Vancouver
The People's Jewellery Store on Hastings Street, Vancouver, 1913-1918.
The Torah was dedicated in memory of Samual Toban.
Black and white image of Muni Evers. He would later become the Mayor of New Westminster, BC.
Black and white image of four men. Yocklowitz, second on right (store employee); second from left Jacob Goldberg (father of Ann Fromson, Rose Youngson, Elizabeth Weinstein, Miriam Himmerfarb, Myer Goldberg).
The Centre was planned and built under considerable financial difficulty at the beginning of the Great Depression. Pictured are the committee members responsible for bringing the project to fullfillment. L-R: Julius B. Jaffe, Building Chairman; Albert G. Hirschberg; and Max M. Grossman.
Isadore and Hannah Director were prominant in early Prince Rupert and Prince George. The Directors came to Vancouver in 1922 and for over 30 years they were official hosts of the Kitsilano Show Boat, a unique waterfront stage.
The first Vancouver Peretz School opened in 1945 at Thirteenth Avenue and Birch, with the objectives of providing a secular education in Jewish history, literature, culture and traditions with an emphasis on Yiddish (See the Jewish Western Bulletin, 22 September 1960, p. 20). Back L-R: Lil Slobod, Matilda Porte, Rachel Korn, Susie Dodek, Sara Sarkin, Bernice Abramson. Front L-R: Anne Wyne, Sarah Stone, Sara Rubin, Lucy Lacterman, Bunny Braverman, Galya Chud.
Vancouver's oldest extant pharmacy, located at 15 East Hastings Street.
Located in Vancouver's East side at 504 East Hastings, Ferrara Court was the residence of Mary Livingston and many other Jewish families. Mary first met Benny Kubelsky (Jack Benny), a vaudeville performer, at a Passover seder at her family's home at Ferrara Court.
Harry and Dave Toban were the proprietors of Toban's Shoes and Quality Shoe Stores in the Vancouver community.
