Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 10. (1980)
II. Istorie
7 INCEPUTURILE EMIGRAJIEI ÍN S.U.A. $1 CANADA 315 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ROMANIAN IMIGRATTON TO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CANADA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX-TH CENTURY (Summary) Among the others Europeen peoples, which immigrated during the XIX-th Century to United States of America and Canada, there were also the Romanians from Transilvania, occupied by Austro-Hungarian authority. Leaving for America, to look for better conditions of life and to earn their families’ living they are pointing out in New York Harbor in 1840. Nevertheless, their number was very small, comparatively with the other peoples or nations from Austro-Hungarian Empire, because Romanians were deeply in love with their country and because the pro-immigrant propaganda in Transilvania was at its beginnings.
