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Calgary's Emily Csikos scored five goals to ensure victory over Hungary and claim bronze for Canada at the Canada Cup women's water polo tournament in Montreal in December 2011. More on this story HERE.

 

 

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Gabor Dobos, a recent immigrant from Hungary, is banking on baking in Alberta. He has just opened “The Prairie Baker” in St. Albert. For more on his story, click on this Edmonton Journal article: Hungarian Baker brings European Flourish

 

 

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Meanwhile in Regina, Helen Kashap will be making her professional debut with the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s celebration of Franz Liszt's 200th birthday. For the details on the CBC website, click HERE

 

 

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The Canada-Hungary Educational Foundation / Fondation éducative Canada-Hongrie (CHEF), a registered educational charity, was set up in December 2005 to create awareness for Canada’s role in accepting close to 40,000 Hungarian refugees in 1956-57 and highlighting the contributions those refugees eventually made to Canadian life.

 

The short-term focus of the Foundation is on the 50th anniversary of this refugee movement, and the story of their integration - and that of the wider Hungarian Canadian community - into Canadian society. In the longer term, the Foundation will explore the centrality of the refugee experience to Canadian society and identity through educational projects. This website is such a project.

 

The Foundation's objective in developing this site is to foster an appreciation among Canadians of the important role which Canada has played in accepting refugees. It strives to educate Canadians, and indeed people around the world - for websites have no borders - about the positive aspects of the refugee experience and the inestimable value of the contribution of refugees and their descendants to Canadian society. The anniversary year 2006-7 provided a good opportunity for CHEF to draw attention to this by undertaking a number of activities, often in partnership with others. Some of these activities are described on this new website.

 

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You can read about the goals and objectives of CHEF on the original website www.canadahungary.org set up in 2006. That website was started in order to share information about events across Canada during 2006-7 to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival of some 38,000 Hungarian refugees to Canada.

 

In 2007-8 when the Foundation set up its new multi-media website www.hungarianpresence.ca, we stopped regularly updating the original site but those interested in it can still access it from this page as well as by simply clicking on www.canadahungary.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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