The CPP began officially in Canada in Toronto,
Ontario, on 5 January 1930 in the Macedonian Hall.
Croatian and Macedonian immigrants, because of the similar positions that their respective compatriots had within Yugoslavia, established good and friendly relations. Both groups oposed the regime in Yugolsavia in particular because it suppressed their civil liberties in their respective homelands. Soon after the party was founded formally in Canada, local chapters began to appear in locales with sizable numbers of Croatian immigrants.
http://www.learningmigration.com/files/research/2/From Immigrants to Ethnic.doc
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Beginnings of the
Ukrainian Settlement
in Toronto, 1903-14
In 1908 John A. Kolesnikoff, a native of Kherson, southern Ukraine, was hired by the Baptist Home Mission Board for missionary work among
Ukrainians, Poles, Russians,
Bulgarians and Macedonians. He opened three missions in Toronto-one at 426 King Street East, where he resided with his family and where the main activities took place, the second at 10 1/2 Alice Street, which was later moved to Elizabeth Street and then to York Street, and the third was opened in 1913 on Dundas Street in West Toronto. The last two were for Ukrainians, Poles and Russians and, beside the regular Bible readings, offered reading-rooms with various publications and evening courses in English and native languages.
http://www.tgmag.ca/magic/mt43.html
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The "New Immigration"
In 1890, the third and last great wave of European immigration to America began. Derisively labelled "new immigrants" to distinguish them from earlier Northern European immigrants, six million Catholics, Jews, and Orthodox Christians from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East entered the United States over the next 30 years. Most Orthodox Christians in North America are descended from one or more of these Albanian, Arab, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Cossack, Estonian, Georgian, Greek, Greek Catholic (Uniate), Gypsy,
Macedonian, Montenegrin, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, or Ukrainian
"new immigrants."
http://www.oca.org/MVorthchristiansnamerica.asp?SID=1&Chap=CH2
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A Brief History of St. Clement Church
In the early years of the 20th century,
immigrants from Macedonia and Bulgaria began coming to the United States and Canada in large numbers, looking for economic opportunity and safety from the continuing political unrest in their homeland. Most were drawn to the booming factory towns in the Midwest, and after about 1910, a large number were attracted to the Detroit area by the jobs available in the rapidly growing automobile industry.
The first immigrants to the area worshipped at Russian or Greek Orthodox churches.
In 1927, the Orthodox Mission of the Holy Synod of Bulgaria sent Protoprezviter Dr. Krustyu Tsenoff as a missionary to the growing Macedonian and
Bulgarian communities in the U.S. and Canada , to organize parishes for the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. In 192 7 , he came to the Detroit area.
The Macedonians feeling ethnically closer to the Bulgarians than to the Russians or Greeks, accepted Fr. Tsenoff as their spiritual guide and the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as their ecclesiastical authority.
Our charter members, together with Fr. Tsenoff, founded the first Detroit-based Macedonian-Bulgarian parish under the name Holy Trinity. The first services were held at St. John Episcopal Church in Downtown Detroit. Later, in 1929, the newly organized parish built its first church, on 25th Street , near Michigan Avenue . The Divine Liturgy was celebrated every Sunday and every Feast Day.
http://stclementchurch.net/SelfBasic3/About_Us/ChurchHistory.htm
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Michael "Mike" Ilitch (born 1929) began the Little Caesars Pizza empire in 1959 with one store in Garden City, Michigan. His business expanded to about 4000 stores by 1999. One of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States, Ilitch invested the fortune he made in his hometown of Detroit. He bought several major professional sports teams, including the Detroit Red Wings (professional hockey) and the Detroit Tigers (professional baseball), as well as other local enterprises in an effort to revitalize the city.
Ilitch was born on July 20, 1929, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of
Macedonian immigrants. Ilitch's father, Sotir, worked in the automobile industry as a tool-and-die maker for the Chrysler Corp. After graduation from Cooley High School, the Detroit Tigers professional baseball team offered Ilitch a $5000 bonus to sign. Ilitch requested double that amount, which the Tigers refused pay. Instead Ilitch spent four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, from 1948 until 1952, where he played baseball on base. When his tour of duty was over, Ilitch signed with the Tigers for $5000 and spent three years in the Detroit Tigers farm system, playing short-stop for the Tampa Smokers, among other teams. His family, however, did not support his career choice. According to Michael Oneal of
Business Week, "Sotir Ilitch thought baseball was a
bum sport."
poveke za/mike-ilitch
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In 1900, the city's population had grown to 3,122 people. By the middle of the first decade of the 20th century, about ten years after Granite City was founded, the stamping works covered 1.25 million square feet on 75 acres of land and employed 4,000 persons.
With its hundreds of jobs for skilled and unskilled laborers, the city became a magnet for immigrants. The first wave of immigration came to work at the NESCO plant and steel mills, and largely consisted of Welsh and English immigrants. Many Polish families migrated from St. Louis around 1900, followed by Slovaks, Greeks, Croations and Serbs who largely worked at the Commonwealth and American steel foundries. Later waves of immigration included
Macedonians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Russians, Lithuanians. Finally, Mexicans arrived during World War I to take the place of conscripted laborers
http://www.eco-absence.org/gc/tour.htm.
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As more immigrants arrived, new Polish neighborhoods were formed in Lawrenceville and the Strip District in close proximity to new industry at that time. The Poles from this area traveled across the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh's North Side and worshipped at St. Wenceslaus Church (Bohemian - 1870). In 1860, the city's population was 50,000.
NationalityNumberPercentNationalityNumberPercent
American5,79939.45Kreiner (Slovanian)6.04
Armenian15.10Lithuanian2381.52
Macedonian4.03
Bulgarian67.46
Croatian (Horvat)2992.04
Greek2671.82Spanish48.33
Nationality Report, Homestead Steel Works, Howard Axle Works, Carrie Furnaces, October 8, 1919
http://www.polishroots.com/history/pittsburgh_poles.htm
