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Bay family fonds

  • Fonds
  • [190-?]-2011

Fonds consists of personal and professional records of Charles and Frances Bay and their families. Records relate to Frances’ acting career, Chuck’s work in the retail fashion business, personal photographs and genealogical research.

A large number of the records relate to Frances Bay’s acting career. These records include professional and on-set photographs, scripts for plays, movies and television programs in which she appeared and reviews of these works. These records mostly relate to her later career that began in the late 1970s and ended shortly before her death in 2011. Also included are awards she received for her work including a Gemini Award.

Personal records records include photographs of Chuck and Frances Bay and family members throughout their lives. These photographs depict their parents, their childhood and early married life, their son Josh. Many of the photographs depict numerous vacations taken between the late 1980s and the 2000s to various destinations in Europe, Southeast Asia, Israel and Egypt. Photographs also include family gatherings such as birthdays and family reunions.

A small number of records relate to Chuck Bay’s career in the retail fashion industry. These include newspaper clippings about his career, photographs of the Furchgott’s department store in Jacksonville, Florida where Chuck was General Manager, and copies of Chuck’s resume. Some of the European travel photographs appear to depict a goose farm and processing facility for his later business producing down comforters.

Chuck Bay researched the genealogy of the Bay, Goffman and Averbach families. Records of this research include detailed family trees, copies of photographs from various sources, correspondence with family members and copies of archival documents from several different institutions. These records include originals and photocopies apparently made during the 1990s and 2000s.

Bay family

Winnipeg Jewish Federation fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1945-1987

Fonds consists of records of the Winnipeg Jewish Community Council (WJCC) related to its functions raising and distributing funds to Jewish organizations in Winnipeg and Israel, promoting Holocaust education, combatting racism and antisemitism and supporting the Jewish community in Winnipeg in various other capacities. Records include reports on the Jewish population, hate speech and Israeli-Canadian relations; correspondence with a wide variety of organizations and individuals; executive minutes and others.
The Combined Jewish appeal is one of the largest functions carried out by the WJCC. Records related to this function include meeting minutes, correspondence with volunteers, staff and potential donors, policies and procedures and financial records.
Records of the organization’s executive include correspondence, minutes, agendas, by-laws and constitutions.
Various reports were prepared either as one-time events or as regular activites. Subjects of these reports include the cities Jewish population, demographic changes, anti-Semitism and racism, camps and internal organization.
Records related to Jewish schools includes reports on tuition and salaries and correspondence on various topics.
There also exists correspondence with individuals and organization in other communities in Canada, including Toronto, Montreal and smaller cities and towns in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Winnipeg Jewish Federation

Chavurat Tefilah (Fellowship of Prayer Synagogue) fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1978-2009

Fonds consists of records of Chavurat Tefilah (Fellowship of Prayer) Syngagogue including executive meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records and architectural drawings. In addition to administrative and religious issues, the main subjects of the records are public programming and fundraising.

Executive meeting minutes discuss public programming, religious practices, administration and building maintenance. Also included in the minutes are architectural drawings of proposed building expansions.

Correspondence mostly relates to fundraising projects and public programming.

Doris Margolis fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1940-1947, 1964-1992 (predominately 1970-1977)

Fonds consists of records created or acquired by Doris Margolis related to her work with Jewish musical groups and other Jewish organizations. Records include sheet music for works written by Margolis and programs for musical performances and other events in the Winnipeg Jewish Community.

Sheet music and scripts include those for Yiddish and English songs and musical skits written by Doris Margolis for the Jewish Women’s Musical Club and for Hadassah-WIZO. Also included is other published sheet music for Yiddish and English for works performed by the Jewish Women’s Musical Club or the Golden Age Choir.

Also included are volumes compiled by Doris Margolis about the history of the Jewish Women’s Club and the Golden Age Choir. These volumes include newspaper clippings, programs, photographs and musical scores.

Other records include programs for events at Shaarey Zedek Syngagogue and Hadassah-WIZO and portions of her autobiography.

Margolis, Doris

Fred Narvey fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1948-1965, 1979-2007 (predominately 1979-1998)

Fonds consists of short stories and non-fiction written by Fred Narvey and a small amount of personal correspondence. The stories mostly concern Jewish life in Winnipeg’s North End.

Narvey, Fred

Min Heft fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1921, 1945-1979, 2009

Fonds consists of records of Min Heft reflecting her work with the Religious Affairs Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress Western Division (CJC) and other organizations as well as her personal interests.

Records of the CJC Religious Affairs Committee include correspondence and meeting minutes. In particular, the records reflect her work establishing a Jewish chaplaincy service in Manitoba hospitals.

Other records include scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, programs and newsletters, mostly related to Shaarey Zedek Synagogue.

Min Heft

Jewish Foundation of Manitoba fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1986-2008

Fonds consists of publications of the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba and a project on the organizations history.

Publications consist of annual reports, brochures and copies of the newsletter The Jewish Foundation Links.

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba a project was undertaken in partnership with the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada to compile biographical information on the 122 “Founders” who signed the organizations founding document. The result of this was two volumes of biographies and photographs compiled from the holdings of the Jewish Heritage Centre and from information provided by family members of the Founders.

Jewish Foundation of Manitoba

Labor Zionist Movement of Canada Winnipeg fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1956-1969

Fonds consists of records of the Labor Zionist Movement in Canada Winnipeg Office including meeting minutes, correspondence and press releases.

Most of the correspondence is between the Winnipeg office and the head office in Montreal. This includes a large number of notices from the head office. Other correspondents include groups overseen by the Labor Zionist Movement and speakers invited by the group.

Also includes handwritten minutes of Poale Zion.

Labor Zionist Movement of Canada Winnipeg

Ludwipol Free Loan Association fonds

  • 1945-1971

Fonds consists of financial and legal records of Ludwipol Free Loan Association. These recods include ledgers, account books, cheque books and receipts.

Ludwipol Free Loan Association

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