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| A történelem országútján – Naplók, levelek, visszaemlékezések
- Issue: 2019/3
- Starting page: 34
- Author: Kóka Rozália
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On History’s Road – Ferenc Gergely was born in Hadikfalva/Dornești, Bukovina in 1908. In 1927 he decided to immigrate to Western Canada to join other Bukovina Székely folks trying to make a new life in the province of Saskatchewan. He went first to the tiny town of Cupar where others from his village had settled. “Poor people went there from Bukovina, everyone was escaping the poverty, but they also found poverty in Canada.” After working as a farmhand for many years, in 1943 he was able to buy pastureland and began raising pigs and cattle. He married in 1954 and eventually moved into Regina. His first trip to Hungary to visit relatives was in 1988, when he told his story to Kóka Rozália.