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Interview of Eddie Duke by Marlene Gamble July, 2003

However, Breland continued the business in Kirkland Lake and employed several of his relatives who came and worked there in the early days. Joe Dash came from Montreal. He was a nephew of Mrs. Rosenberg's, who was running Perkus Limited at the time and things, with height of, the depression was on in Montreal and Joe was, the family was having a fairly hard time. He came to Kirkland Lake and went to work for his uncle who ran a clothing business which he did very well at. Eventually, he went off on his own but he learned everything he knew about clothing working for Morris Breland and working with Bernie Breland.

Bernie came home from the university. He was a university boy at one stage. He went to university in Toronto and came back to Kirkland Lake to work for his dad. Things got very difficult. They had a family home, Breland established a family home in Toronto because there were three daughters in the family and they were hoping to find suitable matches and that was impossible in Kirkland Lake in those days. You know, they were looking for Jewish boys and there weren't too many.