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| | hungarians in alberta |
 | | Hungarian immigration to Alberta during the 1920s and 1930s is characterized -- in addition to the immigrants working in mining -- by farming settlements: in 1931, 69% of the Hungarian immigrants to Alberta lived in rural areas (Palmer and Palmer 306). |
 | | In Alberta generally, in the period between the 1930s to the late-1940s, the Canadian-Hungarian population actually declined (Palmer and Palmer 319) and as there is evidence that many Canadian Hungarians moved from rural areas to Edmonton, this influx resulted in the formation of the Canadian-Hungarian community of Edmonton. |
 | | However, while the Palmers contend that in Alberta, generally, "by the end of the war, Hungarian left wing political activity and commitment ebbed" (319), in the case of Edmonton's Canadian Hungarians, interestingly, it appears that by the end of the war it was exactly their leftist orientation that initiated the will to organise community life. |
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