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Canadian Immigration Record (1933-1945) 79 Norman Erwin The Holocaust, Canadian Jews, and Canada’s “Good War” Against Nazism 103 Sheena Trimble Sortir de l’ombre: Canadiennes juives engagées dans le mouvement d’orphelins (1947-1949) 124 Jason Chalmers Canadianising the Holocaust: De-bating Canada’s National Holocaust Monument 149
The first Jewish cemetery was established in 1849 and Toronto's first synagogue, the Toronto Hebrew Congregation, was founded in 1856. [ 5 ] In the late nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century, the Jewish community and other non-British immigrants were densely concentrated in " The Ward " between College Street, Queen Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue.
- Background
- Swastika Clubs
- Tensions Build
- The Christie Pits Riot
- Aftermath
- Legacy
In the first half of the 20th century, anti-Semitism was a socially acceptable, inseparable part of mainstream Canadian society. Jewish Canadianswere relegated to second-class citizenship. Businesses refused to hire them, universities restricted their enrolment, and entire neighbourhoods prohibited the sale or rental of housing to Jews. During the ...
In 1933, Toronto was overwhelmingly British. The Orange Order was a major social force in the city. The organization promoted a British loyalism that was both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. Jews were the largest minority group in Toronto and found themselves subject to verbal and physical attacks. Tensions between Jews and Anglo-Canadians were esp...
On 14 August 1933, the mostly Jewish Harbord Playground baseball team took the field at Christie Pits against local rivals St. Peter’s. Provocateurs unaffiliated with either team took to the field waving an improvised swastika banner. That evening, they returned to paint the swastika alongside the words “Hail Hitler” on the roof of the clubhouse. T...
Two days later, on 16 August, supporters of both factions arrived in force for the series’ follow-up game. Fights erupted in the stands and were broken up by police. As the game ended, members of a local anti-Semitic group flew a homemade swastika banner to cries of “Heil Hitler.” Violence broke out. The Jews battled members of the Swastika Club an...
No one was killed during the riot. The following day, dozens of the walking wounded trickled into Toronto’s hospitals to receive medical attention for injuries of varying severity. Only a few arrests were made, speaking to the police’s indifference towards the persecution of minorities. Two people were charged, but only Jack Roxborough was convicte...
Certain people have interpreted the song “Bobcaygeon” from The Tragically Hipas being a partial reference to the Christie Pits riots. In 2008, Heritage Toronto unveiled a plaque to commemorate the riot at Christie Pits. The events were also explored in the Canadian Journeys gallery at The Canadian Museum of Human Rights.
May 6, 2016 · Canada and the Holocaust. The Holocaust is defined as the systematic persecution and murder of 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti, Poles, political opponents, LGBTQ people and Soviet prisoners of war (POWs), by Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Jews were the only group targeted for complete destruction.
Toronto's Jewish community is the most populous and one of the oldest in the country, forming a significant part of the history of the Jews in Canada. It numbered about 240,000 in the 2001 census, having overtaken Montreal in the 1970s. As of 2011, the Greater Toronto Area is home to 188,710 Jews. The community in Toronto is composed of many ...
Jul 21, 2022 · None Is Too Many. Written by Irving Abella and Harold Troper, None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933–1948 (published in 1982), documented antisemitism in the Canadian government’s immigration policies as they applied to European Jews fleeing persecution from Nazi Germany. The phrase “none is too many” entered the Canadian ...
Between 1933 and 1948, less than 5,000 Jewish refugees were allowed into Canada – the smallest number of any Allied nation. View image in fullscreen gallery Canada was one of the nations that refused to allow entry to passengers on the MS St. Louis, a ship carrying over 900 Jewish refugees trying to escape the Nazis.
