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BALÁZS VENKOVITS (perhaps due to the influence of various publications discussed below) to start a new life in Canada. His attitude and life also follows the pattern of many other immigrants: he went to North America to earn money to be able to buy land and property back home when he returned. Ihe migration of his family also fits into the pattern described by Puskas: siblings in large families migrated separately, often several years apart, and married men most often returned to their families in Hungary.” Andräs’ original plan might have been to bring the whole family to Canada once migration was possible for the younger members. According to the passenger list, which included a rubric for the address of the contact person, by the time his eldest daughter migrated in 1930, Andras was already living in Montreal, His second daughter Theresa also followed her father; both of the daughters married, settled down in Canada, and never returned to Hungary. Andras did return to the rest of the family, his wife and younger children (Béla, Piroska, and Borbala), invested his money earned in Canada into land and a small grocery store, only to be swept away by nationalization during Communist times. Figure 3: Elizabeth Takacs’s immigration identification card issued in 1930. Photo courtesy of Shawn Danko. 35 Daniels, Coming to America, 234-235. e 110"
