This is an accepted version of this page Joseph Schubert (1889 - 7 March 1952)[1] was a Canadian politician, who served on Montreal City Council from 1924 to 1939.
[2] Originally from Romania, Schubert was a prominent labour unionist in the city,[3] and was the only Labour Party representative on Montreal's city council.
[2] One of his first prominent actions as a city councillor was a speech protesting police harassment of participants in the city's 1924 May Day parade.
[4] In 1931, he built a public bathhouse at the corner of Bagg and St. Lawrence, which still stands today as the Schubert Bath (official French name: Bain Schubert).
Until the appointment of Michael Applebaum as interim mayor in 2012, he was the highest ranking Jewish official in the history of Montreal's municipal government.