NEW YORK
W. L. Berry, representing Ryrie-Birks, Ltd., Toronto, and George W. Cavey with Henry Birks & Sons, Ltd., Montreal, were visitors in this city, last week, and were callers at the offices of The Jewelers’ Circular.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 31st January 1929
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Henry Birks & Sons of Canada
Re: Henry Birks & Sons of Canada
Henry Birks & Sons, Montreal, have purchased outright for the sum of $29,000 the Winnipeg Young Men’s Christian Association building on Portage Ave. This firm has already a fine store on Main St., but W. M. Birks, who has just returned to Montreal from a business trip through the northwest, foresees that trade is tending along Portage Ave., hence the purchase of the Y. M. C. A. building. It forms a corner lot, having a frontage on Portage Ave. of 88 feet and a depth of 130 feet. The building will be immediately remodelled to suit the requirements of its present owners but as the purchase was only concluded on Friday afternoon no definite plans have yet been drawn up.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th September 1909
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th September 1909
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Re: Henry Birks & Sons of Canada
Henry Birks & Sons, Ltd., Montreal, have issued a writ against R. C. Henry, Ottawa, Ont., in the Circuit Court, for $286.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th October 1909
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th October 1909
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Re: Henry Birks & Sons of Canada
V. M. Birks Heads Veterans Ass'n
Victor M. Birks, Henry Birks & Co, Ltd., jewelers, Montreal, Canada, was nominated president of the Air Force Veterans’ Association of Montreal at a meeting of the newly-elected directors. When approved at the next general meeting, Mr. Birks will be the first veteran of the late war to hold the position.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - March 1947
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Victor M. Birks, Henry Birks & Co, Ltd., jewelers, Montreal, Canada, was nominated president of the Air Force Veterans’ Association of Montreal at a meeting of the newly-elected directors. When approved at the next general meeting, Mr. Birks will be the first veteran of the late war to hold the position.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - March 1947
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Re: Henry Birks & Sons of Canada
Canadian Visits Gem Mines
The first Canadian to become a qualified gemologist, J. Lovell Baker, vice-president of Henry Birks & Sons, recently described his 23,000 mile air trip to Europe and Africa in search of diamonds.
Admitting that he did get the diamonds he had set out to get he regretted that he had not bought more for immediately after his visit prices went up.
Mr. Baker denied that the South African diamond syndicates had any gems in reserves. “I visited the big syndicates in Johannesburg,” he said, “and was told that they are mining to capacity and selling every diamond. The supply is far too short.”
He pointed out that the cost of diamonds was divided 80 per cent labor (cutting cost) and 20 per cent diamond. A diamond cutter in Antwerp before the war earned about $50 a week but recently, in New York, diamond cutters were earning between $150 and $200 a week. “The only change in the price of diamonds,” he added, “will be increased labor charges.”
Mr. Baker, who has visited Europe and other continents many times before by sea, described his first trans-Atlantic air crossing from the time he left New York until he arrived at Montreal Airport.
From New York he flew to Ireland, then on to southern England, and pointed out that the 90-mile trip by rail to London took longer than the 1,200 mile air trip from New York to Newfoundland. He gave his impressions of war-torn London and other British centers and remarked particularly the good humor of the Britons under difficult conditions of food, travel, queues and bombing.
From London, Mr. Baker flew to the continent where he visited Paris, Brussels and Antwerp. Paris and Antwerp he found depressing because the black market was rampant. Parisians were dissatisfied with their government and everyone was down in the mouth. In Antwerp the most depressing observations was the terrible destruction wrought by German shelling after the liberation by the Allies.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - January 1947
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The first Canadian to become a qualified gemologist, J. Lovell Baker, vice-president of Henry Birks & Sons, recently described his 23,000 mile air trip to Europe and Africa in search of diamonds.
Admitting that he did get the diamonds he had set out to get he regretted that he had not bought more for immediately after his visit prices went up.
Mr. Baker denied that the South African diamond syndicates had any gems in reserves. “I visited the big syndicates in Johannesburg,” he said, “and was told that they are mining to capacity and selling every diamond. The supply is far too short.”
He pointed out that the cost of diamonds was divided 80 per cent labor (cutting cost) and 20 per cent diamond. A diamond cutter in Antwerp before the war earned about $50 a week but recently, in New York, diamond cutters were earning between $150 and $200 a week. “The only change in the price of diamonds,” he added, “will be increased labor charges.”
Mr. Baker, who has visited Europe and other continents many times before by sea, described his first trans-Atlantic air crossing from the time he left New York until he arrived at Montreal Airport.
From New York he flew to Ireland, then on to southern England, and pointed out that the 90-mile trip by rail to London took longer than the 1,200 mile air trip from New York to Newfoundland. He gave his impressions of war-torn London and other British centers and remarked particularly the good humor of the Britons under difficult conditions of food, travel, queues and bombing.
From London, Mr. Baker flew to the continent where he visited Paris, Brussels and Antwerp. Paris and Antwerp he found depressing because the black market was rampant. Parisians were dissatisfied with their government and everyone was down in the mouth. In Antwerp the most depressing observations was the terrible destruction wrought by German shelling after the liberation by the Allies.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - January 1947
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