- Museum of Jewish Montreal
- Kalmen Kaplansky
- Kalmen Kaplansky - Montreal District Council of the Labour Party of Canada (Quebec Section) (415 St-Catherine E.)
Kalmen Kaplansky - Montreal District Council of the Labour Party of Canada (Quebec Section) (415 St-Catherine E.)
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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 (indexed as 1937)
- 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… FR : Kalmen Kaplansky - Conseil de district de Montréal du Parti ouvrier du Canada (Section du Québec), 415 St-Catherine E.
- Places
- 415 St-Catherine E.; 415 rue St-Catherine E.
- Location
- McGill University · landmark · confidence 60% · landmark:geonames · found as “mcgill university”
- rue Sainte-Catherine · street · confidence 50% · street · found as “rue St-Catherine E.”
- Subjects
- Communal; Political
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-17T06:33:28Z · source datestamp n/a · mjm