Séries S7 - Background research materials

The series consists of Imrich Stolarik's personal collections of materials as correspondence, texts and notes, essays, photographs, clippings. obtained from several important figures within the Slovak-Canadian community, as background research materials for his books chronicling the history of the Canadian Slovak League, and for his numerous articles and papers on Canadian Slovak immigration. Major components of these auxiliary files are the papers of Andrej Kucera (1899-1974), founding President of the Canadian Slovak League, facilitator and active advocate of Slovak life and culture within Canadian Slovak communities; of Gabriel Kurdel (1898-1980) (born in Svëty Križ Nad Hronom, Slovakia), co-founder of the Canadian Slovak League, founder of several Slovak fraternal-benefit societies in Canada, and initiator of several Slovak-language newspapers within Canadian-Slovak communities; and those of Juraj Rondoš (1900-1985), co-founder of the Canadian Slovak League and most important sponsor of hundreds of Slovak immigrants after World War II. Smaller auxiliary files include archival documents from other well known Canadian-Slovak pioneers: Jozef Ferančík, Ján Lukáč, Karol Murgaš, Peter Šuffák, et Jozef Šapák.