Living Slovaks
Living Slovaks There are less than five years to the beginning of another millennium; less than five years to consider what the Slovak community in Canada will be like in the year 2,000. ... Slovaks live all over Canada so that you cant point to any one place and say that is the Slovak district, the way one can point to an area and say that is the Chinese district where many Chinese-descent people live or that is the Italian or Jewish district. There are just not enough of us to make a visible impression that Slovaks are here in numbers. Slovaks made an impression beyond their numbers prior to 1968. ... It is often only after that the first generation immigrant seeks out other Slovaks and considers attending events. ... Despite there being 120,000 Slovaks in Canada, there are less than 10,000 who attend Slovak churches or who have joined Slovak organizations. ... We need to re-establish the Slovak identity so that people in the future will identify themselves not just as Canadians but as Slovaks! ... Our Slovak priests, Lutheran and Catholic, have had a difficult time ministering unto our elderly who are spread across Metropolitan Toronto, and they would like nothing better than to have a couple of homes centrally located in which Slovaks would be the principal residents.