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Bnai Israel Cemetery, 10 Bunting Road, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. 401 burials total.
From the 19th until the early half of the 20th centuries, most of St. Catharines’ Jews were buried in Hamilton, Toronto, or Buffalo, New York. On 21 February 1950, Abraham Newman, Edward Offstein, Aaron Bogomolny, Ralph Hoffman, and Louis Burnstein purchased two acres of land for $1000 on Bunting Road, adjacent to Victoria Lawn Cemetery, near the old locks of the Welland Canal. Congregation B'nai Israel set up a Chevra Kadisha, which was chaired by Mr. R.J. Hoffman and later Mr. B. Sharpe. The Kamin family paid for the construction of a small chapel in memory of Philip Kamin, which was erected around 1952 and could accommodate about 30 people. As a member of the Chevra Kkadisha and because of his skills as a tailor, Morris Slepkov was responsible for constructing the first shroud. By 1975, there were approximately 110 graves in the cemetery.
B'nai Israel Cemetery is owned and managed by Congregation B'nai Israel; the synagogue is located at 190 Church Street; telephone: 905-685-6767; e-mail: office@jewishstcatharines.com; website: www.jewishstcatharines.com
Cemetery chapel
Entrance to cemetery
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