Poles

POLES began coming to BC in the 1890s with the arrival in VANCOUVER of the first known immigrants, the brothers Swiecicki—Adam, Anthony, Joseph and Paul. The Swiecickis and most other Polish immigrants at the time migrated to the West Coast from eastern Canada. The Polish population grew slowly until by the 1920s there were more than 1,000. Most of them lived in the Vancouver area, where they formed the Polish Friendship Society in 1926. Immigration rates remained modest until the end of...

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