The University Archives partnered with the MAP faculty for “Goodbye, Old Country – Count Esterhazy and Hungarian Immigration,” a show at The Corner Gallery (a new space in the Riddell Centre) and accompanying lecture in the Archives Reading Room. The project explores the enigmatic world of Count Esterhazy, an immigration agent who brought Hungarians to settle in Saskatchewan. The exhibition, curated by MFA candidate Robyn Jensen, details their early immigration history while revealing the scandals and questions about Esterhazy’s aristocratic origins.

On March 6, 2024, Jensen introduced author William Smith, who spoke to an attentive crowd at the Archives about Count Esterhazy. In 1983, Smith wrote a book called Along the Hills to the Valley, for which he enlisted the help of University of Regina History professor Martin Kovacs. Kovacs wrote and edited many books on early Hungarian settlement in the Canadian West, and the Archives holds an extensive collection of the esteemed professor’s research documents.