Talk:David Oppenheimer

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 * was a successful entrepreneur, and the second mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia.

I'd add "and the first elected official in the province (and/or colony?) of Jewish origin. Morris Moss may have had an elected post in Victoria beforehand though.  Were tehre any other Jewish elected officials in BC before Dave Barrett?  If not something like "not until Dave Barrett etc. might be a propos''.Skookum1 (talk) 15:58, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Moss it turns out was appointed only, though in various capacities.Skookum1 (talk) 15:58, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Henry Nathan was elected MP for Victoria in 1872. fishhead64 (talk) 01:05, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

cardsharp story and election history
There are two bits about the Oppenheimers I remember from Alan Morley's Vancouver: From Milltown to Metropolis, if someone would care to find it in VPL or at MacLeod's and add the quotes/cites:
 * one concerns a cardgame in the pre-city days concerning the Gastown ingroup of which the Oppenheimers were a part and like most were veterans of the Cariboo goldfields unlike newcomers from "the Canadas". A fellow gambler had dozed off in one of GAstown's endless poker games (stone drunk probably) and upon waking up said "who bid?"  so-and-so (Ikey" '- Isaac, was the answer" - who bid? "Jimmy" (James) .  The gambler said "I fold", as it was a given that Gastowners were sharks of the first order


 * the other is about the railroading of the election campaign for the first mayoralty, which was one when Ontarian MacLean's supporters ran off the Chinese voters that Oppenheimer's Gstowner-backed campaign crew were ushering to the vote.Skookum1 (talk) 15:58, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Oppenheimer Bros. & Christmas Oranges
The Vancouver Courier has an article August 15, 2008 entitled [Changing Tastes] which deals with the contribution of Oppenheimer Bros to Vancouver's diet: Much of the approximately 2,500 tons of cargo that arrived on each of the Empress steamships was loaded onto CPR trains, which carried it to points east. But some of it wound up in the Powell Street warehouse of David and Isaac Oppenheimer, whose Oppenheimer Bros. wholesale business dealt in "fancy and staple groceries, cigars, tobaccos, teas and sundries."

In 1891, Oppenheimer Bros. added what were then known simply as "Japanese oranges" to its line of imported produce. The first shipments from the Japanese firm Seitaro Arai and Co. came in nine-pound wooden crates, with each orange wrapped in tissue paper. --Opendna (talk) 16:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Synagogues
I suspect but am not sure that Oppenheimer and his brothers were members of Congregation Emanu-El (Victoria, British Columbia); can anyone confirm that? If so please add mention to the "notable members" section on that page. And also it would be nice to specify which of Vancouver's synagogues they donated the land for...I'm thinking Beth Israel maybe, rather than Schara Tzedeck, but IIRC there was an older synagogue in the Strathcona area....Skookum1 (talk) 16:00, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * i did a quick poke around, and Beth Israel bought their site from the CPR, so it wasn't them. The first synagogue in Vancouver was B'nai Yehudah (Sons of Israel), built in 1911 at Pender and Heatley. A new building was erected there in 1921 and renamed Schara Tzedeck, which moved in the 1940s to its present location. The original building became Gibbs Gym and was later turned into condos. Given this was Oppenheimer territory, it's likely the site Oppenheimer Bros. donated land for, though not during David's time. bobanny (talk) 17:38, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Congregation Schara Tzedeck has a wikipedia page, I urge you to add the information you found.Historicist (talk) 19:52, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

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