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Book Review: The Rise of the Toronto Jewish Community, by Shmuel Mayer Shapiro

Filed Under Canada By BIll Gladstone on April 1, 2010

Toronto: Now and Then Books, 2010; softcover, 170 pp. Price: $22. Order from <www.now andthenbookstoronto.com>. The Jew in Canada, ed. Arthur D. Hart. Originally published in 1926; abridged facsimile edition Now and Then Books, cost: 2010. softcover, large format, 466 […]

Book Review: One Hundred Years in Canada: The Rubinoff-Naftolin Family Tree

Filed Under Canada By BIll Gladstone on December 1, 2008

One Hundred Years in Canada: The Rubinoff-Naftolin Family Tree, by Bill Gladstone, 2008. $40 (U.S. or Canada) Available at http://rubnaft.com/.   http://www.billgladstone.ca Some books invite exploration from the minute you first set eyes on them. One Hundred Years in Canada […]

Finding Your Canadian Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide, by Sherry Irvine and Dave Obee

Filed Under Canada By BIll Gladstone on April 1, 2008

Finding Your Canadian Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide, by Sherry Irvine and Dave Obee. Softcover, large format, 270 pages. Ancestry Publishing, Provo, Utah. $18.95. Available through Ancestry.com Several Jewish-Canadian historians have done an admirable job in recent decades of demonstrating how […]

Finding Emigrants Who Sailed Under a Different Name

Filed Under Canada, Methods, United States By Stephen Denker on October 1, 2007

After five years of fruitless searching, I finally found the ship manifest for my grandfather and his parents. I had critical help. Someone else actually did it. The method used may be useful to others. A marine historian, Allan Jordan, […]

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