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The Imrich Stolárik fonds is a collection of primary documents created and/or obtained by Imrich Stolárik over a lifetime of activities as engaged Slovak nationalist, a prolific writer and editor, an active member, senior officer and honorary life President of the Canadian Slovak League (CSL), a respected lobbyist on the Canadian political scene, and a pillar of Slovak life across Canada.

A major portion of the Imrich Stolárik fonds consists of documents personally created and/or collected by Mr. Stolárik, from the time of his arrival in Canada (1951) to the time of his death (2000). Many documents were produced created from the 1960s to 1990s. A proportionately smaller number of items date back to the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Mr. Stolárik has also gathered personal collections of material (correspondence, photographs, etc.) from several important figures within the Slovak-Canadian community: Andrej Kučera, Gabriel Kurdel, Juraj (George) Rondos, Peter Šuffák, Jozef Tapák, Jan Lukác, Karol Murgaš and Jozef Ferančik.

The fonds contains both administrative records from organizations in which Mr. Stolárik was involved and personal papers in multiple formats including textual records, photographs, negatives and objects.

This fonds consists of documents related to the internal politics of the Slovak World Congress (SWC), Ján Okál's involvement in its organizations and some of the SWC's publications, predominantly the Bulletin.

It contains letters, memorandums, speeches, photocopied newspaper clippings, articles, certificates, proclamations, messages, drafts of articles, agendas, flyers, programs, bibliographies, booklets, notes, telegrams, lists, declarations, meetings' minutes, statements, invitations, membership cards and forms, transcripts of Free Radio Europe's broadcasts, petitions, order forms, funeral, greeting donation, birthday, thank-you and religious cards, some with salutations, colour and black and white photographs and negatives, posters, postage stamps, a ribbon, drawings, prayers, announcements, SWC's letterhead, questionnaires, by-laws, statutes, rules and regulations, exhibits' catalogues, aerogrammes, book reviews, a bibliographic card, position papers, opening remarks, notes for addresses, poems, press releases, excerpts from books and the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation's floor plan.

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