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Saskatchewanian Hungarians are Hungarian Canadians living in Saskatchewan. After the Canada 2006 Census there lives 27,395 people in Saskatchewan, who have Hungarian roots or were born in Hungary. In the local oral Hungarian usage the name of the province was Saskanada.

By 1921 the Hungarian population grew up to 8.946, in 1931 to 13,363, in 1941 to 14,576. Because of the movings to Ontario and to East, the populations declined to 12,470 by 1951. In 2001 there lived 24,340 Hungarian in Saskatchewan. 24 % of them (5,875 people) claimed to born in Hungary.

History
In 1885 the Hungarian immigrants established ten settlements in the eastern region of Saskatchewan. One of them was Esterhaz colony, which is still existing. In 1888 a new settlement was founded near Esterhazy, which was named Kaposvár (named after Kaposvár, now part of Esterhazy). By 1902 these two settlements had over 900 people. The near-located Sockholm also became Hungarian settlement (in Hungarian Sokhalom). In 1894 a Hungarian settlement was established Rev. Janos (John) Kovacs in Otthon (which means 'Home'). After 1902 somewhere the nowadays existing Kipling there was a settlement called Békevár ('Peaceburgh'). Later Hungarians settled down also in the northern part of Saskatchewan, close to Wakaw, there was the Buda School District. West of Wakaw was the Dunafoldvar district (named after Dunaföldvár), south of Wakaw was Matyasfold (Mátyásföld - 'Land of Matthew').

Notable Hungarians in Saskatchewan

 * Tibor Feheregyhazi - actor, director
 * Miklos Kanitz - Holocaust-survivor