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It was founded in 1927 by the chevra kadisha, the Jewish community's volunteer burial society, as the Toronto Hebrew Funeral Parlour and functioned as a co-operative. In 1937, it acquired a building at 331 College Street, formerly the location of H. Ellis & Son Funeral Directors, where funeral services would be held.
Sharp was born in Toronto, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants. His father, Max, a devout Torah scholar, was a Polish Jew who emigrated from Poland to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1920 [2] [circular reference], [3] [4] and finally to Toronto five years later. He worked as a plasterer until his family began to grow with the arrival of ...
Lori Bruner (January 24, 1932 – December 18, 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was one of the preeminent women during the 1950s and 1960s to break through the glass ceiling within the male-dominated Canadian record industry.
Ken Girard, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). [8] Amarasiri Kalansuriya, 82, Sri Lankan actor (Hanthane Kathawa, Akkara Paha, Bambaru Avith). [9] Yasumichi Kushida, 46, Japanese voice actor (The Aquatope on White Sand, Demon Prince Enma, Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet). [10] Michael Lipton, 86, British economist ...
The following is a list of deaths in July 2009.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Highly versatile, he also proved a skilled comic actor in The Pink Panther franchise, playing the beleaguered Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in seven films. Lom’s other notable films included The Ladykillers (1955), War and Peace (1956), Spartacus (1960), El Cid (1961), Mysterious Island (also 1961), The Phantom of the Opera (1962), and The ...
Gayle Christie (née Ingle; born c. 1940) is a former politician in Toronto, Ontario. She was mayor of the borough of York, Ontario from 1978 to 1982. Background
Alan Redway, PC KC (March 11, 1935 – January 4, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.. After a career in municipal politics culminating in the role of mayor of East York, a borough of Metropolitan Toronto, Redway entered federal politics.