With elaborate official ceremonies and in the presence of prominent Canadian Government representatives, as well as numerous delegations of Jewish organizations in Canada and the United States, the first ORT training school for Jewish refugees in Canada will open tomorrow. Situated in a camp for European refugees on Ile aux Noix, an island on Lake Richelieu, 47 miles from Montreal, the school, which was constructed by ORT in close cooperation with the Canadian Government, will enable many of the more than one thousand refugees to learn trades, machine shop operation and all types of metal work, and production of various parts needed for airplanes and other implements of war.
Near the school, which is a one-story structure of 4,800 square feet, a farm of some 70 acres for poultry and cattle-raising will be established. Thus in addition to the industrial training which the ORT trade school will give to many of the refugees, others will receive agricultural training on the farm.
Canadian Commissioner of Refugee Camps, Colonel R.S.U. Fordham, who gave every assistance in the realization of the ORT project, has expressed praise in a letter sent to Canadian ORT, saying that this is “one of the most useful and constructive pieces of work that could possibly have been devised in connection with the refugee camps.”
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