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Bernard Wexler and the Making of Alex Bernard (3631 de Bullion)

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Where

rue De BullionCorrect the locationNearby on the big map
Held by
Museum of Jewish Montreal via Museum of Jewish Montreal — map of Jewish Montreal
Dates
1931-1932 (indexed as 1931–1932)
Level
file (source: Exhibit)
Scope & content
During the 1930s, Alex Bernard led a French Canadian folk band that played on Montreal’s CKAC radio station every week. Every summer, he and his band would tour around Quebec, entertaining towns, villages and church audiences. Throughout those years, his band mates kept his real identity from public knowledge, because Alex Bernard was really Bernard Wexler, a classically trained violinist from Romania, and a Jew. Click on the video link in the Media section to listen to Jerry Wexler, Bernard’s son, tell his father’s story. Sources: Part of the Interactive Museum of Jewish Montreal’s Stories Project, which aims to collect, preserve and share the diverse stories of Montreal’s Jewish experience. Created by Nicholas van Beek. Produced by Nicholas van Beek and Zev Moses. Interview with Jerry Wexler. Images courtesy of Jerry Wexler and the Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee Archives. Music by Bernard Wexler, courtesy of Jerry Wexler. Special thank you to the Concordia Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Animation by Delphine Wibaux - www.delwibaux.com. Animation music by D’Harmo, “Smog et Mardi Gras”, written by Sam Caron. Animation images courtesy of the Jewish Public Library Archives, Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee Archives, les Archives de la ville de Montreal, and the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union Archives, Kheel Centre, Cornell University.
Places
3631 de Bullion, Montreal; 3631 rue de Bullion, Montreal
Location
  • rue De Bullion · street · confidence 50% · street · found as “rue de Bullion”
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Subjects
Performing Arts; Editor
Language
English
Harvested
2026-10-17T06:33:28Z · source datestamp n/a · mjm
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