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Nina Cohen fonds [textual record, graphic material, object]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1925-1981.

Reference:

R2590-0-X-E, MG30-C152

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101647

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Nina Cohen fonds
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Fonds includes:

31 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1925-1981.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

60 cm of textual records.
91 photographs b&w and col.
2 medals.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of Personal Series, Canadian Red Cross and Community Affairs.

Fonds also includes photographic material depicting the activities of Mrs. Nina Cohen as Vice-President and later National President of the Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada; sod turning ceremonies on the site of the Miners' Museum, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 19 May 1966.

Fonds consists of two medals commemorating the achievement of Cape Breton County's Centennial Project, The Miner's Museum and Ocean Deeps Colliery.

Provenance:

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Cohen, Nina, 1907-1991

Biography/Administrative history:

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Cohen, Nina, 1907-1991 : Nina Cohen (née Fried), community leader, long-time Jewish communal leader in the Maritimes and a former national president of Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada was born at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. She was educated at Mount Allison Ladies College and Rutgers University where she studied music and art. During the Second World War, Mrs. Cohen served as chairman of the hospital visiting committee and the publicity chairman of the Canadian Red Cross in Sydney. After the war she was active in the War Orphan Placement Service of the Canadian Jewish Congress. An active Zionist, she served as National President of Canadian Hadassah-Wizo, 1960-1964, and was made an Honorary President for Life in 1964. She served on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1960-1984. In 1955 she was the Negev Dinner Honouree in Sydney.

In 1962, Mrs. Cohen conceived the idea of the Miners' Museum in Glace Bay as a centennial project to honour Glace Bay's coal miners. The Museum was dedicated in 1967. She organized the internationally recognized "Men of the Deeps", Cape Breton's Choir of 30 coal miners, which is dedicated to preserving traditional songs of the region. Mrs. Cohen served as a trustee of the National Museum Corporation of Canada, 1968-1975.

Mrs. Cohen received many honours including the Canadian Red Cross Medal of Merit, Woman of the Century 1867-1967, for Nova Scotia, by the National Council of Jewish Women, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, Mount Allison University, 1963, and officer of the Order of Canada, 1968.

See also: The Canadian Who's Who, 1967-1969.

Finding aid:

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(Paper) Medals: Medal inventory numbers. MSS5205, MSS5206

(Electronic) Medals: Item level descriptions available on-line in Minisis.

Additional information:

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General note:

Received in 1977 and 1981 from Mrs. H. Cohen, (Nina Fried) of Toronto, Ont.
Subject heading:

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Women, Jewish - Canada, 1925-1981 Clair M. Fried, 1941-1946

Jewish organizations - Canada, 1925-1981 Canada. Army. Seaforth Highlanders, 1941-1946

World War II - Jews Yaya Saka, 1942-1981

Jewish orphans - Canada, 1947-1948 Canadian Hadassah - Wizo, 1940-1977

World War II - War work - Red Cross, 1940-1946 Hebrew University (Jerusalem), 1968-1980

Associations, institutions, etc. - Canada, 1925-1981 The Mines Museum, 1967-1976

Men of the Deep, 1967-1976

National Museum's of Canada, 1968-1975
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1977-256 NPC
1981-147 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-C152
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

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Box [COHEN, NINA 1977-256]

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3829;

[Consultation 90 Open]

SC 0147;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [COHEN, NINA 1981-147] 6220

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Object

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Medals: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright: Cape Breton County. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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