'Myer changed my life': Montrealer brings St-Viateur bagel-maker's legacy to Vermont

Jan 2 2019 - If you're ever in Burlington, Vt., you might come across a little piece of Montreal: Myer's Bagel shop.

It's named after Myer Lewkowicz, a Polish Montrealer and Holocaust survivor who, in 1957, founded St-Viateur Bagel.

Montrealer Lloyd Squires founded Myer's Bagels in the 1990s, after spending years working at St-Viateur and learning everything from Myer himself and his successor, Joe Morena.

Squires named his shop in honour of Myer, who plucked him off the streets as a troubled teen and helped give him purpose.

"Myer changed my life," he told CBC Montreal's Daybreak. "I respect the man, [a] great man who helped a lot of people."

Read the article:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/myer-changed-my-life-montrealer-brings-st-viateur-bagel-maker-s-legacy-to-vermont-1.4963069