Aaron David Meldola de Sola (Hebrew: אהרן דוד מלדולא די סולה; 22 November 1853 – 29 April 1918) was the first native-born Canadian rabbi.
[1] He succeeded his father Abraham de Sola as leader of the Shearith Israel synagogue in Montreal upon the latter's death in 1882.
On a number of occasions he was invited to deliver sermons at the Congregation Shearith Israel in New York and Bevis Marks Synagogue in London.
At the conventions held in 1900 and 1903, he was elected first vice-president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the United States and Canada, and chairman of the Committee on Presentations of Judaism.
[citation needed] De Sola published a large number of pamphlets on Jewish subjects, as well as articles in newspapers and magazines.