▪ Rosenberg Book to Mark Canadian Jews' 200 Years By BEN TAUBE the Dominion against his- torical background. * * * ter the British conquest of the (Copyright. 1959, JTA, Inc.) colony in the Seven-Year War, Editor's Note: Canadian is taken as the conventional Jewry is now celebrating 200 MONTREAL —After the landmark — even though Jews years of the settlement of United States and Great Britain, had been living in the Canadian the first Jews in Canada. Ben it is now the turn of Canadian Maritime provinces more than Tanbe, correspondent of the Jews to mark their historic a decade earlier. Jewish Telegraphic Agency birthday in centuries. The early pioneers (tradi- in Montreal, reviews the The settlement of Jews in the tionally called Spanish and achieve»ents of the Jews in. Province of Quebec in 1759. af- Portuguese, but in most cases more truthfully Ashkenazi Jews from England) were an active, self-assertive, creative. Greetings on. the Holiday group who moved widely and freely in the Canadian wastes, constituted a tightly-knit so- cial group with constant Jew- ish interests and made their 25701 CAR LYSLE 1 nkster LO 5-2739 presence felt in many spheres of Canadian life. Where they did not enter easily—as in the military or Rosh Hasha.na Best Wishes the executive — they did not hesitate to fight their way in defense of their dignity and their rights. So it was that they raised— without success—the question 3800 Eighteenth St. TE 1-6700 of their rights of access to Par- liament, a full half-century be- fore this was accorded even by 0 ► 0 the mother Parliament in Lon- don. 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