Dr. Solomon E. Goldman was born in 1899 in London, England. He immigrated to Montreal in 1909. He attended Montreal High School, graduating in 1917; he entered McGill soon after. He graduated in medicine from McGill University in 1922.
Maxwell Goldstein, K.C. was born on May 13, 1863, in Quebec City, Quebec.
He graduated from McGill University in 1882 and studied law in Montreal. In 1903, he was selected a King's counsel and in 1925, he went into partnership with John A. Engel, K.C., and created the law firm of Goldstein and Engel. He was a councilor of the Bar of Montreal in 1922-23 and chairman of the committee on law of the Grand Council, Royal Arcanum of Quebec. He was not only a prominent lawyer, but also a philanthropist and leader in the cause of Reform Judaism in Canada, and president of Temple Emanuel. He was one of the founders of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, a member of the managing committee of the Victorian Order of Nurses and a governor of Montreal General Hospital.
In 1892, he married Rosalie Stern. After her death, he married Adeline Stern in 1925. He died on June 28, 1939, in Montreal, Quebec.
Minnie Gomery was born in Birmingham, England on July 15, 1875. She was the third child of Henry Gumery (he later changed the spelling to Gomery) and his wife Sarah Smith. When Minnie was 9 years of age, the family immigrated to Quebec, finally settling in Montreal in 1892. Around this time, she decided to become a medical missionary of the Anglican Church, and enrolled in medical school at Bishop's University in 1894. Upon her graduation in 1898, Dr. Gomery found her options for work in Montreal severely limited as many hospitals refused to admit women as medical students. Moreover, as a woman she was not permitted to perform surgery, and could gain no practical experience in this area. Deciding that Canada had little to offer her professionally, she spent 18 months in theological and medical training in London under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society. This organization sent her to Kashmir in 1900, where she worked for almost 50 years. Most of her years there were spent at the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Islamabad, but she also worked for a short time as superintendent and teacher in a school for girls. In 1935, she officially retired from medical missionary work and returned to Montreal for a year, but later moved back to Kashmir as a volunteer. She continued her medical missionary work there for another 12 years. Dr. Gomery moved between Kashmir and Montreal for several years after that until permanently settling in Montreal in 1953. She died on March 8, 1967 at the age of 92. Her experiences in Kashmir are chronicled in her 1951 book "Neighbors in Kashmir."
