From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Bulgarians/Mariela Dakova
A good work on Bulgarian history is Bojidar Dimitrov,Bulgaria, Illustrated History (Sofia, Bulgaria, 1994), while Steven Runciman’s The History of the First Bulgarian Empire (London, 1930) focuses on the history of the older Bulgarian state. An excellent source on the Balkan Wars, and also on cultural life just prior to World War I, is Will Monroe’s Bulgaria and Her People (1914; repr. Sofia, 1997). A solid general survey with much information on Bulgaria is Barbara Jelavich, A History of the Balkans, 2 vols. (Cambridge, U.K., 1983).
The only general study of Bulgarian emigration to North America has been written in Bulgarian by V. Trajkov, A History of the Bulgarian Immigration in North America (Sofia, 1991), and one may also consult Nikolay G. Altankov, The Bulgarian-Americans (Palo Alto, Calif., 1979). K. Gardev, The Macedonian Patriotic Organizations in Canada (Sofia, 1991), is useful for more detailed information about the political and cultural life of Bulgarian immigrants in Canada. In commemoration of Canada’s centennial the Bulgarian-Canadian Centennial Committee prepared a brochure, The Bulgarian Ethnic Group in Canada (1967), which includes a brief account of Bulgarian history, geography, and contributions to world culture. John Norris, Strangers Entertained: A History of the Ethnic Groups of British Columbia (Vancouver, 1976), makes a short reference to Bulgarians in British Columbia.
There are a number of studies dealing with different aspects of Bulgarian-Canadian culture including two by Irene Markoff, Persistence of Old World Cultural Expressions in the Traditional Music of Bulgarian Canadians (Pittsburgh, Penn., 1982, 219–20) and Folk Music Traditions of Bulgarian-Canadians Resident in Southern Ontario: A Dying or Transitional Stage?, a report of the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies (Ottawa, 1974).
Valuable information can be found in two church almanacs: 50th Anniversary Sts. Cyril and Methody Mecedono-Bulgarian Orthodox Cathedral, 1916–60 (Toronto, 1960) and The Macedono-Bulgarian Orthodox Cathedral “Sts Cyril and Methody” from 1961 to 1985 (Toronto, 1990).
Finally, Marianne Raduloff’s article “Bulgarian-Ca-nadian Periodical Publications: A Preliminary Check List,” Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada, vol.2 no.1 (1979), 1–3, can serve as an introduction to Bulgarian-Canadian periodicals such as Macedonia Tribune, Svoboda, Readers Forum, and Horizons.
