Letter

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Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)

Dates

May 04, 1962 (indexed as 1962)

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Letter : paper : Printed : ink : Beige, black ; Ht: 34 cm x W: 21 cm

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Stock letter two pages in length, creased three times horizontally, Ontario county court letterhead, space of actual-size photograph of applicant on page one, signature of W.H. Waugh, clerk of the County of Welland court. Invitation to the court house in Welland, Ontario to receive Canadian citizenship certificate and to take oath of allegiance details instructions Narrative: Rev. Isodore Lorincz was born 6 January 1908 in Hungary. His parents were Lowi Netti and Loliner (?) Jakob. He attended high school and Yeshiva, and graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary of Budapest with ordination and smicha. During World War 2 his family was killed in Auschwitz. He came to Canada in 1957 after fleeing the revolution in Hungary. He and his wife lived with their cousin Eugene Lorincz when they first arrived. Isadore served in two congregations before serving the Shaare Zedek Congregation as ritual director, then as Chazzan Sheni with a congregation in Hamilton, Ontario, for three years. Afterwards he served as rabbi in Port Colborne, Ontario. He settled in Montreal, Quebec, in 1962 where he became Chazzan Sheni for the next 26 years. He and his wife, Zita, continued to live in Montreal until there death around 2005. Zita was born 2 Jan 1917 in Nograd, Hungary.

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W. HERBERT WAUGHLOCAL REGISTRAR OF THE SUPREME COURTREGISTRAR OF THE SURROGATE COURTCLERK OF THE COUNTY COURTIN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF WELLANDONTARIOCOUNTY COURT HOUSECROSS AND EAST MAIN STREETSWELLAND, ONTARIOTo Accompany Notice to take Oath of Allegiance, etc, and to attend court to accept receipt of Canadian citizenship certificate.4. RE MINIATURE CERTIFICATES:The Department of Citizenship and Immigration has included in the Declaration of Renunciation and Oath of Allegiance form which accompanied your certificate of Canadian citizenship to this office, a simplified form of application for a miniature certificate:Telephone Welland 3-5245Corner East Main StreetsDear Sir or Madame:1. Attached hereto is your notice to appear in open Court to receive your certificate of Canadian citizenship.2. You will call at the Court office first, before attending Court, where you will sign your Oath of Allegiance and renunciation of foreign nationality, and receipt for your certificate. You will receive a Holy Bible, or a New Testament, which becomes your own property. You will take it with you into the Court Room, where you will use it when formally taking your oath. Your certificate will be delivered in open Court. (Note: The Holy Bible or New Testament is the gift of Upper Canada Bible Society, auxiliary of The British and Foreign Bible Society, of 14 College Street, Toronto).3. If you have changed your address, by having moved out of Welland County to another county, you should advise me, in order that I may send the certificate, and documents for you to sign, to the Clerk of the Citizenship Court in the county where you now reside. This will save you the expense of returning to Welland for it.(a) Upon attending at this office to receive your certificate, you may apply for a miniature certificate by bringing $2.00 in cash with you, andActual size of required photograph(b) by bringing two (2) unmounted photographs, taken within the last two years, size 1 5/8" x 1 1/4", showing a full front view of head and shoulders of yourself, the applicant, without head covering. (Photographs of the slot machine type are NOT acceptable).(c) These two photographs must be delivered to the Clerk of the Court, or a member of his office, who will make a comparison of same with the applicant. One copy of photo will be glued, or stapled, to the application. The other will be enclosed, (loosely attached), not pasted, or clipped, to the application form.(d) You will sign your name on the form in a special space coloured in red, and mark an "X" in a square, indicating you desire a miniature certificate. You will leave this form with the Clerk of the Court.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

English

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