At the age of 10, Harry Winberg decided to leave and join his sister who was living in Toronto running a grocery store with her husband.
After Winberg arrived in Toronto, via Hamburg, and New York City, he spoke Yiddish, Russian, Polish, and German but no English.
[2] The housing development consisted of three storeys in an E shape with rooms opening off of long corridors running the length of the building.
By the end of World War I the composition of the building had changed with more tenants being Chinese immigrants and fewer residents being women or children.
[4] In the 1925 Canadian federal election, Winberg ran for the nomination to be the Liberal Party of Canada candidate in Toronto West Centre but withdrew his candidacy.