This Jewish Family Built a Grocery Empire in Montreal — Then Couldn't Stop Fighting Over It

How did a separated immigrant mother with two hundred dollars of stock build the company that gave Quebec its everyday word for grocery shopping? In January 1917 Ida Steinberg opened a store at 1451 Boulevard Saint-Laurent and put all six of her children behind the counter. Her son Sam built it into the province's largest chain. — SOURCES: "ROTH, IDA (Steinberg)" — Dictionary of Canadian Biography https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/roth_ida_17E.html "Steinberg" — Encyclopaedia Judaica, via Encyclopedia.com https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/steinberg "Steinberg Incorporated" — International Directory of Company Histories, via Encyclopedia.com https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/steinberg-incorporated "Quebec" — Jewish Virtual Library https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quebec "After Mr. Sam" — National Film Board of Canada https://www.nfb.ca/film/after_mr_sam/ "Corporation" — National Film Board of Canada https://www.nfb.ca/collection/corporation/ "Growth" — National Film Board of Canada https://www.nfb.ca/film/growth/ "Samuel Steinberg" — Jewish General Hospital https://www.jgh.ca/about-us/history/past-presidents/samuel-steinberg/ "Mr. Sam Steinberg" — The Governor General of Canada https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-3446 "Mitzi and Mel Dobrin" — Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, biography by Harold M. Waller https://www.klinkhoff.ca/blog/8284/ "The dangerous feud at Steinberg" — Maclean's, 25 January 1988 https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1988/1/25/the-dangerous-feud-at-steinberg "A struggle for Steinberg" — Maclean's, 24 July 1989 https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1989/7/24/a-struggle-for-steinberg "A troubled hero" — Maclean's, 23 July 1990 https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1990/7/23/a-troubled-hero "Steinberg supermarket chain" — Montréal Signs Project https://www.montrealsignsproject.ca/sign/steinberg "The ghosts of Steinberg's" — Spacing Montreal https://spacing.ca/montreal/2008/12/24/the-ghosts-of-steinbergs/ "Steinberg: The Breakup of a Family Empire" (Macmillan of Canada, 1990), Ann Gibbon and Peter Hadekel — the full contemporaneous account of the succession dispute and the sale