- Museum of Jewish Montreal
- Kalmen Kaplansky
- Kalmen Kaplansky - Montreal Typographical Union, Local 176 of the International Typographical Union (484 McGill)
Kalmen Kaplansky - Montreal Typographical Union, Local 176 of the International Typographical Union (484 McGill)
file1943
Description only — contact the archiveView at source ↗
Where
- Held by
- Museum of Jewish Montreal via Museum of Jewish Montreal — map of Jewish Montreal
- Creator
- Sarah Woolf
- Dates
- 1943 (indexed as 1943)
- 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
- 484 McGill; 484 McGill, Montréal; 484 rue McGill
- Location
- 484 rue McGill · address · confidence 90% · address:exact · found as “484 rue McGill”
- 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