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Abraham Andrews, in Halifax 1751-1756, brother in law of Israel, Isaac and Emmanuel Abrahams.

David Jones, son of Joseph and Judith Jones, innkeeper, owner of "The Halfway House to Horton," d. 1782 Hfx.

Isaac Judah, signed name in Hebrew as witness to will of Isaac Levy, Halifax, 9 March, 1750.

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.

Myer Myers, (son of Hyam Myers of Quebec & New York) in Halifax, 1786.

Halifax--Possible Jewish Background

N.S. Summaries, Registry of Deeds, Halifax County , 1749-1799, correspondence with the Department of the Attorney General, Nova Scotia.

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.

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.

Cape Breton, Fortress Louisbourg, Jews during the French Regime: Family of Michel Rodrigue and family of Abraham Gradis.

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).

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).

Joseph, Maurice (Morris), Chatham 1824, Richibuctou 1840s.

Samuel, Joseph (1786-1862), brother of Michael, and Phoebe Samuel (1771-1867), in Chatham to 1857.

Samuel Samuel J. 1812-1890, son of Joseph and Phoebe Samuel.

Samuel, Michael, jr.d.1857, in Richibuctou 1816-38, first cousin of Michael Samuel.

Archives Nationale de Quebec (Quebec)

Archives Nationale de Quebec (Montreal)

National Archives of Canada, 1987

National Archives of Canada, PICTON

Ottawa

Charleston, S.C.

Public Archives of Ontario

Evelyn Miller, former archivist, Canadian Jewish Archives

Miscellaneous Correspondence

American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OHIO

"A," Miscellaneous

"C," Miscellaneous

"D," Miscellaneous

"G," Miscellaneous

"H," Miscellaneous

"K-L," Miscellaneous

"M," Miscellaneous

Correspondence in Lawe Papers -- (2 of 2)

Lower Canada - Abolition of State Oaths

Province of Canada

Instructions to Governors - O.S.

Election to Public Office - Ezekiel Hart elections

Jews Appointed to Canadian Juries

Judicial Appointments

Barbados

The Constitutions in America

Norfolk, Virginia

Maryland

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

Simon Valentine (Valentijn) Vander-Wilden

Kimber CSSN 1834

General

British State Oaths Legislation; 18th Century

McCord Museum Papers

Catholic [Emmancipation]

MASONS

Unfiled Photocopies from National Archives of Canada and Public Archives of Ontario

"The Examiner," Toronto, July 27th, 1842.

"The Victoria Gazette," Victoria, Vancouver Island, June 25, 1859.

"The Montreal Witness," October 16, 1873.

Letter from Henry J. Noad, Quebec, to Michael Samuel, Miramachi, regarding loss of cargo with the sinking of the schooner "Eclipse"

Action on anti-Semitic incidents in Toronto

Pamphlets from the Goel Tzedec congregation, University Avenue, Toronto

Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity

Engravings of Oliver Cromwell, King George III, the Duke of Cumberland, and the Battle of Waterloo

A sett of quadrilles / Chs. F. Hausman

Montreal herald

Calling card for Charles Bradlaugh

Advertising trade cards

The Quebec gazette

Plan of the town of William Henry

Caledonian mercury (Edinburgh)

Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette

The leader (Toronto)

Map to illustrate the climatology of the dominion of Canada / by Lorin Blodget

Hays Family

Lyons Family

Cohen Family Postcards: a glimpse in the life of Montreal's Jewish "West Enders"

Documents relating to W. Earl Rowe

Cohen, Fredrick, artist, Woodstock U.C. prior to 1837.

Davids, Isaac, York, 1819.

Dessauer, Louis Woolf, Daguerrotype Artist, in Waterloo, Kitchener and Toronto from 1841. Appears in the THC Records in 1862. May have been the Captain Dessaur who died at Chancellorswille, 1864.

Hart, Moses, of Three Rivers(1768-1862)son of Aaron and Dorethea Hart. Attempts to own land in Upper Canada, 1797-1800.

Hart, Simeon and Harry of New Brunswick to Upper Canada, 1817.

Thomas Jacobs, Governor of HBC, 1696

Joseph, Gershom A. (1821-1893) of Montreal, student of Upper Canada College in Toronto 1836-1839.

Judah, Sarah married James Vickers of Toronto in St.James Anglican Church in 1838. John Manuel was a witness.

Charles Kohen

Koenig (King), Joseph and Charles, to Whitby, Canada West, 1863. Samuel King was Ontario's first Jewish lawyer.

Michaels, Levy (1723-1815) and Michaels, Myer (1760-1815) Montreal fur traders who spent time in the "Upper Country" [Upper Canada].

Moss, Sgt. Samuel, of the King's Royal Rangers was granted land beside Myers Solomon near Cornwall in 1797.

Rossin, Marcus, Samuel and Julius. M. Rossin & Bro. jewellers, est'd in Kingston U.C. in 1832, moved to York in 1843, built in Rossin House Hotel in 1855 (destroyed by fire 1862).

Toronto Hebrew Congregration (1858-1878) --Marriage Records (Typescript.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography - Article on Jacob Franks by SJG. Four(4)files containing correspondence, drafts, redrafts and copies of the final article and footnotes.

Jacob Franks from 1794-1804. Copies of archival documents: John Lawe Papers and other sources.

Franks, William (d. by 1850) second child of Jacob Franks and Therese La guere dit La Rose.

Lawe, John (1779-1846) the son of Rachel Franks of Montreal and Capt. George Lawe. A fur trader with his uncle Jacob Franks he was recorded in Yrk. He died in Green Bay. See John Law Papers, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison.