- Museum of Jewish Montreal
- Montreal Hebrew Orphans’ Home
- Montefiore Hebrew Orphans’ Home (SW Corner of Claremont and Windsor)
Montefiore Hebrew Orphans’ Home (SW Corner of Claremont and Windsor)
file1936-1942
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Where
- Held by
- Museum of Jewish Montreal via Museum of Jewish Montreal — map of Jewish Montreal
- Creators
- Valérie Beauchemin; David Gilbert
- Dates
- 1936-1942 (indexed as 1936–1942)
- Level
- file (source: Exhibit)
- Scope & content
- The Montreal Hebrew Orphans’ Home opened in 1909 on 18 Evans Street. Despite its name, the home initially took in transients and the elderly as well as orphans. At the time, the term orphan did not necessarily mean a child without parents--many children of impoverished single parents were also categorized as such. In the context of massive Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, the existing…
- Places
- SW Corner of Claremont and Windsor, Montreal
- Location
- avenue Claremont & avenue Windsor · intersection · confidence 80% · intersection · found as “Corner of Claremont and Windsor)”
- rue Evans · street · confidence 50% · street · found as “Evans Street”
- Subjects
- Communal
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-17T06:33:24Z · source datestamp n/a · mjm