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- Title
THE JEWISH FARMERS OF WESTERN CANADA.
- Authors
Leonoff, Cyril Edel
- Abstract
The article describes the efforts of the Jewish farmers to establish a mass settlement in Western Canada. It was Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a German-Jewish financier and industrialist, who first planned a large-scale resettle of Jews in the area. Hirsch became aware of the plight of his coreligionists when he worked in the Near East as a pioneer in the sugar and copper industries. It was there that he realized the ability of Jews to engage in agriculture which led to help them become free farmers on their own soil. He established a fund to help settle immigrants in Canada through the Jewish Colonization Association. With the help of the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society of Montreal (YMHBS), a colony of Jews were settled in Oxbow near the coal mines and the railroad branch line.
- Subjects
WESTERN Canada; JEWISH farmers; HIRSCH, Moritz, Freiherr auf Gereuth, 1831-1896; JEWISH capitalists &; financiers; SUGAR industry; COPPER industry; JEWISH Colonization Association
- Publication
Western States Jewish History, 1984, Vol 16, Issue 3, p200
- ISSN
0043-4221
- Publication type
Article