Meet The Author / Book Reading of Creating Kashubia

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
7pm

Opeongo Seniors Centre, 19 Stafford St., Barry's Bay, Ontario K0J 1B0
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Please join author Joshua C. Blank as he shares his research and insight on the subject of Polish/Kashub identity, past and present. Joshua will also be reading from his new book Creating Kashubia: History, Memory, and Identity in Canada's First Polish Community.

The event will take place at the Opeongo Seniors Centre, 7pm on August 23rd. Doors will open at 6:30pm and admission is FREE.

Copies of Creating Kashubia will be available for purchase through the Wilno Heritage Society ($30). The event will be hosted by the Madawaska Valley Public Library, Sean Conway and the Wilno Heritage Society.

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Creating Kashubia

History, Memory, and Identity in Canada's First Polish Community

A groundbreaking work that looks at the changing ways in which Canada’s first Polish community views itself.

 In recent years, over one million Canadians have claimed Polish heritage - a significant population increase since the first group of Poles came from Prussian-occupied Poland and settled in Wilno, Ontario, west of Ottawa in 1858. For over a century, descendants from this community thought of themselves as Polish, but this began to change in the 1980s due to the work of a descendant priest who emphasized the community’s origins in Poland’s Kashubia region. What resulted was the reinvention of ethnicity concurrent with a similar movement in northern Poland. Read more>