Dual Exhibit: Refuge Canada Tent & Love the Stranger

Oct.13-Nov.28, 2022 at
Holy Blossom Temple

Refuge Canada Tent & Love the Stranger
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Refuge Canada Tent

Refuge Canada Tent

Created by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 and supported by TD Bank Group.

In celebration of 100 years of Jewish Immigrant Aid Services in Canada, JIAS Toronto invites you to Refuge Canada Tent, a traveling exhibit created by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, which will be hosted at Holy Blossom Temple, October 13 – November 28.

The exhibit was designed to resemble a tent and is the same size as a typical shelter used in refugee camps today. Refuge Canada Tent introduces people to Canada’s place in the global refugee crises, illuminating the challenges that refugees face while investigating Canada’s historical track-record of responding to refugees.

Visitors can see the exhibit during Holy Blossom Temple’s general building hours, or by special request.

Click HERE to book a group tour.

Courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

Courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

Tinalbarka a sixteen years old refugee from Mali, doing her school homework inside her family tent in Mbera refugee camp. © UNHCR/Agron Dragaj.

Love the Stranger

An exhibit curated by the Ontario Jewish Archives

Honouring 100 years of JIAS, the Ontario Jewish Archives has curated a complementary exhibit to Refuge Canada Tent entitled Love the Stranger.  The OJA exhibit recalls that many Canadian Jews were refugees over the last century – we too were “strangers in a strange land” – and that JIAS has played a central role in welcoming and supporting Jewish refugees from around the world.

Love the Stranger also highlights the commitment of Canadian Jews to the resettlement of diverse refugees from around the world.  From the very beginning of Canada’s Private Sponsorship Program in 1979, Canadian Jews have played a role in helping diverse refugees to find safe haven.  Contemporary Canadian Jews continue to provide life-changing support for refugees through private sponsorship, philanthropy, and volunteerism.

Visitors can see the exhibit during Holy Blossom Temple’s general building hours, or by special request.

Click HERE to book a group tour.

Love the Stranger

Joseph (Sankar) family immigrating from India, 1968. Ontario Jewish Archives, fonds 9, series 12, file 60.

Jewish immigrants on board the General Sturgis (Halifax, NS), 6 Feb. 1948. Ontario Jewish Archives, item 628.

JIAS Toronto office, [194-]. Ontario Jewish Archives, fonds 9, series 12, file 2

Ukrainian war orphans brought over by Lillian Freiman and Rebecca Kamarner to Toronto, 1921. Ontario Jewish Archives, item 2503.

Children living in JIAS House. Jewish Immigrant Aid Services collection at the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives.

Click HERE to book a tour of Refuge Canada Tent & Love the Stranger