Canada, emigration

Canada in 1889. The circumstances of Bronfman s emigration are noteworthy. His passage was paid by the de Hirsch family fund for settlements in Canada — which conferred benefits with... 

The Bronfmans have always been beholden to the Hofjuden elite. The first member of the family to come to North America was Yechiel Bronfman, a grist mill owner from Bessarabia, Romania, who later anglicized his name to Ekiel. Yechiel emigrated to Canada in 1889 under the sponsorship of the Moses Montefiore Jewish Colonialization Committee. (1)... 

Moseley had just been born when another lad six years old was growing up in Brooklyn, New York. Unlike the English boy, he could pride himself on no scientific forbears. His grandfather was a minister who had emigrated from Scotland to Canada and then brought his family to Connecticut. On his mother s side, too, there seems to have been no hereditary promise of the scientific wizardry which was to develop in this boy. 

My father died when I was not quite four years old. He had been a successful lawyer in Canada, who emigrated with his family of my mother and three girls to the U.S. to manage a citrus venture he and friends had invested in, in Florida. The venture failed and the family moved to Vermont, where... 

Sunflower crops cultivated in North America are derived from seeds introduced by eastern European immigrants toward the end of the nineteenth century hence, the name Russian Peanuts. Russian emigrants in the United States and Canada grew strains such as Giant or Mammoth Russian in gardens for the production of edible seeds. These served as a base for the development of improved cultivars for commercial production. The cultivated area in the United States reached 200,000 acres in 1968 most of which was destined to the production of seed for manufacture of food for human consumption, and to the bird meal market (4). 

George Andrew Olah (1927- ) was born in Budapest, Hungary, and received a doctorate in 1949 at the Technical University of Budapest. During the Hungarian revolution in 1956, he emigrated to Canada and joined the Dow Chemical Company. After moving to the United States, he was professor of chemistry at Case-Western Reserve University (1965-1977) and then at the University of Southern California (1977- ). He received the 1994 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on carbocations. 

Louise emigrated / immigrated to Canada when she was seven. 

Josef (Joe) Paldus defended his M.Sc. Thesis in 1958 at the Charles University in Prague, supervised by V. Hanus and J. Koutecky, and the latter also supervised his Ph.D. Thesis, defended in 1961 at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He did his postdoctoral studies with D.A. Ramsay at the National Research Council in Ottawa. After emigrating to Canada in 1968 he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Waterloo and later also its Chemistry Department and Guelph-Waterloo Center for Graduate Work in Chemistry. Since his obligatory retirement in 2001 he continues his research as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983, a Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences a year later and, most recently, a Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. 

George Olah was born in Hungary in 1927 and received a doctorate from the Technical University of Budapest in 1949. The Hungarian revolution caused him to emigrate to Canada in 1956, where he worked as a scientist at the Dow Chemical Company until he joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve University in 1965. In 1977, he became a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California. In 1994, he received the Nobel Prize for his work on carbocations. 

In 1936, Mr. Fred Salvoniuk, a farmer at Shellbrook Saskatchewan, obtained seed from a friend or relative in Poland from which country he had emigrated in 1927. Mr. Salvoniuk planted this seed in his garden and found it adapted well. He continued growing a small plot for a few years. Later it was established that the rapeseed he grew was the Brassica campestris species known as turnip rape in Europe. However, because of its origin it became known as Polish rapeseed. Because there were no established markets for rapeseed in Canada at that time, field scale production did not occur. 

It has been said that America is a melting pot for immigrants from all other countries of the world. While it is true that millions of foreigners have emigrated to the US, in many instances the process has been one of catalytic fractionation, rather than one of melting. Hitler was tim catalyst which caused the Mark family and a Jewish niece to migrate to the US via Canada and as a result of this fractionation process, the new science of polymers developed in the United States under the guidance of a former professor from the University of Vienna. 

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