Footprints: The Hungarian Legacy in Canada

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In 1867 four British North American colonies united to form the Dominion of Canada. Soon other British territories joined this confederation and Canada stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. Since vast regions of this land were sparsely populated one priority of this new country's governments became the promotion of immigration. During the next century-and-a-half Canada became a nation of immigrants.
Hungarians were one of the peoples who formed a part of the influx of newcomers to Canada. Starting with the 1880s they began to settle in this land, at first mainly in the Prairie West. From modest beginnings they had grown into an ethnic group whose members, when counting those who have mixed parentage too, number over three hundred thousand.
This little book tries to tell their story from the time they lived on Canada's agricultural, lumber, and mining frontier to recent decades when the predominant majority of them reside in the country's metropolitan areas. Special... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In 1867 four British North American colonies united to form the Dominion of Canada. Soon other British territories joined this confederation and Canada stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. Since vast regions of this land were sparsely populated one priority of this new country's governments became the promotion of immigration. During the next century-and-a-half Canada became a nation of immigrants.
Hungarians were one of the peoples who formed a part of the influx of newcomers to Canada. Starting with the 1880s they began to settle in this land, at first mainly in the Prairie West. From modest beginnings they had grown into an ethnic group whose members, when counting those who have mixed parentage too, number over three hundred thousand.
This little book tries to tell their story from the time they lived on Canada's agricultural, lumber, and mining frontier to recent decades when the predominant majority of them reside in the country's metropolitan areas. Special attention is paid to the contributions they had made to Canada's evolution from a provider of staples and resources to a diverse nation with a modern economy and sophisticated culture.


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Nándor Dreisziger came to Canada in 1956 as a refugee. He received his post-secondary education at the University of Toronto and taught history for nearly four decades at the Royal Military College of Canada. He published widely on North American and Hungarian subjects. His most recent book deals with church and society in Hungary and the Hungarian Diaspora (University of Toronto Press, 2016). His current interest is the historiography of Hungarian origins. Vissza