Album of photographs from Tel Asher farm
Part of Asher Pierce Fonds
Album is comprised of photographs at Tel Asher and Gan Haim farms in Israel, most of which feature the ceremonial planting of an orange tree--likely to commemorate the 1927 founding of Asher Pierce's Gan Chaim Corporation, Ltd., a development of orange plantations. Also features a group photograph outside of a building on neighbouring Gan Haim farm.
Article covering the opening of the farm training center at Ste. Julie de Vercheres
Part of Hachshara Farms Fonds
Article covering the training farm in Smithville, Ont.
Part of Hachshara Farms Fonds
The fonds is comprised of biographical information on Asher Pierce, including obituaries, biographies, and copies of newspaper articles, several pieces of correspondence, a photo album featuring photographs from the opening of the Gan Chaim orange plantation in Palestine, and a single photograph of Ella Pierce.
Pierce, Asher, 1867-
Consists of legal documents, correspondence and financial information about Hachshara Farms.
Hachshara Farms Inc.
Part of Genealogy and Memoir Collection
File includes history of Jewish farming communities in rural Quebec. Family noted in this work include: Weisbord Family, Slobod/Frank Family, Abramovitch Family, Goodz Family, Rudy/Silver Family, Kottenberg Family, Rosenberg Family, Polsky Family, Fremeth Family, Doubilet Family, Simkin Family.
CD ROM titled "Unzera Shtetl"
My Fond Memories of Growing Up on the Farm in New Glasgow, Quebec
Part of Genealogy and Memoir Collection
File contains a manuscript with a brief history of the Rosenberg-Kottenberg family, Nathan Rosenberg's memoirs, as well as various photographs and clippings of the family and life in New Glasgow, Quebec. Compiled by Nathan Rosenberg.