- Museum of Jewish Montreal
- Kalmen Kaplansky
- Kalmen Kaplansky - Montreal Typographical Union, Local 176 of the International Typographical Union (686 Notre-Dame O.)
Kalmen Kaplansky - Montreal Typographical Union, Local 176 of the International Typographical Union (686 Notre-Dame O.)
file1937-1942
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Where
- Held by
- Museum of Jewish Montreal via Museum of Jewish Montreal — map of Jewish Montreal
- Creator
- Sarah Woolf
- Dates
- 1937-1942 (indexed as 1937–1942)
- Level
- file (source: Exhibit)
- Scope & content
- Described as the zayde (grandfather) of the Canadian human rights movement, Kalmen Kaplansky (1912-1997) began his human rights and trade union activism in Montreal soon after arriving in Montreal from Poland in 1929. Turned away from McGill University due to the institution’s quotas on Jewish enrolment, Kaplansky got his start as a member of the International Typographical Union. After steady…
- Places
- 686 Notre-Dame O.; 686 rue Notre-Dame O.
- Location
- 686 rue Notre-Dame Ouest · address · confidence 90% · address:exact · found as “686 Notre-Dame O.”
- McGill University · landmark · confidence 60% · landmark:geonames · found as “mcgill university”
- Subjects
- Communal; Political
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-17T06:33:28Z · source datestamp n/a · mjm