The fonds consists of consists of 6 boxes. Boxes 1 and 2 contain correspondence, bills and receipts, pamphlets, papers relating to the Hebrew burial grounds and general accounts. Box 3 contains minute books and account books. Box 4 contains account books. [The account book from 1893 was not filmed.] Box 5 contains a register of births, marriages and deaths and Box 6 contains records related to the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. [Also available on microfilm.]
Congregation Emmanuel of VictoriaThe fonds consists of administrative and operational records generated by Congregation Emanu-El including: textual records; photographs; moving images; sound recordings; ledgers; and scrapbooks.
The fonds is arranged into 22 series: Preschool and Hebrew School; Correspondence; Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia/Allan Klenman; Membership; Committees; Photographs and audio-visual; Publications; Restoration; Ben Levinson historical/archival files; Renovation (Matanah G’Dolah Project); Congregation Rabbi’s; Bar/Bat Mitzvah and conversion certificates; Jewish cemetery; Vancouver Island Jewish Community Directory (VIJCD); Financials; Holocaust Symposium; Board; Administration and operational records; Ephemera; Marriages and divorces; Scrapbooks; and Sylvester family.
Congregation Emanu-ElSeries consists of four photographs taken by Franz Lindner in 1965 of groups of men at Jewish Community Fund and Council meetings. Series also includes one oversized scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the Jewish Community Fund and Council.
Series consists of individual cards arranged alphabetically by surname with the amount of money pledged signed by the canvassers.
Series consists of cards used to collect and document information on community members and families over the course of the operation of the Jewish Community Fund and Council. They are organized into series of geographical locations in BC and within each region alphabetically by the last name of the head of the family household (generally the father/husband). This census card survey program was instituted in order to determine the need and interest for a new Jewish Community Centre in Vancouver. The program was planned by the Council with advice sought and received from the Canadian Jewish Congress, specifically from Louis Rosenberg who had completed a significant survey of Canadian Jewry for the Canadian Jewish Congress.
As a result of research, the Fund and Council began the program of surveying families and individuals in the community in the late 1940s , noting down information such as name of family head and spouse, home address, workplace name and address, telephone numbers for home and business, names of children, date born, affiliation with community organizations. The survey was conducted primarily by telephone, and the surveyors appear to have been volunteers. Information was updated on individual cards until too much information had changed, whereupon the old card was retired and a new one created. The surveying continued until the early 1980s.
Series consists of records relating to community wide fundraising campaigns organized initially by the Vancouver Jewish Community Fund and then by the Fund and Council operating under the Jewish Community Trust Fund of Vancouver. Included are lists of names assigned to the volunteer canvassers, canvasser lists, lists of donors and the amounts given, and staple bound books of donations receipt copies.
Series consists of accounting sheets, minutes of budget and allocations committees, tentative budgets and budgets and allocations.
Series contains minutes of meetings and related records (such as meeting attendance sheets) for the Vancouver Jewish Community Council, 1954 through to 1964, for the Vancouver Jewish Community Fund for 1965, for both the Council and the Fund for 1966, and for the amalgamated Vancouver Jewish Community Fund & Council for 1966 to 1968. It also contains annual reports for various organizations in the Vancouver Jewish community, including the Community Centre Committee, the Community Council, the Jewish Welfare Bureau, and the Budget Committee until 1980. Also included is material relating to a fact-finding initiative leading to the project to create an ongoing census survey of the community (see Census cards series), and a project to honour past presidents of the Community Centre which provides names and tenure dates for Community Centre Presidents from 1932-1954. There are also various committee reports, grant applications, correspondence files and publicity and clipping file.
Series consists of submissions from various communal organizations applying for funding support. These submissions contain information about and from the applicant organizations including financial statements, program descriptions and reports. The series contains applications from some of the following organizations: B’nai B’rith Hillel, Habonim-Zionist Society Agency; Jewish Family Service Agency, Jewish Home for the Aged-Brier Home, Peretz School, Talmud Torah (Vancouver and New Westminster) and others as listed below.
The fonds consists of administrative files generated by Morris Saltzman and predecessors of the Jewish Community Fund and Council such as: minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, fundraising campaign files, and files of organizations who received funding; as well as census cards (potential donor information) and individual donations cards. Fonds also includes 4 photographs and 1 over-sized scrapbook.
The fonds is arranged into 7 series: Organizations; Administrative matters; Financial matters; Fundraising campaigns; Census cards: potential donors card catalogue; Individual donations card catalogue; and Photographs and scrapbooks.
Vancouver Jewish Community Fund and CouncilSeries consists of historical information and research that was collected in preparation for JFSA’s 50th anniversary video and commemorative book.
Series consists of photographs and audio cassette tapes collected in preparation for JFSA’s 50th anniversary video and commemorative book.
The fonds consist of correspondence, minutes, applications for funding, distribution lists, and draft material relating to the video. The fonds is arranged into 2 series: Photographs and sound recordings; and Research files.
Ames, TracyThis series contains photographs, negatives, and postcards of Seidelman family members, family friends, and places visited.
This series contains letters to Harry Seidelman from his cousin Harry Dalkin from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Harry Dalkin’s letters discuss his financial issues, dealings with Nitinat Timber Co., and family.
This series contains correspondence between Harry Seidelman and Arthur Laing, MP, in Ottawa. Senator Laing and Harry Seidelman worked together as young men at Buckerfield’s Limited, a feed and farm supply store, and remained friends until Harry’s death in 1972. Records include letters to Harry Seidelman, copies of letters that Harry Seidelman sent, and invitations. The letters are generally about political issues.
This series contains records relating to the Vancouver Welfare Federation. Harry Seidelman was the Vancouver Welfare Federation representative in his company, United Milling and Grain Co. Ltd during 1932. The Vancouver Welfare Federation raised money to help those in need. Records include solicitation letters to employees of the United Milling and Grain Co. Ltd, list of pledges from those employees, newspaper clippings about the Vancouver Welfare Federation, reports and minutes from the Vancouver Welfare Federation, and letters from the Vancouver Welfare Federation to its representative at United Milling and Grain Co. Ltd.
This series contains letters to and from members of the Seidelman family, especially members in Winnipeg and Minneapolis; records relating to Harry Seidelman’s career; financial records; receipts; published articles concerning Seidelman family members; and schooling records. The series also includes letters to and from William Seidelman, Sr. from the 1889 and 1890s; some of the letters come from Seattle. The CD-R contains family records digitized by the family ca. 2007. Some of the originals of the digitized records on CD-R are part of the fonds.
This series contains letters written by Private Edward Joseph Seidelman to his family from July 1916 until his death in October 1917. The letters were written when Private Seidelman was stationed in Camp Hughes, Manitoba; Seaford, Sussex, England; and “Somewhere in France”. The series also contains Private Seidelman’s death certificate and letters from the Canadian and British government to his family after his death. Published material includes a published obituary from the “Daily Province”, Vancouver, British Columbia and a Western Universities Battalion newsletter from Camp Hughes, Manitoba, published October 21, 1916.
The fonds contains records from various Seidelman family members, including Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, Harry Seidelman, and William Seidelman Sr. The records reflect the family’s daily life. The fonds includes photographs of the Seidelman family members and friends. The textual material includes letters written by Private Edward Joseph Seidelman while in the Army from 1916 to 1917. Also included are correspondence of Harry Seidelman and records relating to his employment as a sailor and as a partner at United Grain and Milling Co. Ltd. Other records include receipts, financial records, school certificates, newspaper clippings, and records relating to the family’s involvement in the Vancouver Jewish community.
Seidelman (family)The series consists of miscellaneous files on Congregation Emanu-El matters.
The series consists of miscellaneous Victoria Jewish Federation files (unrelated to Congregation Emanu-El).
The series consists of fundraising files, most notably files on the Matanah G’Dolah which was a large fundraising campaign to build the new Educational and Cultural Centre attached to the synagogue.
The series consists of Congregation Emanu-El publication files, most notably Koleinu files.
The series consists of Congregation Emanu-El correspondence files.