Walerstein’s Ice Cream Parlor, circa. 1923.  Abraham Walerstein worked in a cigar factory in Montreal before moving to Hamilton, and later to Toronto. He opened Walerstein’s Ice Cream Parlour at 332 Spadina Ave. in Toronto in 1917—just as Kensington Market’s Jewish population was beginning to swell.

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Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto