Carpatho-rusyns

The Carpatho-Rusyns are a people from east-central Europe who began to immigrate to Canada in the early years of the twentieth century. They have never been large in number, and it was only in the 1940s and 1950s that they functioned successfully as an organized community. Since that time, they have assimilated with neighbouring peoples or with Canadian society as a whole, so that today one speaks primarily of individual Canadians of Carpatho-Rusyn background, and organized Carpatho-Rusyn community life is limited.