User:Eino81/Hungarians in Manitoba
Manitoban Hungarians are Hungarian Canadians living in Manitoba. After the Canada 2006 Census there lives 9,900 people in Manitoba, who have Hungarian roots or were born in Hungary.[1]
In 1996 there lives 9,025 Hungarians in Manitoba. [2]
History[edit]
The first wave of the Hungarian immigrant reached Manitoba in 1885. By 1900 a lot of hungarians arrived to Winnipeg. In 1906 the Hungarian Presbyterian church was establisher there. The first Hungarian newspaper in Canada was published in Winnipeg in 1905: Kanadai Magyarság ('Canadian Hungarians').[3] During the First World War, citizens of enemy allies were interned. Between 1918 and 1924 the Hungarian clubs in Winniped were very active. By 1920 there were only 13,181 Hungarians in the whole country, most of them in Saskatchewan, only a few in Manitoba. The second wave of the immigartion came at the inter-war years. The new immigrants established to Roman Catholic church and the Protestant church in 1924. A new newspaper was founded: Kanadai Magyar Újság ('Canadian Hungarian Newspaper'). In 1927 Hungarian consulate was opened in Winnipeg.
Notable Hungarians in Manitoba[edit]
- Julius T. Csotonyi - paleoartist and illustrator
- Maria Gomori - pioneer in family therapy
- David Gratzer - psychiatrist
- John Marlyn - writer
- Emőke Szathmáry - 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manitoba
References[edit]
- ^ "Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada, 2006". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
- ^ "Az 1996. évi kanadai népszámlálás adataiból". Retrieved 2010-02-15.
- ^ "Address to the Commemoration in Winnipeg of the 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising: 22 October 2006". Retrieved 2006-10-22.
External links[edit]
- Karpat Hungarian Folk Dancers of Winnipeg
- Address to the Commemoration in Winnipeg of the 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising: 22 October 2006
Category:Hungarian diaspora Category:Hungarian diaspora in Canada