Universities
in Hungary suffered great intellectual loss following the Hungarian Revolution
of 1956. Many professors who fled their homeland came directly to Canada.
The Forestry Faculty, University of Sopron, immigrated en masse to Canada.
This view depicts Dean Dr. Kalman Roller, centre, and other refugee colleagues
from Hungary, visiting the University of New Brunswick campus in January
1957, en route to Powell River, British Columbia, where a transitional
school affiliated with the University of British Columbia had been established,
enabling students and professors, alike, to learn English so that they
could start life anew at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver
the following September. Professor Kalman Roller received from the University
of British Columbia an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree in June 1999.
[Photo, courtesy Metro Toronto Reference Library]