Canada: R MM Sand #2- Dalfen clothing stores in various cities, Bathurst, etc - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

with Rabbak Mendel Sand. This is the second part of an interview on our program meaningful interviews. Please continue now telling us about your early years in Canada. Your early years in Canada. Yeah. Wait the story. You have to hear the end of the story with the Shiva. Oh, I'm sorry. Continue. Which what happened? They waited till the end of the war. Well, yeah. 1918 the war ended. There was a big big parade in Roitz. Soldiers were coming home from the from the battle, right? There were marching in the streets. My mother says, I knew they were going to have their father. My father wasn't coming home because he had supposedly died died. She says, "I was standing at the window with my nose up against the window and the window getting fogged up." Right. And two hours later, he walked in. My grandfather walked in. He had been injured. He was in a hospital before the email before the thing, right? No contact, right? And he lived another 12 years. He lived another 12 years. Wow. Right. What a story. Okay. Now, tell us about your your early years in Canada. So my father became partners with Uncle Morris. Yes. They ran the store in Delhauszy. Yes. And then they heard about a town called Baths. So they said, "Let's open a branch." He said, "Myer, you'll run the branch there." So he went to Bath. He found a store and he rented it. After he rented the store, they decided to divide up. Morris kept the store in Delhauszy. My father got the store in Baths and they lived happily ever after. This store, I'll give you a little story. There was a town near Delhauszy and a fellow by the name of Go ahead. What was Uncle Lizz's partner? Who was Uncle Lizz's partner? One of Satie. Sadie was her name. Oh, he was partners with the auntie Sarah's uh parents. No, not that one. Anyway, whatever. Glickman was his name. Wow. He was that great. He was single. He was single. And Uncle Morris was single. And every Tuesday they used to go to the movies. And every time they came to go to the mu movies, Uncle Morris who owned the store ran ahead and bought the tickets. This went on and on and on. One day they came and Glickman ran ahead and says, "No, no, Morris, not today." And he ran ahead and he bought one ticket. Uncle Morris used to buy for him. Always bought one. Daddy, tell them how how everyone had a store in different districts and what they did. We had a store in Baths. Uncle Moors had in Delhauszy. By the way, these were all mill towns. They all had mills where they used to manufacture paper. There was lots of lumber and so there was a a mill in Ba. There was a mill in in Delhauszy and Regina Rifka who married Uncle Julius had a store in Campbellton. Campbellton was 16 miles from Delhauszy. Every Wednesday afternoon the stores were closed. That was the law in in New Brunswick. Every Wednesday afternoon we all met. One week we met in Delhauszy. One week we met in Baths. Hamilton Bathers. Auntie Clara lived in Edmonson. Mhm. Edmonston was 120 miles from Camel. She was pract with Uncle Joe and they had a fight and they had a fight and they didn't talk for a long time. They never involved the kids. Uncle Jack Hutman was a tight wad. He was always very very tight money. Every time I came from Ba'ist to Montreal to visit our parents. We passed through these towns, stopped in Cabon, stopped in Delhausy, stopped in Edmonson. Remember once I came I come and I'm going to the store in Edmonson where Uncle Jack was. Store was full of customers. Store was full of customers. What do you do? You're at your uncle store. Took off my jacket and started to serve customers. So, I see a guy standing next to the pant rack where the pants were, right? I go over and I look at the pants and I see there's no cost mark. We used to mark all our clothing with the cost in Hebrew. Oh, yeah. All of Kimmel Dal was our code, right? Here I take out a pair of pants. Stay good. No code, right? Why is there no code? Because it doesn't cost nothing. Why doesn't it cost nothing? Because he buys from peerless clothing sold suits with two pair of pants. Ah, one pair of pants they hung on this rack with the suit and one one pair of pants went on the pant rack. Pants were about $9.95. Take the pants. The guy says, "Yes, I'll take them." I go to the cashier. To the cashier. Who's the cashier? Uncle Jack, right? And he takes it and I make out the bill. $9.95, 30 cents tax, 1025. All the stores we used to bargain. Discount here, discount. Uncle Jack sees what I do. 9.95 30 cent tax and he looks at me and he says shame what did I do so the guy comes to pay so he takes from him only the 995 gives him back the 30 cent Now it was Shane. Now Shane, that's pretty good for a tight wad. What? That's pretty good for a tight wad. You got to give them You got to give him credit. Daddy, tell them on Sundays it used to get together every shot after. Yeah. What else can I tell about your polio? One second. One second. I want to I have a question now. What type of what type of yiddishkite and learning was available at that time? When I was four years old in Baths, my father went to Montreal and he found a malamut. He took the malamut back to Ba said to him, "You're going to teach my children because there's no no Jewish schools. didn't have a So he worked in the store during the week. Who? This is Mamemed. Yeah, he worked in the store and then and he taught in the afternoon. He taught We were six kids. So he taught us in the in the afternoons. Who was the Mhammed? His name was Mr. Neran Nan was uh when did you move back to Murphy? His brother 1946. My sister Shaunie became 13 years old. Well, you were 13 in 1946. No, you were born in 1933. 34. 34. Oh, sorry. You're 12. My sister Shaie became 13 years old. My mother looked at her and said to my father, "She can't grow up fishy. She's got a shape already." She said, "We have to move out." So she sent my father to Montreal. Yes. My father went to Montreal. He found a house and he bought it on D Rochet Street. I know that street. And we and we moved to Montreal. That was 1946. 46. My grandfather traveled every week. And my father every two weeks took the train on the Ocean Limited, went back to the store. The store was still operating. And it was family allowance time. The province of New Brunswick gave a family allowance to people who had children. First child, second child, third child. So my father wanted always to be in the store when the people got their checks. So when they got their checks, wanted to be there. So he uh he took the train and went back every second week he was in the store and he said it was 800 miles. Yeah. Yeah. An overnight was an overnight train. He used to fly travel the whole night and come in the morning to sleep on the train. Yeah. Daddy, tell them where where you learned to loadage. What years? One second. Hold on.