Polish Immigration Into Canada
By:Diya
Polish Immigration
Polish settlement into Canada
Polish impacts on Canadian culture
The Polish came to Canada but with a lot of culture and now history, that they brought to Canada. Polish groups are called Kashub, it had its own language, music, dance, food, and unique churches. They had two languages the first one was called the Kashub language the second language is called the Polish language. The Polish use Kashub to communicate with their family members or at work. Kashub was not a real classified language until, on January 6 2005, Kashub became real classified language and was spoke in the 4th,5th, and even 6th generation of poles.The Polish used Polish to communicate in their churches. The Kashubian music came to Canada in the year 1858, the fiddle is one of the instruments that they play at a Polish wedding with the guitar. Polish dancing was brought to Canada in the year 2008, when it was the 150th year anniversary celebration in August.
The Polish had multiple dishes to serve and bring to Canada, most of them had pork and chicken include in the food.Such as hog jowls, blood sausages-bi-product of pork, salty pork and pork hocks. They also ate cabbage rolls, perogies, polish sausage, boiled chicken potatoes, chicken soup with potatoes, chicken rice soup, sour cabbage or sauerkraut, and salty herring. The polish used to live near the Baltic Sea so they depended on sea food, they got the same taste of seafood from Newfoundland except they added dill pickle, potato pancakes and dried apples.The Etmanskies, Vaskolskies, Chapeskies and the Olsheskie had no cabbage rolls and perogies in their diet.In Warsaw, in South and Centeral Poland the polish culture was very strong and rich.
Polish contributions to Canada
The Polish have now become apart of the Canadian society, and have made Canada a more diverse and welcoming country for many different people to come and look for opportunities. The Polish have influenced many cultural people to live here as well as more new immigrants. The Polish have contributed towards developing Canadian mining, forestry and farming industries. The Polish have created Canada a more sightseeing country because of all the Polish churches in Canada.
Fun Facts
Polish lived near the Baltic Sea.Marta is one of the dance directors of the Ottawa Based Polish dance group, called the Polanie. Some.Some Polish children took jobs outside the home to bring extra income for their family.Both girls and boys helped clear land and cared for crops and livestock
grandmothers, mothers, daughters looked after household tasks such as sewing, cleaning and cooking.
Men were seen as the head of households in these families.Children lived with their parents and grandparents in one home. Polish families felt isolated, especially in winter because other families in the prairies were far away from one another.One of the polish immigrants were Karol Blaskowitz, a captain-cartographer of the British Army, that arrived in the year 1802 in Canada.