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Holding Institution: Library and Archives Canada

  1. Emil L. Fackenheim sound recordings [sound recording]

    Series consists of sound recordings documenting lectures, talks, seminars and broadcasts given by Emil Fackenheim. Included is an address given by Fackenheim at Jerusalem Hall, Zionist Centre, Toronto, on the "Aliyah Today" movement and the attitudes of Jewish people to Israel; addresses by Professor Fackenheim to Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto, for the High Holy Days, September 1985; philosophy lectures; new public lectures; speeches and lectures delivered by Emil Fackenheim at the University of Toronto; speeches, lectures and assorted seminars given by Emil Fackenheim; lecture series by Emi...

  2. Audiovisual Recordings [moving images, sound recording]

    This series consists of audiovisual recordings created and maintained by the Hon. Marcel Prud'homme, which document his parliamentary career. The series includes mainly recorded broadcasts in which Prud'homme is speaking or giving an interview either in Parliament or at a broadcasting station. The recordings include Senate debates on various issues, notably Palestine; Prud'homme's being called to the Senate; career retrospectives; comments on current political events; interviews; and talk shows and call-in shows, especially with Quebec hosts Gilles Proulx, Jean LaPierre, and Michael Jasmin....

  3. Leases: N.C.C. Property: Ottawa-Hull

    File contains material regarding The Mill restaurant strike; a National Holocaust Memorial at Ottawa, Ont.; The Penguin Theatre Company, Ottawa, Ont.; Tin House Court, Ottawa, Ont.; official residence Stornoway; the Ottawa School of Art; the Israeli Embassy, Ottawa, Ont.; the Canadian Red Cross Society, Ottawa, Ont.; the Daly Building, Ottawa, Ont.; the Old Carbide Building, Ottawa, Ontario; Housing in Ottawa. 1 list of "Restaurants"; 1 list of "N.C.C.. Business Leases in the National Capital Region"; 1 "Chronological History 35 George Street, Ottawa" (Sept. 1978-Sept. 1982); 1 list of "Res...

  4. Herbert Steinhouse fonds [textual record, graphic material]

    The fonds consists of the personal papers and photographs of Herbert Steinhouse, documenting his life and work as a journalist, broadcaster, novelist and CBC producer and executive. It includes material relating to his service with the RCAF; education at McGill University and the New School for Social Research; involvement with the Oskar Schindler story; work as a freelance correspondent in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s; participation in the United Nations' special publicity mission to Southeast Asia in 1952; employment by Unesco as the editor-producer of its "World Review" weekly radio prog...

  5. Photographs and illustrations [graphic material]

    Series consists of photographs relating to Rabbi Bulka's life and career and depict views of his work with the Jewish community in Ottawa; Rabbi Bulka's first group tour of Israel, May 1979; his visit to the Star of David Hebrew School, Israel, October 1986; Karen and Ian Zunder's wedding, 1986; Yosef Meier's Bar Mitzvah, Los Angeles, 1988; Charithon Softball Marathon for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, 1990; Rabbi Bulka metting Mayor Jim Durrell and Mrs. Durrell, Ottawa, n.d.; attendance at Citizenship Court; a protest rally for Soviet Jewry; Inaugural North American Or...

  6. Correspondence and subject files [textual record, graphic material]

    Series consists of general correspondence, 1957-1986; correspondents include Stephen and Erika Barber, Ota Hora, Meyer Gasner and Ben Kayfetz concerning Joseph Kirschbaum, Alexander Kraus, Erich Kulka, Elliott Levine and the Canadian Association for Ethiopian Jews and Jacob M. Lowy; newsletters of the International Council of Jews from Czechoslovakia, 1972-1980 and correspondence with its president, Karl Baum, 1972-1976; files relating to Dr. Rosenberg's resolution passed by the Canadian Jewish Congress 21st Plenary Assembly in 1986 asking for the return of Judaic treasures to the Jewish Pe...

  7. Philatelic issues of 1995, Design and production [philatelic record, graphic material]

    The sub-series consists of records related to the design and production of the following 1995 philatelic issues: Masterpieces of Canadian Art (Alfred Pellan) - 8 (12 Apr.), Canadian Flag (1 May), Fortress of Louisbourg (5 May), Historic Land Vehicles - 3 (26 May), Canada Day: Group of Seven (29 Jun.), Manitoba (14 Jul.), Fruit Trees (31 Jul.), Queen Elizabeth II (31 Jul.), Migratory Wildlife (15 Aug.), The Arctic (15 Sept.), United Nations, 1945-1995 (24 Oct.), Christmas (2 Nov.), La Francophonie (6 Nov.), The Holocaust (9 Nov.). Sub-series also consists of a sketchbook of design submission...

  8. USA [textual record, graphic material]

    Sub-series containing correspondence with, among others, German Jewish Representative Committee, World Jewish Congress, Hebrew Union College Union of Jews from France, Location Service - American Jewish Congress, Institute of International Education, The Nation, Music Press, Inc, National Council of Jewish Women, University of Rochester, Aufbau Reconstruction, Library of Congress, University of Chicago Press, Herbert A. Strauss (International Biographical Archives and Dictionary of Central European Emigrés, 1933-45), Westchester Symphony Orchestra, American Bandmasters Association Foundatio...

  9. April

    This file is arranged by event and pertains to the following events: the North American Leaders' Summit (NALS) in Washington, DC, USA (1-2 April 2012); Easter weekend in Calgary, AB (5-9 April 2012); the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, and bilateral meetings in Santiago, Chile (13-17 April 2012); an announcement on financial support for the families of missing and murdered children in Sherbrooke, QC (20 April 2012); the National Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, ON (23 April 2012); and a Vaisakhi celebration on Parliament Hill in Ottawa,...

  10. Jewish Labour Committee of Canada fonds [textual record, graphic material, sound recording]

    Fonds consists of office files, photographs, sound recordings, posters, and other records created, accumulated, and used by the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada and its successive national directors, including material relating to the following: meetings, finances and correspondence of the JLC; regional offices in Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg; correspondence with labour and government; printed materials; and JLC human rights and labour committees across Canada. The photographs in the fonds depict the activities of the Jewish Labour Committee in Montreal and Ottawa, 1941-1970. Sound recor...

  11. League studies [textual record]

    Series consists of records on research on solutions to national and global problems. Special study projects and programmes included the following: police-community relations (correspondence and memoranda and articles chiefly by Sol Littman); religious education in the schools (correspondence, memoranda, the Keiller Mackay Report and other reports); religious anti-semitism (correspondence and memoranda); energy use (correspondence, memoranda and news clippings); Middle-East affairs (memoranda, news clippings and booklets); the United Nations and Human Rights Declarations (correspondence, new...

  12. Andrew Danson Art Projects [graphic material]

    This series consists of documents related to a selection of Andrew Danson's art projects. The projects are photo-based, often using photoshop to layer text or manipulate images. The works express Danson's interests in the Holocaust, women's issues, environmental degradation, war, politics and consumerism, often influenced by his Buddhist practice and philosophy.The series contains analogue prints and digital files, related to the folllowing art works: Amnesia, Cause and Effect, I Love You Woman, Illusions, InHerIt, Still Life and Let's Talk. Analogue negatives and contact sheets for some of...

  13. Canadian Jewish Congress fonds [textual record, sound recording, moving images]

    Fonds consists of correspondence, 1931-1932, 1937-1938, 1940, 38 pages; circulars, 1940-1942, 1.3 cm; Canadian Association for Adult Education, 1954-1958, 0.6 cm; publications, 1940-1944, 6.3 cm and photocopies, 1961, 24 pages. The fonds also contains sound recordings of songs and interviews in Yiddish and in English with pioneer members of the Jewish Community in Toronto, recorded mostly in the Jewish home for the aged, under the supervision of Professor Dov Nay of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1972-1974. Also included is a video recording of a documentary video cassette entitled Voi...

  14. Philatelic issues of 1995, Products [philatelic record]

    This is a preliminary description; please consult the linked accessions. Sub-series consists of philatelic products issued by Canada Post Corporation between 20 March - 9 November, 1995, including the following 1995 stamp issues: Second World War, 1939-1945; Art Canada. Blossoming, c. 1950, Alfred Pellan; The Canadian flag, 1965-1995; Fortress of Louisbourg; Historic Land Vehicles, Farm & Frontier Vehicles; Golf in Canada; Lunenburg Academy Centenary; The Group of Seven; Manitoba, 1870-1995; Fruit Trees; Queen Elizabeth II; Migratory Wildlife; Greetings booklet; Bridges; The Arctic; Sup...

  15. McGill University correspondence

    The file contains correspondence from Sandy Thorburn, John Burge, Judith Zaimont, and Canadian Who's Who, among others. It also includes a notice from the Board of Governors of McGill University informing Brian Cherney that he has been appointed Chairman of the Department of Theory, Faculty of Music from July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2005. In addition the file contains a paper by Barbara E. Galli titled Idolizing the Imageless:The (Anti-) Redemptive Remove in Shoah-Relating Works of Art, student academic recommendations, a teaching statement written by Brian Cherney (April 2005), and a McGill Un...

  16. Sol Littman fonds [multiple media]

    Fonds consists of Sol Littman's personal papers containing correspondence, memoranda, briefs, submissions, publications, articles, speeches, microfilms, research notebooks and materials, videotapes, films and photographs pertaining to the Albert Helmut Rauca case; the hunt for World War Two era war criminals and collaborators living in Canada including members of the Croation Ustasha, Hungarian Arrow Cross, Romanian Iron Guard, Slovak Hlinka Guard and the Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Volunteer Grenadier Division; the Deschênes Commission and Jewish-Ukrainian relations; suspected war criminal ca...

  17. April 2006 [graphic material (electronic)]

    This sub-sub-series consists of a selection of photographs chosen by the official photographers that relate to activities or events attended by Stephen Harper as Prime Minister of Canada for the month of April 2006. It includes photographs of Mr. Harper at the re-election of Peter Milliken as Speaker of the House of Commons (April 3) and of Michaëlle Jean's Speech from the Throne (April 4). In addition, the sub-sub-series documents Stephen Harper's first Question Period as Prime Minister (April 5), an event honouring former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (April 20), and a commemorative cerem...

  18. 2009-11-04 Payette

    Prime Minister Stephen Harper chats with Jasmine Igneski in the Government Lobby after Question Period. Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with Canadian Astronaut Julie Payette and her fellow crew members of space shuttle mission STS-127 (Pilot Doug Hurley, astronauts David Wolf, Christopher Cassidy and Tom Marshburn) in his Parliament Hill office. Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with the Polish Righteous and Holocaust Survivors in his Parliament Hill office. The following people are also depicted in the photographs: Jason Kenney, Jeremy Hunt, Jasmine Igneski, Leona Aglukkaq, Julie Pay...

  19. April 2006 [graphic material (electronic)]

    This sub-sub-series includes original photographs that relate to activities or events attended by Stephen Harper as Prime Minister of Canada in April 2006. It includes photographs of Mr. Harper at the re-election of Peter Milliken as Speaker of the House of Commons (April 3). A number of events in April 2006 are not documented in this sub-series, including Michaëlle Jean's Speech from the Throne (April 4), Stephen Harper's first Question Period as Prime Minister (April 5), an event honouring former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (April 20), and a commemorative ceremony for the victims of the...

  20. Bert Raphael fonds [textual record]

    Fonds consists of material which relates to Mr. Raphael's communal endeavours. Subject files relate to: his work on behalf of Soviet Jewry including the Dimitri Berman case; the Jewish Civil Rights Educational Foundation; the prosecution of war criminals and racists in Canada and the promotion of Holocaust education; the Canadian campaign to force the Syrian government to permit Syrian Jewry to emigrate from Syria; the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists of which he is an executive member; and the Toronto-based Reena Foundation for the developmentally handicapped.