The Ontario Jewish Archives (OJA) is a community archives and the central repository for records related to Ontario's Jewish community.
[1] The OJA maintains records dating back to the 1850s, including photographs, newspapers and minute books.
[4][5] What became the OJA began as two file cabinets in a change room at the Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue in Toronto.
[2] The archives were officially formed in 1973 as part of a collaboration between the Toronto Jewish Historical Society and the Canadian Jewish Congress (Central Region).
[5][1] Since 1992, the archives has operated as a department of the United Jewish Appeal Federation of Toronto.