The enduring co-operation between Poland, Canada

In 1917, at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., Canadian authorities established a military facility called Camp Kosciuszko, designed to train a Polish army in exile consisting of volunteers keen to fight for a free Poland during the First World War.

A veteran leaves a poppy behind on the National War Memorial during a Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on Nov. 11. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Andrzej Kurnicki

November 11, 2019

On Nov. 11, our Canadian friends honour their wartime compatriots who served and paid the ultimate price for freedom in the world. For Poles, this date has significance as well. More than commemorating Armistice Day and the end of the First World War, it also marks th...

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