In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
18 September 1920, Newark, New Jersey, USA
1 October 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
18 March 1869, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, UK
1910 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
29 October 1947, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
15 May 1918, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
May 23, 1916 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1 December 1899, Kamenets-Podolsky, Russian Empire [now Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine]
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
28 September 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1932, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
May 12, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
31 May 1922, Ealing, London, England, UK
c. 1913 in Poland

