SLONEMSKY

Quick facts

Story kiosk location

  • Corner of Cumberland & St. Patrick

Important dates

  • 1911 – In this year the scholarly Eliyahu Slonemsky, whose family ran a popular clothing store at 9 Mosgrove Street (which connected Rideau and George where The Bay is today) became principal of Ottawa Hebrew School.

Audiofile

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What happened here?

  • In the 1930s/1940s Hugo Levendel and Morris Stein captured the history of the Byward Market for generations to come by taking photographs of businesses and their owners, many of which feature on our Byward Market kiosks.