U radu se na osnovi iseljeničkoga tiska Hrvatske seljačke stranke i relevantne literature analiziraju društvena okupljanja iseljenika od 1945. do 1990. u organizaciji iseljeničke Hrvatske seljačke stranke koja su se održavala pod nazivom Hrvatski narodni dan. Prikazana je i sistematizirana kronologija održavanja Hrvatskoga narodnog dana od 1945. do 1990., značenje i svrha održavanja manifestacije iz perspektive promidžbe Hrvatske seljačke stranke te struktura i tijek manifestacije na sam dan održavanja. Cilj rada jest doprinijeti istraživanju povijesti društvenoga života hrvatskoga iseljeništva i političke emigracije. ; The Croatian National Day was a manifestation organised by the emigrant Croatian Peasant Party, which began to be held in 1946 in the southern part of the Canadian province of Ontario, where it also represented the largest concentration of Croatian emigrants in Canada. The manifestation was launched so that Croatian emigrants could socialise and entertain each other, but also took on a political character, gathering funds for ‘Dr Vladko Maček’s Fund for the Freedom of Croatia’, which was headed by the Main Committee of the Canadian Croatian Peasant Party and at the disposal of the party’s president, Vladko Maček. Starting in 1950, manifestations also began to be held in northern Ontario and Belgium. The organisation of manifestations soon spread to the Pacific coast of North America, so that Croatian National Days were held in Portland from 1953 to 1964 and in Vancouver from 1958 to the end of the studied period. Significant Croatian National Day events were also held in Cleveland from 1962 to the mid-1980s. Croatian national consciousness was expressed at the manifestations, which was highlighted in the Peasant Party’s promotional activities before the manifestations, but also at the manifestations themselves, when holy masses were served for the June victims, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, and the Bleiburg victims. National consciousness was promoted by displaying flags with Croatian national ...