Montreal’s City Council adopted today a special bylaw, amending the city’s zoning ordinance, to permit the Canadian Jewish Congress to use property in a residential area for the erection of its planned, new national headquarters.
The building, to be called Samuel Bronfman House, may, as a result of the new by-law, be erected on the site in the area where many diplomatic missions and foreign consulates have their headquarters. Word was still awaited from several foreign governments with headquarters in the area as to their willingness to allow the CJC to build its new structure in the restricted area.
Major General Georges P. Vanier, Governor-General of Canada, accepted today an invitation by the Canadian Jewish Congress to address the opening plenary session of the CJC’s next annual meeting. The meeting will open at Toronto June 21, and will close June 24.
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