{"id":15012,"date":"2016-06-14T18:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T22:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15012"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:33:13","slug":"history-department-alumnus-joshua-c-blank-launches-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/history-department-alumnus-joshua-c-blank-launches-book\/","title":{"rendered":"History Department Alumnus Joshua C. Blank Launches Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n History Department Alumnus Joshua C. Blank Launches Book\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

On Saturday May 7, 2016 during the annual Kashub Day festival in Wilno, Ontario Joshua C. Blank (MA, 2010) officially launched his book, Creating Kashubia: History, Memory and Identity in Canada\u2019s First Polish Community<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kim Van Herk and Josh Blank staying dry under the tent at the book launch. Photo credits: Bruce S. Elliott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Several hundred descendants and residents – some who travelled from as far away as Northern Poland \u2013 unveiled family stones, listened to traditional music, heard a short lecture from Blank, and enjoyed other festivities in and around the Polish-Kashub Museum. Quite quickly, all of the copies of the book that the Wilno Heritage Society had in their store were sold and many were autographed. Many stopped by Blank\u2019s table to discuss his book and his findings.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe book covers around 500 years of history and the complete sequence of migration,\u201d says Blank. \u201cIt looks into the pre-existing conditions in Prussian and Austrian-occupied Poland, delves into the world of immigrant recruitment and analyzes the transatlantic voyage. But it doesn\u2019t stop there. It analyzes the socializing influences in Canada and the re-ethnicization of the settlers from Polish to Kashubian in the 1980s and 1990s. It also looks at the creation of the Wilno Heritage Society, the promotion of ethnic events and offers alternative views to those who think that the ethnic group is losing its heritage.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blank\u2019s research started at 杏吧原创 and then, with encouragement from Drs. Bruce S. Elliott, John C. Walsh and Jan K. Fedorowicz, he continued to expand the manuscript after graduating. Creating Kashubia<\/i> was accepted and published by McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press and is a part of the Studies in Ethnic History Series. \u201cThe subvention from the 杏吧原创 Centre for the History of Migration and the Shannon Fund were crucial in the development of the book,\u201d remarks Blank. \u201cAdditionally, I would not have been able to conduct research in Poland had I not received generous grants from 杏吧原创 University and the Estate of Frank Underhill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Creating Kashubia was being sold out of an old wheelbarrow. Photo credits: Bruce S. Elliott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Elliott and Marilyn Barber made the trek to Wilno for the festivities and were impressed by the events and development of the museum and park. Dr. Elliott, who runs a fourth year seminar on gravestones and cemeteries, was particularly interested in several old wooden grave markers and crosses from the old Polish cemetery.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Blank teaches at St. Francis Xavier HS in Ottawa. Creating Kashubia<\/i> can be ordered online through MQUP (http:\/\/www.mqup.ca\/<\/span><\/a>) or can be purchased through the WHS (www.wilno.org\/articles\/books.html<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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