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years in Czar Nicholas II's cavalry, he left Russia for greener pastures in Canada. Here he became the first Jewish student at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph. He went on to open the first creamery in Acton, Ontario where he also owned a tannery and several other businesses.... By 1917, Saxe's creamery was flourishing, so he opened a second in nearby Georgetown, where he moved his growing family. He used his Georgetown farm to run an agricultural school, teaching new immigrants to become farmers.... By 1926, the agricultural classes had turned into the Canadian Jewish Farm School. It was about this time Saxe was approached by Eli Greenblatt of Detroit, who helped run a Jewish orphanage in his home town of Medzhirech. Poland. Greenblatt had heard of Saxe's experience with immigration matters. No longer able to bring his Polish charges into the United States because of the quota restrictions imposed in 1923, Green blatt asked Saxe for help to settle them in Canada. Exploiting the contacts he had built up, Saxe inundated the federal Department of Immigration and Colonization with letters beseeching them to allow the teenage orphans into Canada as farm trainees. When permission was finally granted, Saxe himself footed the bill for the orphans. His wife and two domestics cooked for the children. Esther Blumenfeld, one of the now aged Farm School children who came as a shv 10-year old with the first group of orphans in 1927, recalls her four years in Georgetown fondly. "I never had a home like that. It was wonderful. I didn't have it so good in the Old Country." Fleishman hopes his film will inspire others. "He was a righteous person who acted to save lives. I hope this film will influence people in a positive way." -Today's Seniors, Toronto, September 1996. p38 We will see Mr. Fleischman and see his film on Wednesday 12 March at 7.30 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church. Georgetown. Come to listen and learn or come to share your memories of Morris Saxe of Acton and Georgetown. SUBJECT/OBJECT: Concerning Jewish Farm School at Georgetown, Ontario James F. Kidd FROM/DE Manuscript Division The school was operated by the Federated Jewish Farmers of Ontario and incorporated in Ontario to train Jews interested in agriculture. The files contain photographs of the school and its pupils which are available as well in our Visual and Sound Archives Division. The Farm and Corporation were operated by Morris Saxe who was President. S. Levine of Toronto and later J J. Glass served as Secretary. The farm on which the school was located was known as the "Old Eaton farm". It was located on the West half of lot No. 15 and the East Half of lot no. 14 in the 9th concession of the Township of Esquesing, County of Halton and originally comprised some 207 acres. It appears from the files that they may have acquired an additional 200 acres of land on which they had an option. Funds were raised in Toronto and Montreal at mass meetings to establish the school which had some difficulty in its early years, although apparently there were some adult students trained at the school from the Canadian Jewish community. The school trained in market gardening, poultry raising and dairying. In a memorandum of 22 March 1926 Mr. Saxe is noted as having been in Canada for 25 years farming in western Ontario for some 5 years. He had completed a course in agriculture at the Ontario Agricultural College and operated two farms at that time as well as a creamery. Esquesing Historical Societv Newsletter 2