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BALÁZS VENKOVITS government, but the efforts and regulations of the mother country could not stop him from leaving his native land. Ihe introduction of the guota system is the United States, however, closed one of the main destinations in front of him and thus he had to look for alternatives. Canada presented one such alternative and the overtly positive image of the country disseminated via pamphlets, posters, and personal meetings with agents, coupled with stories of fellow villagers, finally persuaded him that the long voyage across the Atlantic would be worth the risk. Ihe stages of history (depression, another world war and communism), however, stopped him from completing his original plan and his family was never fully reunited again. Although the father returned to the home country, the siblings in Canada and Hungary remained separated for the rest of their lives. Statistics, policy overviews and ship manifests tell us the key moments of major waves of migration between Hungary and Canada; the true force of the migration process, however, may be best revealed when retelling individual stories that expose the personal and often tragic side of migration. BIBLIOGRAPHY ---, Esterház, Magyar Colonia, Éjszak-nyugati Tartományok, Kanada. Levelek a telepesektől s fényképfelvételek, melyeket a helyszínen vettek fel 1902, július havában, Ottawa, Kormányzósági nyomda, 1902. BENCSIK, Péter, Útiokmányok, utazási lehetőségek és határforgalom a 20. századi Magyarországon, Regio, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2002). CANADIAN Pacific Railway, Angol (Hungarian-English) (a helyes angol kiejtés pontos feltüntetésével: amit egy tanyán tudnia kell: a telepítési és Fejlesztési Osztály által elöterjesztve, Budapest, Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, 1900?. CUNARD Steamship Company, Kanada: hogy utazzunk a Cunard Line vöröskéményes gyorshajóival közvetlenül Kanadába. Budapest, Magyarországi Főiroda, 1910?. DANIELS, Roger, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, New York, Perennial, 2002. DETRE, Laura A., Canada’s Campaign for Immigrants and The Images in Canada West Magazine, Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring 2004), 113-129. DoJjcsÁK, Győző, A kanadai Esterházy története, Budapest, Magvető, 1981. DREISZIGER, Nándor E. (et al.), Struggle and Hope: The Hungarian-Canadian Experience, Toronto, McClelland, 1982. * 120°
