York University Libraries Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

File consists of issue no. 6 in the first year of a paper devoted to reporting the debates in the Legislative Assembly, with advertisements for local businesses on the last page.

Letson, Phillip

2005-051/001(4)
File
1841

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Letter from Hannah Mendell to Lydia Howard

2007-062/001(2)
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4 March 1809

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

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

2006-057/001(5)
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8 January 1841

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levi, Joseph, innkeeper, Montreal, 1818.

2003-060/015(2)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levi/Mohr family, including Philip Levi (in Quebec 1836) whose daughter Flora ("Blume") b.c.1841, married Sigismund Mohr (1827-1893) who was responsible for the installation of street lights and other public works in Quebec.

2003-060/015(3)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levy (Levi) Joseph, tailor

2003-060/023(9)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levy Solomons

2003-060/004(14)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levy Solomons Family

2003-060/001(20)
File
1794-1820

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levy, Alexander in Quebec 1832

2003-060/014(15)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levy, Eleazar, (c.1716-1811) Canada's first Jewish Notary Public, was in Quebec by 1760. In 1764 his goods were taken by officers of the British Army during military government and after eleven years of unsucessful lawsuits he went to the Unitied States. He bought land in New York which was later expropriated for the establishment of West Point.

2003-060/015(1)
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Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levy, Gershom (n.d.)

2003-060/007(9)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levy, Isaac, Quebec 1760-1783ff.

2003-060/014(16)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levy, Morden, S. (1824-1863) murdered at Richibuctou.

2003-060/023(10)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Levy, Simon, Montreal 1779-1783.

2003-060/014(17)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Liebschitz, Samuel, founder of Jewsburg, [now known as German Mills] near Preston Upper Canada, 1836.

2003-060/004(5)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Light-tower near Coburg / W.H. Bartlett

2007-062/001(12)
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1841

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

London : Geo. Virtue.

Lloyd's evening post, and British chronicle (London)

2007-062/001(7)
File
6 October 1760

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

File consists of one issue containing official despatches from Major General Amherst regarding the French surrender of Montreal.

Local Commerce

2003-060/018(2)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Lower Canada - Abolition of State Oaths

2003-060/029(2)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Loyalist Research

2003-060/034(2)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Lyons Family

2003-060/001(13)
File
1820

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

"M," Miscellaneous

2003-060/027(11)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Mackinac Maps

2003-060/008(3)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Magasin A&O (Orobio) Hart & Co.

2003-060/018(3)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Manuel, Emanuel, husband of Miriam Judah of Montreal was a fur trader in the Upper Country c.1780.

2003-060/004(6)
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Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Manuel(le), Emanuel David, Montreal and Michilimackinac, 1770s. He had married Miriam Judah older sister to Dorothea who married Aaron Hart.

2003-060/015(4)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Map of Gatling and adjacent mines, Hastings Co., Ontario / by R.H. Stretch, accompanied by Sections of veins on Gatling and adjoining properties

2007-062/001(16)
File
1880

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, vol. IX.

Map of the city of Halifax showing streets and municipal wards

2006-057/002(3)
File
1885

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

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

2007-062/006(11)
File
1874

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

1 map : col. ; 41 x 64 cm.

Maps of Canadian cities and counties

2006-057/002(2)
File
1906, 1920

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

File consists of maps of Halifax, St. John, and Hamilton, 1906, and of the counties of Lambton, Simcoe, Halton, and Prescott and Russell, 1920.

Maps of Canadian cities from the "Atlas of Canada." -- File consists of plates for Quebec, Winnipeg, Vancouver, London, and Ottawa.

2007-062/003(6)
File
1910

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Maritimes. General correspondence etc., relating to Jews in Halifax. Includes map of Halifax and location of Jewish enterprises.

2003-060/022(1)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Marranos of North America

2003-060/032(14)
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Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Marriage

2003-060/031(14)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Martin E. Herschorn, President, Jewish Historical Society of Halifax, 1987.

2003-060/022(2)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Mary Martin, Madison Wisconsin, researcher on John Lawe Papers. Correspondence and copies of archival documents.

2003-060/006(13)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Maryland

2003-060/030(14)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

MASONS

2003-060/032(13)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

"Mc," Miscellaneous

2003-060/027(12)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

McCord Museum Papers

2003-060/032(10)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Michael, George, (c.1835-1889) optician, arrived Toronto about 1866.

2003-060/004(7)
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Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

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

2003-060/004(8)
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Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Michaels, Levy (1723-1815) and Myer (1760-1815). Levy Michaels came to Canada from Long Island about 1765. His son Myer, a fur trader in the "upper country," married Frances, the sister of David, Samuel and Moses David. He is recorded as coming back to Montreal by canoe in time for the High Holidays in 1804. He was awarded the Beaver Club Medal. See Frances Michaels Will.

2003-060/015(5)
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Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Military

2003-060/029(14)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Miscellaneous

2003-060/018(1)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Miscellaneous Correspondence

2003-060/026(9)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Miscellaneous Correspondence

2003-060/026(5)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Miscellaneous Documents

2003-060/001(21)
File
1815-1991

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Miscellaneous: Possible Jewish Settlers

2003-060/004(18)
File

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Montreal daily star

2007-062/006(9)
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1882-1883

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Montreal gazette

2007-062/006(2)
File
6 May 1845

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Montreal herald

2006-057/002(11)
File
9 August 1856

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette

2007-062/006(6)
File
1854-1864

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

File consists of a broken run of the newspaper collected by Sheldon and Judy Godfrey because of the advertisements for various Jewish business people, including C. Solomon & Co., Samuel & Co. (guns), Theodore Hart, Alexander Levey, Jesse Joseph, A. & S. Nordheimer (piano fortes), John Levy, Simon Hart, A. Hoffnung (jeweller), William Benjamin & Co., H. Benjamin & Co. (crystal block importer), M. Bessunger (oil paintings), J.A. Harte (druggist), R.M. Hart (advocate), Silverman's Extract, and Wulff & Co., as well as an advertisement to builders regarding the construction of a synagogue on St. Constant Street.

Montreal Standard Publishing Co. Ltd

2007-062/005(4)
File
ca. 1915

Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

File consists of two broadsides published by the company, the first consisting of photographs of the Canadian Army's gymnastic and police schools in Rockcliffe Camp, with text on the verso devoted to "How Canada went into the war" and an overview of "Ontario war activities," and the second featuring the City of Dundas, Ontario (including photographs of the John Bertram & Sons machine works with an illustrated article devoted to "Prince Edward Island : 'the garden of the Gulf'" on the verso.

Montreal transcript and general advertiser