Harbord Bakery

About Harbord Bakery

Who was Goldie before she was Mrs. Kosower, ma bubie , the lady always there behind the bakery counter?
 Golda Elster was born in 1911 at Amstev, Poland a shtetl which was a village like so many other Jewish villages. She was the second oldest of 7 children: Fishl, Sally,Pessi, Dobra, Geyla and Hana. She was chosen by her family to immigrate to Canada. It was 1927 and she was 15 years old. It was on Lippincott Street that she met and began to live with her aunt, uncle and grandmother who had come to Canada some years before.