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Cantor, Max

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Dr. Maxwell Mordecai Cantor was born in Winnipeg on April 1, 1903. He obtained his B.Sc. degree from the University of Manitoba in 1924, and his M.D. in 1929. He pursued post-graduate studies at the Universities of Alberta and Toronto, at the Pratt institute in Boston and at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. For nearly 40 years, Dr. Cantor taught at the University of Alberta. He held the position of Chief Coroner of Alberta for nearly thirty years, and served as Chief Coroner of the Yukon and Northwest Territories as well. Dr. Cantor received the Red Cross Gold Medal in 1941, the Centennial Medal in 1967, and a Government of Alberta achievement award for forensic medicine in 1972. He was a charter member of the Beth Shalom Synagogue and of Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity. He married Edith Rose Secter of Winnipeg in 1936. Edith was long known as a patron of the arts in Edmonton. Max passed away in 1981, Edith in 2001. Their daughter Sharon Abbott is a graphic artist, and their son Paul is the Executive director of the Toronto International Leadership Centre for Financial Sector Supervision.

Cristall, Abe

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Born in 1868 in the Russian province of Bessarabia, Abe Cristall immigrated to Canada in 1890. After landing in Montreal, Mr. Cristall traveled west and worked as a farm labourer near Brandon, Manitoba and then Oxbow, Saskatchewan. Soon after arriving in Saskatchewan, Mr. Cristall began working as a peddler, selling bolts of cloth door-to-door in rural Saskatchewan. In the course of visiting a customer, Mr. Cristall met the customer's daughter, Rebecca Leavitt, and they were married in 1893. The newlywed couple planned to move to Seattle, but Mr. Cristall, after visiting and being enticed by the economic possibilities present, elected to settle in the booming frontier town of Edmonton instead. The Cristalls were the first Jewish residents of Edmonton. Abe Cristall opened his own draying business before becoming a prominent member of the city's economic elite through his involvement in the city's active real estate market. In 1909, Mr. Cristall financed and built the Royal George hotel in the city's downtown. The Cristalls had five children; George, Max, Rose, Jessie and Ted. Abe Cristall died in 1944.

Leibovici, Karen

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Karen Leibovici was born on May 27, 1952. She attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and graduated from there with a Bachelor and Master of Social Work, and a Diploma in Management. She moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1980 and in 1993, was elected to the Alberta Legislature as Liberal MLA for the Edmonton-Meadowlark constituency, a position she held until 2001. She was also active in the Edmonton, Alberta community, being a founding member of the West End Transportation Advisory Committee, and a member of the Youth Emergency Shelter Society, the Social Planning Council Board, and the Chrysalis Business Advisory Council. She also served as chair of the Edmonton Taxicab Commission, was a Block Parent Coordinator and a volunteer for the Summerlea and Aldergrove Community Leagues. She was elected to Edmonton City Council in 2004, as representative for Ward 1. She married to Steve Zepp, and they had one son, Adam.

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