792) was a son of Levy Solomons the fur trader and Lizette Loubiere (d. 31 Dec. 1772). File
2003-060/008(7) Correspondence with William L. Clements Library University of Michigan, repository of the Notorial Instrument evidencing the purchase of the Solomons/Levy house, 1863. File
2003-060/008(8) Drummond Island/St. Joseph's Island/Penetanguishene. The British Loyalists who inhabited Mackinac Island were obliged to leave by the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812. In 1815 they moved to Drummond Island which the British subsequently agreed, was in American territory. The British settlers left their new home in 1826 and reestablished themselves at Penetanguishene and St. Joseph Island. File
2003-060/008(9) David David and Company File
2003-060/009(5) George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Benjamin Family Records--Copies from Nancy Cooper File
2003-060/009(9) George Benjamin/Thomas George Joans. Joans, and Englishman who arrived in New Orleans about 1830, was editor and proprieter of the Mercantile Advertiser, and married Isabella the daughter of Levi Jacobs on 5 May 1832. He left New Orleans by March 1834. Benjamin, and Englishman who was later founder of the Belleville Intelligencer, arrived in New Orleans about 1830, and married Isabella, the daughter of Lipman Jacobs 5 Febrary, 1832. He left New Orleans and arrived in York, U.C. by the end of 1833. File
2003-060/009(11) Belleville/Thurlow, 1830s File 1830s
2003-060/009(13) Hastings County Records -- 1850s. Benjamin was Warden of Hastings County. File 1850s
2003-060/010(1) Benjamin 1850-1857 File 1850-1857
2003-060/010(4) George Benajamin, Orange Lodges File
2003-060/010(5) George Benjamin, Judaism File
2003-060/010(7) Susannah Moodie. Moodie wrote "Richard Redpath a Tale" the main character of which is based on a hostile portrayal of George Benjamin. It was published by Richard Bentley in 1853 as part of 'Matrimonial Speculations' File
2003-060/010(8) Correspondence, George Benjamin/John A. Macdonald Letters. (1856-1864). Includes photocopies and typescripts of letters from all sources including those privately held. Typescripts and copies of letters to and from others. File
2003-060/010(11) Benjamin Land. Title documents of lands owned by Benjamin in Canada West, including searches, copies of abstracts, instruments and plans. File
2003-060/011(2) Source institutions: Kingston Public Library, National Archives, Public Archives of Ontario. File
2003-060/011(5) David Spector, Hove England. Shared research project on the Jewish community of Brighton, England and the Cohen family. File
2003-060/011(6) Flyer soliciting subscriptions for "Who Was Who in Canadian Jewry, 1749-1840" File