The Czechs and Slovaks in Canada / / John Gellner, John Smerek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gellner, John,; Smerek, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

This is a chronicle of one of the many ethnic groups in Canada, a group of about 80,000 people of Czech and Slovak origin who now live in this country. In the authors' own words, "the book is addressed both to Canadian-Canadians and to Czech-and-Slovak Canadians (if there is such a distinction)." The latter will learn from it who their fellow citizens of similar origin are, where they came from, what they brought to this country, and how they succeeded here. The book provides the "Canadian-Canadian" with a straightforward history of the Czechs and Slovaks, their settlement and cultural organizations, and gives some account of the many Czechs and Slovaks who have made their mark in Canada. It is published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- CHAPTER ONE. Eleven hundred years of recorded history -- CHAPTER TWO. Czech and Slovak settlement in Canada -- CHAPTER THREE. Organization of the ethnic group -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Czechs and Slovaks in present-day Canadian life -- Index