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Jacob
Goldberg residence, 439 Keefer St, Vancouver,1910
L: Sarah, Rose, Elizabeth, Etta (Mrs.), Ann, Jacob (Mr.) JHS
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WHERE
DID WE COME FROM?
WHERE DID WE GO?
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Throughout
the 1800s, most of the world's Jews lived in eastern Europe.
Although their rights were not the same as those in western
Europe, there were signs of improvement in the middle of the
century. This optimism halted abruptly in 1881 when violence
erupted after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
Early the next year Jews were again permitted to emigrate-which
they did in large numbers. Between 1881 and 1914, over two
million eastern European Jews settled in the United States.
Approximately fifty thousand settled in Canada.
World War I ended immigration from war-torn Europe. It resumed
after the war, however, until Canadian government policies
once again brought it to a halt in 1924. Most of those Jews
who had immigrated to North America settled in the large,
eastern urban
centres, such as New York in the United States and Montreal
and Toronto in Canada. British
Columbia was not a major lure for Jewish immigrants.
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Chaim
Leib Freedman residence, 123 East 5th Avenue, Vancouver,
1919 JHS
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Samuel
W. Chess residence, 4711 Angus drive, Vancouver, 1921
JHS
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The City of Vancouver was incorporated in 1886. Not surprisingly,
those Jewish immigrants who settled in British Columbia were
attracted to this rapidly expanding port. Within five years
(1891), the population of Vancouver exceeded that of Victoria,
as did its Jewish community. Amongst those Jews who did settle
in BC, the more adventurous chose small towns such as Nanaimo,
Prince
Rupert or Prince
George, and Rossland, Trail and Nelson in the Kootenays.
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Section
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Section
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Section
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Section
4
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Where
Did We Come From?
Where Did We Go?
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Making
a Living
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Integration/Rejection
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Building
a Community
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