H. Szilasi Ágota - Várkonyi Péter - Bujdosné Pap Györgyi - Császi Irén (szerk.): Agria 51. (Az egri Dobó István Vármúzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2018)
Földi Viktória: „ha Kanadát óhajtják, azt Magyarországon is el lehet érni...” Egy palóc település árucsere kapcsolata a két világháború között
SzviRCSEK Ferenc 1989 A bányászat hatása a terület gazdasági és társadalmi szerkezetére. Különös tekintettel Nógrád Megyére. In: Palócok II. Újkori történelem és népi társadalom. Heves Megyei Múzeumi Szervezet, Eger. 201-219. Tyekvicska Árpád 2005 Nógrád megye közigazgatási és területi változásai (1872-2005). (Nógrád Megyei Levéltár 47.) Salgótarján. Dobó István Vármúzeum, Bakó Adattár BA. 1153. Brüsszel 1948.07.05. BA. 307-2014. BA. 352-2014. Viktória Földi “if they want Canada, it can be achieved here in Hungary...” THE EXCHANGE OF GOODS TO AND FROM A PATÓC VILLAGE BETWEEN THE TWO WOPvLD WARS Ferenc Bakó had the opportunity to organise an exhibition of Hungarian folk art in 1978 in Canada. During the preparations for the art exhibition, the first of its kind held in North America, he devoted two months to research. His goal was to explore the ways of preserving ethnic identity. In 1988 he published a book entitled Kanadai magyarok (Hungarians in Canada), in which he summed up the findings ofhis field work, documented by photos and interview excerpts. He used a new approach to examine the economic migration from the Palóc region, focusing on the connections. This study, published for the centenary of Ferenc Bakos birth, also looks at one of the segments of the culture of Hungarian emigrants in Canada, namely the exchange of goods, using, with no claim of being exhaustive, some letters sent by family members. These surviving family documents are from the Nógrád County village of Mátraterenye (called Homokterenye at the time). Currently we have 100 letters in our collection, sent from Canada to Hungary between 1932 and 1956. They were written mostly by women, but there are a few sent by men who emigrated there. The study presents 10 letters, all of them written by women between 1932 and 1940. Their content can be examined from several aspects: social relations, issues of migration and assimilation, folk customs and the exchange of goods. From these the study focuses on the last, looking at the exchange of goods in the period under review, presented in the context of interconnections. It is highly likely that families emigrated for economic reasons, however, their living conditions and opportunities fell short of their expectations. They helped family members and relatives left behind in the old country, but they also needed economic help in their new country. This led to a unique type of barter trade between them. They explained their disappointment over the situation in the following way: ‘As for me, my advice for everyone wishing to come to Canada is that if they want Canada, it can be achieved in Hungary too, if they are careful. The Russians or the government should not be blamed for the grave situation, because they cannot provide for people when they have nothing to provide.” This was written on 30 July 1946 by Balázs Nádasdi to his sister from Glace Bay in Canada. 131
