

The basic ingredients are flour, malt flour, sugar, eggs, oil, yeast and water. Chaim's eldest son, Harry, married Chana's daughter Bertha, making understanding the Canadian Seligman family tree a convoluted affair.ĭavid Meyer also remarried and moved with his new wife, Sara Leah Swartzman, to the village of Slobodka (today in Belarus) where Chaim later remarried to Chana (Anna) Dozorchov-Herman, whose first husband had been murdered in a pogrom in Russia. Lawrence Boulevard), Chaim started to bake Bagels for a living, firstly for the Jews living in Lachine and later from premises in a small lane near Schwartz's Deli.Ĭhaim married Freda Ulmeschik, who bore four children before dying during childbirth in 1918. Settling originally just off Jewish Main (St.


Life in the Pale of Settlement was not easy and Chaim, together with his brother Mendel, left for the welcoming shores of Canada at the turn of the twentieth century - changing his name to Seligman. Chaim Zelikman was born in 1878, the first son of David Meyer Zelikman, probably from Dvinsk, a large fortress city on the Dvina River in Czarist Russia (now Daugavpils in Latvia).
