Creating Kashubia : history, memory, and identity in Canada's first Polish community /

"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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blank, Joshua C., 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. 38.
Temas:
Kashubes > Ontario > Renfrew (County) > History.
Polish Canadians > Ontario > Renfrew (County) > History.
Canadiens d'origine polonaise > Ontario > Renfrew (Comté) > Histoire.
Kachoubes > Ontario > Renfrew (Comté) > Histoire.
Kachoubes > Identité ethnique > Ontario > Renfrew (Comté)
HISTORY > Canada > Post-Confederation (1867- )
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Kashubes.
Renfrew (Ont.) > Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
Ontario > Renfrew (County)
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I Revisiting Historical Memory. 1 The Production of Knowledge and Canada's First Polish Community
  • Poverty, Piety, and Political Persecution
  • Migration Memories
  • Intending Settlers: T.P. French and His Guidebook
  • Poor Land and Victorian Science.
  • Part II Cultural Redefinition. The Origins and Development of the Kashubian Label
  • Legacies of Promotion: Cultural Redefinition and the Wilno Heritage Society
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Emigrants from Prussian-Occupied Poland Who Settled on the Opeongo and Surrounding Townships.

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