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Polish Canadians
Polish Canadians
Polish Canadian
History
The earliest Polish immigrants to Canada were members of the Watt and De Meuron military regiments from Saxony and Switzerland sent overseas to help the British Army in North America. Several were émigrés from Poland who took part in the November Uprising of 1830 and the 1863 insurrection against the Russian occupation of their own homeland.[2] The first Polish immigrant on record, Dominik Barcz, is known to have come to Canada in 1752. He was a fur merchant from Gdańsk who settled in Montreal. He was followed in 1757 by Charles Blaskowicz, who worked as deputy surveyor-general of lands. In 1776 arrived army surgeon, August Franz Globensky. His grandson, Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky was elected to the House of Commons in Ottawa in 1875.
Wayne Gretzky • Peter Gzowski Aleksandra Wozniak • Geddy Lee
Total population 984,565 [1]
3.15% of the Canadian Population
Regions with significant populations Ontario, Western Canada, Atlantic Canada, Quebec Languages English, Polish, French Religion Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish Related ethnic groups Polonia, Western Slavs
Sir Casimir S. Gzowski from Historic Sites of Ontario.
Polish Canadians are Canadians of Polish ancestry. According to the 2001 census by Statistics Canada, 984,585 Canadians claim full or partial Polish ancestry. [1]
Canada provinces 1867-1870.
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In 1841, Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski arrived in Canada from the partitioned Poland via U.S.A. and for 50 years worked in engineering, military and community sectors in Toronto and Southern Ontario, for which he was knighted by Queen Victoria. Charles Horecki immigrated in 1872. He was an engineer with the cross-Canada railway construction from Edmonton to the Pacific Ocean through the Peace River Valley. Today, a mountain and a body of water in British Columbia are named after him.
Polish Canadians
Largest Polish Canadian communities
• Alberta • Calgary, Alberta • Edmonton, Alberta • British Columbia • Surrey, British Columbia • Vancouver, British Columbia • Victoria, British Columbia • Manitoba • Winnipeg, Manitoba • Nova Scotia • Dartmouth, Nova Scotia • Halifax, Nova Scotia • Ontario • London, Ontario • Mississauga, Ontario • Ottawa, Ontario • Toronto, Ontario • Roncesvalles • Wilno, Ontario • Quebec • Montreal, Quebec • Quebec City, Quebec
Group-settlers
The first significant group of Polish group-settlers were Kashubians from Northern Poland, who were escaping Prussian oppression resulting from the occupation. They arrived in Renfrew County of Ontario in 1858, where they founded the settlements of Wilno, Barry’s Bay, and Round Lake. By 1890 there were about 270 Kashubian families working in the Madawaska Valley of Renfrew County, mostly in the lumber industry of the Ottawa Valley. The consecutive waves of Polish immigrants in periods from 1890-1914, 1920-1939, and 1941 to this day, settled across Canada from Cape Breton to Vancouver, and made numerous and significant contributions to the agricultural, manufacturing, engineering, teaching, publishing, religious, mining, cultural, professional, sports, military, research, business, governmental and political life in Canada.
Religious services, first Churches
The first Polish Catholic priest visited Polish immigrants in 1862 in Kitchener. The first church serving Polish immigrants was built in 1875 in Wilno, Ontario. In Winnipeg, the Holy Ghost Church was built in 1899. The first Polish-Canadian Roman Catholic bishop is Reverend Mathew Ustrzycki, consecrated in June 1985, auxiliary bishop of the Hamilton Diocese. There are Polish-Canadian priests in many congregations and orders, such as the Franciscans, Jesuits, Redemptorists, Saletinians, Resurrectionists, Oblates, Michaelites, and the Society of Christ. In addition, 80 priests are serving in 120 parishes.
Polish Canadian recipients of the Order of Canada Polish Canadian Queen’s Counsels and lawyers appointed as judges Notable Polish Canadians
Science and Engineering
• Dr. Tadeusz Blachut of Ottawa, member of the National Research Council, a photogram metric expert • Zbigniew Krupski, the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Bell Telephone company of Canada • Adam Skorek, professor and Fellow of the "Engineering Institute of Canada". http://www.eic-ici.ca/ english/tour/fellows.html. • J. Norton-Spychalski, a co-founder of the Computing Devices of Canada in 1949
The Victoria Cross
Polish-Canadians have been recognized by awards and appointments by the Queen, and the Canadian governments, universities and various organizations. Notably: Andrew Mynarski, pilot-gunner from Winnipeg, awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for extreme valor in World War II
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• Witold Rybczynski - architect, professor and writer • P. Wyszkowski, Chief Structural Engineer of Toronto’s Bloor Street subway • Jan Żurakowski of the Avro Aircraft Company in Malton, awarded Canada’s top Aviation Award, the McKee Trophy in 1959 • • • • •
Polish Canadians
Karolina Ingleton - singer-songwriter Marek Jablonski - pianist-virtuoso, born in Cracow[4] Steve Jocz - drummer for Sum 41 Ben Kowalewicz - lead singer for Billy Talent Geddy Lee - bassist, keyboardist and lead vocalist for Rush • Margaret Maye - singer and actress • Daniel Wnukowski - pianist
Education
• Izaak Helmuth, from Warsaw, via England, one of the founders of the University of Western Ontario.
Culture and Media
• • • • • • • • • • • Andrzej Busza - poet, Bogdan Czaykowski - poet, translator, essayist Peter Gzowski - broadcaster, writer and reporter Rafal Heydel-Mankoo - historian and royal commentator for CTV Wacław Iwaniuk - poet in Polish, literary critic and essayist [3] Anne Mroczkowski - journalist, news anchor Bogumil Pacak-Gamalski - poet, essayist, editor-inchief of annual ’Strumien’ [5] George Radwanski - Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto Star Chava Rosenfarb - novelist, poet in Yiddish, wife of Henry Morgentaler Adam Smoluk - director, screenwriter and actor Mark Starowicz - head of CBC Television Documentary Programming unit, journalist and TV producer Richard Tylman - poet in English and Polish, essayist, translator, and painter
Politics
• • • • • • • Leon David Crestohl - Liberal MP Cartier 1950-1963 Jan Dukszta - former Ontario NDP MPP Gary Filmon - former Premier of Manitoba Jesse Flis - Liberal MP Parkdale—High Park 1979-1984; 1988-1997 Casimir Gzowski - Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Stanley Haidasz - Liberal MP Trinity 1957-1958, Minister of State, Senator Stan Kazmierczak Keyes - former national chair of Liberal Party of Canada; Liberal MP Hamilton West 1988-2004 Alexandre Edouard Kierzkowski - Liberal MP St. Hyacinthe 1867-1970, First MP of Polish Decent Ken Kowalski, former Deputy Premier of Alberta, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Don Mazankowski - Deputy Prime Minister for Brian Mulroney, Progressive Conservative MP Vegreville 1968-1993 Gary Malkowski - former Ontario NDP MPP, Canada’s first deaf parliamentarian Fred Rose - Labour Progressive (Communist) MP Cartier 1943-1947; his capture as a Soviet spy helped to start the Cold War Paul Yakabuski - former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Edward Ziemba - former Ontario NDP MPP Elaine Ziemba - former Ontario NDP MPP
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Actors
• Magda Apanowicz - actress
Military
• Andrew Charles Mynarski - VC, Second World War airman • Stefan Sznuk - Major General.
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Public Service
• Frank Glogowski - Vice-Chairman of the Immigration Appeal Board • Peter Taraska of Winnipeg - Citizenship Court Judge • Irene Ungar of Toronto - Citizenship Court Judge • Stan Zybala - a Deputy-Director of the Multicultural Directorate
Sports
• Turk Broda - ice hockey goalie • Wayne Gretzky - former hockey star and currently coach of the Phoenix Coyotes. His father is of ethnic Polish heritage. • Rafael Kalamat - golf professional • Michael Klukowski - soccer player for Club Brugge • Tomasz Kucharzewski - martial artist • Jim Peplinski - Calgary Flames NHL • Chris Pozniak - soccer player who currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes. • Tomasz Radzinski - soccer player • Larry J. Trader - played for Detroit, St. Louis, Montreal, 1982-1988 • Wojtek Wolski - Colorado Avalanche Player NHL
Music
• • • • Tadeusz Biernacki - conductor, pianist, arranger Dan Bryk - singer-songwriter Basia Bulat - singer-songwriter Janina Fialkowska - renown pianist, born in Montreal[3]
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• Aleksandra Wozniak - professional tennis Player
Polish Canadians
• Polish Americans • Polish Cathedral style of North American church architecture
Other Polish Canadians
• Mary (Fock) Moberly, mother of Walter Moberly (engineer) • Janusz Żurakowski, Battle of Britain fighter pilot, Test pilot of the Avro Arrow
References
[1] [2] ^ Statistics Canada, [1], 2001 Census, last modified: 2005-01-25. Accessed 2008-01-03. Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2002, Archival Sources for the Study of Polish Canadians. Accessed 2008-01-03 Archival Sources for the Study of Polish Canadians
Fictional Characters
• Sasquatch (comics), a Marvel superhero
See also
• Great Emigration • Canadian-Polish Congress
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External links
• Canadian Polish Congress
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