Joined the Polish army in 1920 at the age of 16, to help fight off the Russian Bolsheviks that Poland was fighting with, trying to get back their original boundary with Russia. The war ended in 1921 with the signing of the treaty of Riga, which compromised with a border matching the pre-Great War one.

Also joined the cloth factory, training to be a loom master.

Came to Canada in 1927 aboard the SS Lithuania, along with his wife and child, arriving in Halifax April 23, 1927. His first name is spelled Wiktor on the immigration record.

In Canada, went to work on a farm (With his wife and son) near Paswegin, SK (west of Wadena, and essentially a ghost town now) for a family named Webster. They were treated very well, in spite of the Fulek’s only speaking Polish, and the Webster’s only speaking English.

A humerous anecdote from this this time period is when Viktor was one time paid his wages (after he had learned some english); Webster gave him the money, and said that “they were all square”. He then told Viktor that “he hoped to see him around”. To quote his son Ludwig’s account of the story from the Lintlaw history book, “Viktor never could understand why he first was a square and later round. Anyway, he shrugged it off, who could understand Englishmen anyway. He got paid and that was all that mattered, square or round.”

His name on his tombstone is spelt the German way - Wiktor. It was pronounced Victor.