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Flight and Settlement: the '56ers
On October 23, 1956, a revolution erupted in Hungary which had dramatic effects on Hungarian immigration to Canada and the nature of Hungarian Canadian communities. Hungarian Canadian institutions and organizations had recently absorbed some ten thousand Hungarian displaced persons when the revolution broke out. Relief efforts, sponsorship programs and resettlement programs for new immigrants were renewed.
The revolution caught everyone by surprise. The reaction, however, of Hungarian Canadians, as well as of the general public, was spontaneous and vigorous. At a mass motorcade held in Ottawa on October 29, more than six hundred cars filed past the Russian embassy in silent protest. Most of the demonstrators arrived from Toronto and Montreal. At another demonstration in Toronto, 3,000 people assembled at City Hall for a wreath laying ceremony in honour of those who lost their lives in the revolution...
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