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Turning of the Sod Ceremony, 1966

a black-and-white-photograph of three men in suits holding a shovel.

Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives.

Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat, Mayor of Westmount M. L. Tucker. and Synagogue President Dr. Harry Ballon, sharing the ceremonial shovel at the turning of the sod ceremony (1966) which kicked off construction on the expansion of the Shaar’s building.