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Chaim, went to Lachine near Montreal in Canada, where he established a bakery, even supplied bread to the Indian Reservation by horse and cart quite a distance away. Apparently, when he came to Montreal in 1923 he opened a donut shop which didn't last long (according to Jakie who remembered being told about the venture). A minor controversy exists concerning who introduced the Bagel to Montreal but as far as the Seligman clan is concerned it was Chaim (Hyman) Seligman Chaim. The bagel bakery was built in a lane next door to Schwartz's Deli on St. Lawrence Boulevard in central Montreal. Chaim would string his Bagels into dozens and patrol Jewish Main purveying his ware originally from a pushcart, then a horse and wagon and lastly from a converted taxi. Chaim went into partnership with Myer Lewkowicz and with Jack Shlafman but managed to fall out with both. Chaim and Myer founded the St. Viateur Bagel Shop and Jack established Fairmount Bagel, both existing until today. See: http://www.seligman.org.il/seligman_bagel.html

The Bagel Along with smoked meats, the Montreal bagel – smaller, sweeter and with a larger hole than its New York counterpart; traditionally hand-rolled, boiled, baked and sprinkled with sesame or poppy seeds – is an iconic culinary symbol of Montreal Jewry. While everyone agrees that Eastern European Jewish immigrants brought “beygels” to North America, who actually introduced them to Montreal remains a source of great controversy. Chaim (Hyman) Seligman is credited by some with having started Montreal’s first bagel bakery. Born in 1878 in Tsarist Russia, Seligman moved to Canada around 1900, eventually settling just off St. Lawrence Boulevard. His bakery had humble roots, with Seligman delivering bagels by horse and wagon, transported the Russian way – strung together by the dozen. No early records of Seligman’s bakery exist, and evidence in directories only points to Seligman’s working for a Montreal bagel bakery in the 1940s and 50s. Seligman may even have been a driver in the late 1930s for another Montreal bagel bakery, owned by Isadore Shlafman and Jacob Drapkin. Shlafman and Drapkin are also reputed to be the first to introduce bagels to Montreal. Tucked away in the lane at 3835 St. Lawrence, this other Montreal bagel bakery may have opened in 1919, although it only appears in address directories starting in 1932. It served hand-rolled bagels, baked in a wood-fired oven. In 1949, Shlafman moved from St. Lawrence Boulevard to Fairmount Street, where, along with his son, Jack, he expanded his bagel business, known as Fairmount Bagel. It would remain at that location until 1959. Drapkin continued to operate his Montreal bagel bakery on St. Lawrence until 1956. In 1953, Holocaust survivor Myer Lewkowicz began working for Seligman; he did so until he was able to launch his own bagel business, in 1957. Lewkowicz briefly partnered with Shlafman and the store took on the name Fairmount Bagel, despite its location on St. Viateur. Bagels were not yet a very profitable venture and the partnership dissolved by the early 1960s. That store is now known as St. Viateur Bagel. It was sold by Lewkowicz in the 1990s to his apprentice, Joe Morena. Though Italian, Morena earned the nickname “Yosef” due to his impressive grasp of the Yiddish language. Today’s Original Fairmount Bagel Bakery, which reopened in 1979 at its original location on Fairmount Street, is still managed by Shlafman’s grandchildren. St. Viateur’s has served a number of famous visitors, including Prince Charles. One busy Saturday night, Morena received an order for 20 dozen bagels for His Royal Highness. Dismissing it as a prank, he admonished the caller, only to be met by a fleet of limousines and a British naval officer coming for his order. The flustered Morena instructed the officer to “get in line like everyone else,” and Prince Charles was eventually rewarded with a taste of Montreal bagels. The Fairmount Bagel Bakery has its own share of notables; in 2008, Montreal-born astronaut Greg Chamitoff, a relative of the Shlafman family, brought Fairmount Bagel bagels with him aboard the space shuttle Discovery. http://www.juifsdici.ca/en/ http://imjm.ca/location/1054 http://stviateurbagel.com/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8681796.stm http://www.dacodoc.net/video.php?video=bagels (Short documentary on the Montreal Bagel Wars) http://www.seligman.org.il/seligman_bagel.html http://www.forward.com/articles/14502/#ixzz15gkJZ2j2

1897 - All Russia Census Fond: 2706-1-49 / 443 House owner: ZIWJAN, Nocha Mowscha ben Hirsch Bookkeeper 58 of Dvinsk Wife: ZIWJAN, Haja [dau. of ] Noach, 57 SELIGMANN, Mendel [son of ] Meyer, 11 Nephew of Nocha Mowscha ZIWJAN SELIGMANN, Elia Haim [son of ] Meyer Chaim Eliyahu?, 16, born Novo-Alexandrovsk d., Kovno pr. Jacobstadt Nephew of Nocha Mowscha ZIWJAN

Name: Elie Seligman Birth: abt 1878 Departure: Liverpool, England Arrival: 14 Jul 1906 - Montreal, Quebec Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935

Burial - Montreal, Back River Memorial Gardens, King Edwards Section 14 December 1973 Line 17, Grave 29 Burial date 1973-12-14