Ten members of the Dominion’s Senate here took the floor in the Canadian Legislature’s Upper House to comment formally on the contributions to this country by the Jewish Community, which is currently celebrating the 200th anniversary of the first Jewish settlement in Canada.
At the same time, in Toronto. Canadian Jewry was praised highly by Canada’s Governor General, Maj. Gen. George P. Vanier, as well as by the Premier of Ontario, L. M. Frost, and the leader of the Opposition in Ontario’s provincial government, J.J. Wintermeyer.
The history of the Jewish community was reviewed in the Senate by Senator David A. Croll, a Jew, who declared that the Jews in the Dominion have found “fulfillment of all their hopes and aspirations” of freedom, equality and human dignity. Others in the Senate who spoke on the same theme, and welcomed the contributions made to Canada by its Jewish population, were Senators W.M.Aseltine, W, Ross Macdonald, George S. White, F. W. Gershaw, Donald Cameron, Muriel McQ. Ferguson, Arthur F. W. Gershaw, Jean-Francois Pouliot, and Wishart McL. Robertson.
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