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Aline Gubbay
Born(1920-06-20)June 20, 1920
Alexandria, Egypt
DiedOctober 21, 2005(2005-10-21) (aged 85)
Montreal, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Known forPhotographer, Writer
Spouse
Eric Gubbay
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(m. 1948⁠–⁠1994)​

Aline Gubbay (June 20, 1920 – October 21, 2005)[1] was a Canadian photographer, art historian and writer.

Gubbay was the author of four non-fiction books, Montreal's Little Mountain (1979), The Mountain and the River (1981), A Street Called the Main (1989) and A View of Their Own (1998).

Biography

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Born in Alexandria, Egypt on June 20, 1920[2] Gubbay was the daughter of a Turkish mother and a Russian Jewish father From Georgia.[3][4] In 1924, at the age of four, Gubbay moved with her family to England.[5]

Despite earning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1935, Gubbay pursued a career in photography at the urging of her parents.[1] She studied under photographer Germaine Kahn and had a successful career as a portrait photographer in England.[2] Notably, her photograph of Charles de Gaulle was used on a Free France propaganda leaflet.[1]

In 1948 she married Eric Gubbay and they emigrated to Winnipeg.[1] At that time Gubbay abandoned her photography career.[2] In 1956, with her children grown, the Gubbays moved to Montreal and Aline returned to her education, obtaining a degree from McGill University in social work.[2][1] In 1978 she received her master's degree in art history from Concordia University.[2][5]

Gubbay wrote for the Westmount Examiner on the topic of local history. She was the author of four non-fiction books, Montreal's Little Mountain (1979), The Mountain and the River (1981), A Street Called the Main (1989) and A View of Their Own (1998).[1]

In 2005 Gubbay died of pancreatic cancer in Montreal.[2][1]

Publications

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  • Montreal's Little Mountain =: La Petite Montagne: a Portrait of: un Portrait de Westmount. Westmount: Trillium, 1979. Photographs by Gubbay, maps by Sally Hooff. ISBN 978-0969015901. Translated by Rachel Levy. Text in English and French.
    • Montréal's Little Mountain: a Portrait of Westmount. Montreal: Optimum, 1985. ISBN 9780888901750. Text in English and French.
  • Montréal: le Fleuve et la Montagne; the Mountain and the River. Montreal: Trillium, 1981. Text and photographs by Gubbay. ISBN 9780969015918. Text in English and French.
  • A Street Called the Main: the Story of Montreal's Boulevard Saint-Laurent. Montreal: Meridian, 1989. ISBN 9780929058078.
  • A View of Their Own: The Story Of Westmount. Montreal: Price-Patterson, 1998. ISBN 9781896881102.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Hustak, Alan. "Aline Gubbay: 'Westmount historian ' loved this city'". National Post. www.pressreader.com. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Gubbay, Aline". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  3. ^ Aline Gubbay: Historian Of Montreal Dies, History News Network, 2005, retrieved April 12, 2021, A silk merchant's daughter, Alice Helfer was born in Alexandria, Egypt on June 20, 1920. Her mother was Turkish, her father, a Russian Jew from Georgia.
  4. ^ Publications about Westmount, A View of Their Own: The Story of Westmount, retrieved April 12, 2021, A silk merchant's daughter, Aline Gubbay was born in Alexandria, Egypt on June 20, 1920. Her mother was Turkish, her father, a Jew from Georgia (formerly part of the Soviet Union). She and her family moved to England when she was 4... In 1948, she met and married Eric Gubbay, a cardiologist originally from Calcutta, and they emigrated to Winnipeg.
  5. ^ a b "The Aline Gubbay Fonds". Jewish Montreal of Yesterday. Jewish Public Library Archives. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
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