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- Ena Ship - Jacobs Building (460 Ste-Catherine O.)
Ena Ship - Jacobs Building (460 Ste-Catherine O.)
file19346 descriptions inside6 digitized
In 1928 Ena Ship (née Tenhouse) left her small town in Ukraine to come to Canada, where she was paid three dollars a week – “a high wage” – to pull errant threads out of newly stitched pants. She moved onto ties, a non-unionized sector of the industry. During her time there, Ship helped her shop bec…
6 descriptions directly inside
- Ena Ship at Camp Nitgedeiget (which roughly translates to “Don’t worry” in Yiddish), ca. 1930sitem ca. 1930s · Museum of Jewish MontrealDigitized
- Ena and Dave Ship out fishing, ca. 1954item ca. 1954 · Museum of Jewish MontrealDigitized
- Portrait of Ena Ship, ca. 1930sitem ca. 1930s · Museum of Jewish MontrealDigitized
- The Jacobs Building located at 460 Ste-Catherine O. once housed dozens of garment manufacturing workshopsitem · Museum of Jewish MontrealDigitized
- Inside the Jacobs Building todayitem 1930s · Museum of Jewish MontrealDigitized
- St Catherine Street looking Eastitem ca. 1937 · Museum of Jewish MontrealDigitized
