Benjamin G. Sack, Historian of Canadian Jewry, Dies in Montreal; Was 78

Funeral services were held here for Benjamin G. Sack, a pioneer historian of Canadian Jewry, who died at the age of 78. Under the sponsorship of the Canadian Jewish Congress, he published the first volume of his History of the Jews in Canada which appeared in English and Yiddish and he was working on the second volume at the time of his death. Born in Lithuania, Mr. Sack came to Canada in 1905 and served later as editor of the Jewish Daily Eagle. He was president of the Canadian Jewish Historical Society.