Biographical Research Files

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
2003-060/026(11) American Jewish Archives, Walthan, Mass. File
2003-060/026(12) Archives Nationals de Quebec (Montreal) File
2003-060/027(5) "E," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/027(12) "Mc," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/027(14) "N," Miscellaneous -- (2 of 2) File
2003-060/027(15) "O," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/027(19) "T," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/027(20) "U.V," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/028(5) Kavanaugh, N.S; 1822 File
2003-060/028(8) Instructions to Governors - Nova Scotia (+ P.E.I to 1831) File
2003-060/028(10) Chapter 13 New Brunswick File
2003-060/029(7) Oaths File
2003-060/029(9) Oaths File
2003-060/029(10) Oaths - Miscellaneous File
2003-060/029(12) Election to Public Office File
2003-060/029(14) Military File
2003-060/030(2) Notoraries File
2003-060/030(7) St. Eustatius History File
2003-060/030(10) Georgia File
2003-060/030(16) Rhode Island File
2003-060/030(19) Isacks Tennessee File
2003-060/031(2) South Carolina Colonization Plan 1748 File
2003-060/031(6) KKSI - N.Y. File
2003-060/031(11) Court Records File
2003-060/032(1) Shearith Israel - Montreal File
2003-060/033(4) Unfiled Photocopies from National Archives of Canada and Public Archives of Ontario File
2003-060/034(1) Joshua Sharpe Papers File
2003-060/034(3) Bohemia 1745-1748 File
2003-060/003(3) Benjamin, Alfred D. (d.1900) and Frank. File
2003-060/003(4) Binley, Jacob William, d. of cholera, Kingston U.C. June 30, 1832. File
2003-060/003(10) David, Moses, fur trader, b.Montreal 1768, d. Sandwich U.C. 1814 File
2003-060/003(15) Frey, Jacob, Jewish Congregration Anshe-Sholem of Hamilton, 1863. See references to earlier Freys c.1800: Bernard, Phillip, Hannah. File 1863
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(26) Jacobs, Jacob, (b.c.1799), watchmaker in Montreal by 1819, to Kingston by 1821, returned to Montreal c.1823. File
2003-060/003(27) Jacob, Moses, (d.1823) Kingston 1793, Prince Edward County c.1800. File
2003-060/003(28) Jacobs, Samuel Thomas, Port Hope [Jewish ancestry?]. File
2003-060/003(31) Joseph, John, (1801-1851) secretary to Sir Frances Bond Head as Lieutenant Governor. Probably son of Simon Joseph of London. File
2003-060/004(6) Manuel, Emanuel, husband of Miriam Judah of Montreal was a fur trader in the Upper Country c.1780. File
2003-060/004(14) Levy Solomons File
2003-060/005(8) Jacob Franks/John Law, War of 1812. Copies of archival documents: John Lawe papers and other sources. File 1812
2003-060/005(9) Jacob Franks - Business Career. Copies of archival documents: John Lawe papers and other sources. 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
2003-060/006(12) Correspondence with Ken Annett, Quebec City. Researcher on Lawe Family. File
2003-060/007(4) Fur trade Passes, 1761 File 1761
2003-060/007(6) Solomons, Ezekiel, (d.c. 1804, probably at New York). File
2003-060/007(9) Levy, Gershom (n.d.) File
2003-060/008(3) Mackinac Maps File
2003-060/008(12) G. Benjamin File
2003-060/008(13) Benjamin, George File
2003-060/009(2) George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Henry Robert Cohen File
2003-060/009(3) George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Hyam Lewis, Brighton (1769-1851) File
2003-060/009(6) George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Emmanuel Hyman Benjamin (1832-1914) File
2003-060/009(7) George Benjamin General. Includes article in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Obituary, etc. File
2003-060/010(1) Benjamin 1850-1857 File 1850-1857
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
2003-060/011(3) Papers of Sir Mackenzie Bowell (Queen's Univeristy Archives). Bowell, later Prime Minister of Canada, was raised by the Benjamin family and worked at the Intelligencer which he bought from Benjamin. File
2003-060/011(4) David Spector, Hove England. Shared research project on the Jewish community of Brighton, England and the Cohen family. 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
2003-060/011(8) Notes and research for article on "The King vs Moses Gomez and others: Opening the Prosecutor's file over 200 years later" by S&J Godfrey published in 'American Jewish History,' 1992. File
2003-060/012(2) Aaron, Isaac (in Montreal 1832). File
2003-060/012(4) Cohen, Jacob R., in Montreal 1779. File
2003-060/012(6) David, David (1764-1824). File
2003-060/012(8) David, Isaac, (b.c.1808) in Montreal 1839. File
2003-060/012(11) Dr. James Davidson, Quebec, 1770s. File
2003-060/012(15) Franks, David (-1792) in Montreal by 1770s, (brother of John Franks). File
2003-060/013(1) Franks, David Salusbury (b.Halifax 1751-d.Philadephia 1793), son ofj John. File
2003-060/013(8) Hart, Moses (1768-1852). File
2003-060/013(9) Hart, Ezekiel (1770-1843). File
2003-060/013(18) Henry, Elias, Montreal 1763-5. File
2003-060/014(5) Jacob Daughters. Photocopies of Correspondence between Samuel Jacobs and his daughters from the Jacob Papers. File
2003-060/014(13) Henry Hague Judah File
2003-060/015(1) 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. File
2003-060/015(3) 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. File
2003-060/015(5) 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. File
2003-060/015(16) Phillips, Lambert A. a Jewish merchant was in Montreal in 1839. File
2003-060/015(23) Pollock File
2003-060/017(8) Affaires Maritimes File
2003-060/017(11) Affaires Maritimes, Correspondence File
2003-060/017(12) Affaires Maritimes, Miscellaneous File
2003-060/018(2) Local Commerce File
2003-060/018(3) Magasin A&O (Orobio) Hart & Co. File
2003-060/018(4) Hart Papers, Seminaires de Trois Rivieres, Correspondence, 1986-1988. File 1986-1988
2003-060/018(7) Moses Hart, International Affairs, General. File
2003-060/018(11) Affaires Maritimes, Miscellaneous File
2003-060/019(3) Abrahams Family Genealogy File
2003-060/019(5) Israel Abrahams, in Halifax 1750, drowned 1760. File
2003-060/019(9) Jacob Calnek, Anapolis 1784 File
2003-060/019(10) Isaac Da Costa, Annapolis, 1771 File
2003-060/020(7) Samuel Jacobs, (d.1786, St.Denis Quebec)in Halifax by August 1749, possibly considerably earlier. File
2003-060/020(9) Solomon Jacobs, Halifax, 1790s File
2003-060/021(2) Nathum Jones File
2003-060/021(5) Nathan Levy, in Halifax by 1755, m. a Sarah Dunn in an Anglican ceremony, 1759, died at Chester 1773. File
2003-060/021(8) Nathan Nathans, in Halifax by 1750, partner with Naphtali Hart jr. viz. Nathan&Hart. d.Halifax 1778. File
2003-060/021(10) John Solomon, d. Halifax 1788, probably not Jewish. File
2003-060/022(2) Martin E. Herschorn, President, Jewish Historical Society of Halifax, 1987. File View
2003-060/022(7) Nova Scotia Land Grants File
2003-060/022(8) Dr. Ken Donovank, Parks Canada, Fortress Louisbourg File
2003-060/022(14) Joseph De la Penha received grant of most of Labrador from William III in 1697. File