This concise but detailed NFB documentary serves as both a time capsule from when the film was made, and the quintessential filmic telling of the community’s first century. While offering a chronological history, from the first wave of Jewish immigrants in 1882 to the the General strike of 1919 and beyond, the film is also a colourful mosaic, as it visits with union organizers, comedian David Steinberg and his family, men at the local pool room and an eclectic bunch of others who discuss the unique character of their community and its evolution.