Czech Canadians
First Czech Canadian MP: Otto Jelinek PC MP 1972–1979 High Park-Humber Valley, 1979–1993 Halton
First Czech Canadian cabinet minister: Otto Jelinek, 1984–1993
Read more about this topic: Electoral Firsts In Canada
Famous quotes containing the words czech and/or canadians:
“I’m neither Czech nor Slovak ... I’m still trying to figure out who I am. I think I’m Jewish. But first I want to be human.”
—Natasha Dudinska (b. c. 1967)
“The impression made on me was that the French Canadians were even sharing the fate of the Indians, or at least gradually disappearing in what is called the Saxon current.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)