Mabel “Mae” Heaps (1913-2008) was a journalist from Montreal. She was the daughter of Samuel Boulkind and Fanny Fish, born in Montreal. She attended McGill University where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1934 and a Master of Arts in 1938. She married David Heaps in 1948 and moved to the United States for David’s work. They had at least 3 sons, Jonathan, Alan, and Danny.
During the war years especially Mae and her sister Gwen wrote for the Montreal Star family of newspapers under the pseudonym "Boulkind." Their stories were social in nature and covered diverse topics from codebreaking in the RAF, spas for women in the Montreal area, to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union strike of 1937.
Hebrew Academy was founded in 1967 out of the merger of two Orthodox congregational day schools, the Adath Israel Elementary and High School and the Young Israel Elementary School. The Academy was located in Outremont, Quebec, and relocated to Cote St. Luc in 1979.
The Association was founded in 1911 as the personal project of businessman Zigmond Fineberg. As he said at the opening meeting, held at the Baron de Hirsch Institute on May 28, 1911: It has been my lifelong ambition to see established in this city a Hebrew Free Loan Association: a Society "That would help man to help himself," one that would build manhood instead of making paupers, one that would stimulate instead of depress ambition… Since 1911 the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Montreal has helped over 95,000 people by providing interest-free loans for a variety of purposes, but all with the same goal – to help man help himself. (From www.hflamtl.org/en/about.php "About Us.")