PART OF THE BOOK “SELECTED PAPERS FOR MACEDONIA” BY SLAVÉ KATIN The earliest organized charitable fraternities in Canada were fraternities of the following villages: Oshchima, Banitsa, Smrdesh, D’mbeni, Buff, and Trsje. These fraternities were established during the period 1905-1907. After 1910 there was massive organization of Macedonian village charitable societies. Till the Second World War these Macedonian village societies were basically ...

PART OF THE BOOK “SELECTED PAPERS FOR MACEDONIA” BY SLAVÉ KATIN THE “D’MBENI” CHARITABLE SOCIETY The original “D’mbeni” society from the village of D’mbeni, near Castoria, was founded in the city of Gary, Indiana, USA. It brought together D’mbeni village residents living in USA and Canada. The society was then named after Lazar Pop Trajkov, the famous fighter against Turkish slavery who came from this village. In 1940 members of the society ...