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A number of distinguished guests and many descendants of Canada's Kashubian pioneers who now live in the Ottawa area attended a special 150th Anniversary lecture by Shirley Mask Connolly, curator of the Polish Kashub Heritage Museum in Wilno, and researcher and author. Shown with Shirley, from the left, Mr. Alexander Jablonski, President of the Ottawa Branch of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada; Mr. Rick Norlock, MP Northumberland-Quinte and descendant of Kashubian immigrant Jacob Norlock/Narloch of Wilno; Mr. Piotr Ogrodzinski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland; and Mr. David Shulist, President of the Wilno Heritage Society.
Lecture presented by
the Ottawa Chapter of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences
in Canada
& the Wilno Heritage Society
in collaboration with the Polish-Canadian Congress - Ottawa Region and the Polish Heritage Institute Kaszuby
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada is a Canadian, federally incorporated, non-profit organization. The Institute was founded in
1943 and its most recent by-laws are from 1984. The Institute organizes meetings, public lectures, concerts, video and film presentations, and poetry readings etc. on Polish-Canadian and European
heritage and history, and also arts and sciences in three languages: English, French and Polish. It maintains the Polish Library at McGill University in Montreal. The Institute is supported by the
general public through donations and also by limited government grants (at the provincial and federal level)
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada
Ottawa Branch
P. O. Box 8711, Station T
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1G 3J1
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