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Lyon Cohen
Lyon Cohen (1868-1937) was a Polish-born Canadian businessman and a philanthropist. He is the grandfather of singer/poet Leonard Cohen.
==Biography==
Cohen was born in Budwitcher, Poland to an ethnic Jewish family on May 11, 1868.〔(The Quebec History Encyclopedia: Lyon Cohen ) retrieved April 22, 2012〕 He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1871.〔 He was educated at the McGill Model School and the Catholic Commercial Academy in Montreal.〔 In 1888, he entered the firm of Lee & Cohen in Montreal; later became partner with his father in the firm of L. Cohen & Son; in 1895, he established W. R. Cuthbert & Co; in 1900, he organized the Canadian Improvement Co., a dredging contractor; in 1906, he founded The Freedman Co. in Montreal; and in May 1919, he organized and became President of Canadian Export Clothiers, Ltd.〔 The Freedman Company went on to become one of Montreal’s largest clothing companies.〔(Museum of Jewish Montreal: "Lyon Cohen - Freedman Company" ) retrieved September 6, 2014〕
In 1897, Cohen co-founded with Samuel William Jacobs, the ''Canadian Jewish Times'', the first English language Jewish newspaper in Canada.〔(Cohen, Lyon ) Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives〕 The newspaper promoted the Canadianization of recent East European Jewish immigrants and encouraged their acceptance of Canadian customs〔 as Cohen felt that the old world customs of immigrant Jews were one of the main causes of anti-Semitism.〔 In 1914, the paper was purchased by Hirsch Wolofsky, owner of the Yiddish language Keneder Adler, who transformed it into the Canadian Jewish Chronicle.〔
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