Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement, the Betar youth movement and the Jewish legion of soldiers who fought for the British in World War I (See https://thecjn.ca/arts-culture/on-the-anniversary-of-his-death-treasure-trove-recalls-the-life-and-achievements-of-zeev-jabotinsky/).  In 1940 he visited the United States to stimulate interest in forming a Jewish army to fight alongside the Allies in World War II and to plea for mass emigration of the endangered Jews of Europe to Palestine. His ship docked in Halifax where he took time to meet with members of the Jewish community. It was the fourth time Jabotinsky visited Canada.

While on his tour of America, he visited Camp Betar in the Catskills near Hunter, New York for the weekend. Several hours after reviewing a parade of campers from the Brith Trumpeldor youth movement, just before midnight on Saturday night (August 3, 1940),  he died of a heart attack.........

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