(fl. 1804), merchant. A member of one of the early Jewish families in Canada, he was one of the signatories to the petition of the citizenry, 12 Nov. 1774, for the repeal of the Quebec Act and the establishment of an elected House of Assembly. He was an early, perhaps the first, Jewish landowner in GC. Isaac Judah, “of the City of Montreal Merchant,” received title to the 200 acres of Lot 24, in the 4th Concession of Lancaster Township, on 27 Feb. 1804. In nearby Cornwall, a certain J. Judah, perhaps of the same family, was “probably the first Jewish settler in the town.” (Senior, Cornwall, 74, 91)

Domesday Book * Archives of Ontario-TP for Lancaster Township * information 1977 from the Canadian Jewish Congress