In the year 1850, there were fewer than 500 Jews in all of Canada. By 1930 that number had increased to over 150,000, with the largest proportion of Yiddish-speaking Jewish newcomers settling in the city of Montreal. Nestled between the predominant “Two Solitudes” of the French-Catholic and Anglo-Protestant communities, with Yiddish the most spoken language after French and English, the Jewish community became the third largest ethnic group in the growing city.
The Third Solitude.
Courtesy of the Jewish Public Library Archives, Montreal 
Fletcher’s Field carte postale 1915, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec 
Courtesy of the Jewish Public Library Archives, Montreal
Archives de la Ville de Montréal 
Courtesy of the Jewish Public Library Archives, Montreal
Carte Postale, ca. 1914. Tiré des collections de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. 
Ernst Neumann Print 1938, McCord Museum, Montreal
