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In the News (Tue 8 Dec 09)

  
  Kashubian
The main occupation of the Kashub was fishing in the past and now is mainly tourism.
The dialects spoken by other ethnic groups are between Kashub language and Polish dialects of Great Poland and Mazovia.
The first activist of the Kashub movement was Florian Ceynowa after 1846.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/ka/kashubian.html   (441 words)

  
 KORMAN :: Hotel :: bicycle tour :: accommodation :: bed and breakfast :: by the sea :: cheap room's
On that occasion the Kashubs showed that their proverbial obstinacy in holding on to their rights and habits is not dead.
Kashub religiousness has its material expression: countless roadside chapels, churches, including a real architectural jewel, the Cistercian church in the Kartuzy hills whit its famous coffin roof or the historical Wejherowo Calvary representation frequently visited by pilgrims from all parts of Kashubia.
The Kashubs also had a hard time during the communist period, but again they succeeded in defending their identity, in contrast to the Mazurians or the Slowinces from the nerby Pobrzeże.
www.korman.pcbird.pl /kashubia.html   (1365 words)

  
 PGSA - Kashubian Surnames (A-K)
The curator of the Kashub Museum in Kartuzy was Franek Brzezinski.
Kashub name appears in the Renfrew region of Ontario where it is anglicized to "Freemark".
Kashub name known in early days in Renfrew, Ontario but because of the difficulty of pronunciation, the name was changed quite early to "Green".
www.pgsa.org /Kashub/kashname.htm   (3728 words)

  
 KANA - Kashubian Association of North America
What percentage of their inhabitants would be of Kashub parentage is hard to say, perhaps as low as ten percent.
Today in that wedge there may still dwell upwards of two hundred thousand Kashubs who still preserve some of the old traditions and who may still understand or speak the dialect, though for the most of them classical Polish is today the everyday language, at least outside their own homes.
The heart of Kaszuby would be around the cities (10 - 15 thousand) of Kartuzy and Koscierzyna for the central and southern Kashubs and around the larger city of Wejherowo in the region adjacent to the peninsula of Hel for the northern Kashubs.
www.ka-na.org /rekowski.html   (618 words)

  
 PGSA - Kashub Surnames
This symbol was viewed as a guarantee that the Slavic character of the city and region would be protected against the Germanic aggression of the Teutonic Knights, and later, the increasing power of the State of Brandenburg-Prussia.
The griffin was unable to stay the subsequent rising tide of Germanization in the region which spelled doom for the Kashubs and their dreams of a nation-state.
Stevens Point region seemed to be the largest Kashub settlement in the U.S.A. The Barry's Bay area has 3 Kashub Polish parishes; the Stevens Point area must have 10 or 12 quite large parishes, e.g.: Stevens Point, Polonia, Rosholt, Bevent, Torun, Fancher, Guster, Hatley, Galloway, St. Casimir's, Hull, Heffron.
www.pgsa.org /kashub.htm   (1226 words)

  
 The Kashub Language in Canada
The Kashub culture has been fighting for centuries to lay claim that their language has a name and it is not a dialect of another language but a language that stands on its own, having 76 different dialects itself.
This language is spoken by fourth, fifth and even a few sixth generation Canadian Kashubs, but it is a language that is on the verge of being lost forever.
The Pope also addressed the Kashub people and said that they should hold onto their Kashubian language and their unique Kashub Culture.
www.wilno.org /culture/language.html   (533 words)

  
   ::     OMNITV.ca   >   OMNI Television Signature Series     ::  
Only recently they were to re-discover their real identity as the Kashubs, an ethnically distinct culture with its own unique dialect.
Thrown in the middle of the Canadian wilderness with little or no means of support they had to overcome hardships of winter, famine, disease and lack of basic education which resulted in second-generation illiteracy among the population.
Today's Kashub farmers of the Madawaska Valley still carry on the old country's traditions but their relationship with the land and the forests, which they once cut clear and then nursed back to life, is more as guardians of the land, rather than owners of a commodity.
www.omnitv.ca /tv/signatureseries/episodes/kaszebe   (257 words)

  
 voluntaryXchange: A Little Wend Trivia
More broadly the Kashubs are part of a Slavic group that lives further west than the Poles, but which speak a similar language from the Lekhitic sub-group of Slavic languages.
Collectively these people have been called Wends (particularly in histories of the early middle ages), although the subgroups are the (still existent) Sorbs of Germany, the Kashubs of Poland, their close relatives the until recently identifiable Slovincians of Germany, assimilated Pomeranians of Germany, and the linguistically extinct Polabians from a bit further west in Germany.
In this case, I was alerted by the fact that the new leader of Poland, Donald Tusk, is a Kashub.
voluntaryxchange.typepad.com /voluntaryxchange/2005/09/a_little_wend_t.html   (444 words)

  
 Pomeranian language
It is a form of Low Saxon with Slavic influence.
Pomeranian is also a group of Lekhitic dialects, including Kashub and the extinct Slovincian.
These dialects were mainly spoken in eastern Pomerania, which today is included in Poland.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Pomeranian_language.html   (68 words)

  
 Albert Forster
Despite his relatively mild administration of occupied Polish Territory, Forster was responsible of expulsion of several hundred thousands Poles to the General Governement and Stutthof concentration camp.
He was also one of the responsibles for mass murder at Piasnica, where approximately 60 000 Polish and Kashub inteligentsia were killed.
After the war he was condemed by Polish court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and was hanged in 1947.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Forster.html   (237 words)

  
 Dettlaff Family Genealogy Forum (25 Latest Messages)
Re: DETTLAFF of POLAND 1800-1880's (Kashub) - Lisa Schultz 11/04/02
Re: DETTLAFF of POLAND 1800-1880's (Kashub) - Tim Dettlaff 7/23/01
DETTLAFF of POLAND 1800-1880's (Kashub) - Wm Huddleston 12/19/00
genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/latest.cgi?dettlaff   (104 words)

  
 Polish/Kashub Festival
As Custodians of Canada's Polish Kashub History, the Wilno Heritage Society is proud to celebrate their Polish Kashub Heritage.
This is a celebration of Poland's constitution and a celebration of the Feast of St. Mary - Queen of Poland..
KASHUB DAY is a day to relax and enjoy the great music we have here in the Bonnechere and Madawaska Valleys.
www.wilno.org /culture/festival.html   (221 words)

  
 Wilno Villager - History and Heritage
When the Kashubs emigrated to Canada, they brought with them many traditions including the celebrations around Polish Constitution Day on May 3.
After the long hard dreary winter, families would come by horse and buggy and wagon from miles around for special church services and concerts and entertainment centred on the church.
Built mostly by hand with local labor the church was completed in 1937 and replaced the earlier chapel of St. Stanislaus Kostka which burnt to the ground in 1936.
www.wilnovillager.on.ca /history.htm   (630 words)

  
 Viewing a thread - Kashubes - German or Polish?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As with many others Kashubs, his blood line migrated southward from the Polish Kashubian region, eventually landing in what was once, and more recently again, called Slovakia.
In the family she insisted that she was a Kashub with a special language, although my cousins and I observed her talking to German neighbors in German, and in Polish to Polish neighbors.
I think that if Kashubes identified themselves as Polish as Yahta screams out, it was because they wanted to assimilate and not be considered hillbillies by Poles, and secondly it was difficult even for real Germans in the US to identify themelves as German after 1914 and 1939.
www.kashuba.org /mbbs22/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=44&posts=9&mid=226   (1272 words)

  
 Winona Daily News - 6.0
Frymark, 33, co-owns a bed and breakfast that specializes in the history and culture of its Kashub region.
“The Kashubs were never Polish enough for Poland and never German enough for Germany,” Frymark said, repeating an old saw he still hears often.
And when he returns home, Frymark can tell his Polish guests where a lot of the Kashubs ended up: a place where the local Polish bakery still makes rye bread and Kosciusko is put right next to the name Washington on elementary buildings.
www.winonadailynews.com /articles/2005/11/16/news/00lead.txt   (1213 words)

  
 Walsh County Names n-p
One of the most common Kashub names found everywhere throughout Kashub, Poland, in Barry's Bay, Renfrew, Otter Lake areas, where spelled Norloch or Norlock.
A well known name among the Kashubs as well as elsewhere in Poland.
Perhaps origins of the name are in the village of Pa?ubice, Kashub Poland.
rrnet.com /~lreski/nop.htm   (360 words)

  
 Welcome to The Ottawa Valley
Fenced with stones, stumps and rails in the old style.
Walk the path of the pioneer Kashub settlers.
Stop at the crosses erected in the old polish tradition.
www.ottawavalley.org /mediashortstories_witamydlowilno.html   (173 words)

  
 Pokrant.com
The term "Kashub" referred to the Province of Neumark which the State of Brandenburg established in 1405.
The Neumark was established on the territory where the Slavic Kashub had been living up until this time.
These Slavic Kashubians who did not assimilate (and the ajority did not) with the German settlers moved into northern West Prussia which was called Pommerellen after 1450 when the Polish state took this land from the Teutonic Knights.
www.pokrant.com /index.html   (339 words)

  
 Kashub/Polish Culture in Canada
Renfrew County is Canada's Polish Kashub Heartland with Wilno being the centre.
The Polish Kashub History in Canada will be 150 years old in the year 2008.
Many great social and government leaders have been produced through this Kashub culture which is rich in tradition and endures with strength and growth even to this day.
www.wilno.org /culture.html   (150 words)

  
 Artful Dodge - Selections from 30/31 - Stanislaw Eden-Tempski - "The Orchid Hunter"
But, since all three were also Kashub and shared the Kashubian language, they lived in peace and harmony until a certain Austrian with a moustache like Charlie Chaplin's tried to stage his own version of the world-wide nationalist grotesque.
When an angry Pole from central Poland, the "Poland proper," wanted to say "kiss my ass!" he used the standard word "dupa." A Kashub, instead, used the old Slavic noun "rzec," borrowed the verb "kiss" from some Flemish sailor and preserved the old form of the pronoun "me" that had been used by his ancestors.
In any case, Szymon Bald's father was a captain in the Prussian army, who later, in spite of a dearth of bigger wars, or maybe thanks to it, advanced to lieutenant-colonel and went on to place his two sons in a school for cadets in Berlin.
www.wooster.edu /artfuldodge/selections/3031/edentempski.htm   (3397 words)

  
 Viewing a thread - Kashub surname   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
My Maternal grandmother was Kashub - (Dopke) She used to say they came from around Coblenz, which was in Germany.
I reas that right around the turn of the century, times were tough in the Kaschbian Region.
A lot of Kashubs immigrated to USA and other places.
www.kashuba.org /mbbs22/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=57&posts=2   (186 words)

  
 Walsh County Names r-s
One of the earliest settlers on the Opeongo Road was a Rogala, but the name has disappeared in that region.
A real Kashub name; 1 in Winona phone directory; 9 families of Rogalla at least in the Minto, Warsaw, North Dakota regions.
The name is very German, yet there are lots of Schusters among the Kashubs.
rrnet.com /~lreski/rs.htm   (295 words)

  
 Kashubian Christmas to Remember
Only the beam of an occasional passing car would gingerly feel its' way along the street in the darkness.
It was Christmas Eve and my thoughts started to drift back a long time ago, to a little village in Pomerania, the homeland of the Kashubs.
Grandmother said: Only a real Kashub can hear and see the "Karzelki's", which lives under the floor boards in Kashubian homes.
members.shaw.ca /lipinsky/02-stories/05-kchristmas/christmas-story.html   (946 words)

  
 Ernst-Reuter-Schule, Neu-Eichenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Kashub traditions and their cultivation are very important.
Handcrafts, music and folk dancing is practised and often performed.
Many families are of German origin, the school wants to offer German language courses, but the school government emphasizes the Kashub language training.
www.schulserver.hessen.de /neu-eichenberg/ernst-reuter/english/europa/luzi.html   (206 words)

  
 wcr:07/03/2006 — Fr. Aloysius Rekowski: Scripture scholar translated poem
During the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s he was part of the staff of the Redemptorist Retreat House in Tacoma, Wash., did adult education for the Archdiocese of Seattle, did parish work in Great Falls, Mont., and for 26 years he served as chaplain in St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon.
For many years, while stationed at St. Mary's in Saskatoon, Rekowski also did pastoral work and translated a famous epic poem from Kashub into English entitled An 1880 Journey through Kashub Poland.
Previously he had written a history of the Kashub people in Canada, Poland and the United States.
www.wcr.ab.ca /news/2006/0703/rekowski070306.shtml   (453 words)

  
 Wilno Heritage Society - The Kashub Corner
In recent years, as Canadians in general have become proud of their ethnic origins, and family history has become the all-consuming passion of so many Canadian, those Canadians descended from the Kashubs who immigrated to this area have become eager to learn about their heritage too.
In this column "the Canadian-Kashub-corner" we would like to present stories which would be of interest to the descendants of the Kashubs who settled in this area who are searching to learn more about their heritage.
The story can be told in autobiographical style, as I have done in the following story, or in any way the writer wishes to present it.
www.wilno.org /kashub.html   (166 words)

  
 Wilno Station Inn & Red Canoe Cafe
Located next to historic Polish Kashub park and directly on the hiking and walking trail.
We are located in the heart of the historic Village of Wilno next to beautiful Kashub Heritage Park.
As well as being historically significant as the First Polish Settlement in Canada, the Wilno area is also known for the many talented artists and artisans who live and work in studios and homes in the nearby hills.
www.webspawner.com /users/wilnostation   (986 words)

  
 Selected Somatic Features According to Kashub Children’s Place of Living   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Selected somatic features according to Kashub children’s place of living
638 boys and 578 girls living in Kashub villages as well as 811 boys and 742 girls living in Kashub towns were subject to researches.
The aim of the study was to show how the place of living (small town – village) influences their physical development.
www.pap.edu.pl /biologia/zaworski/12_02_selected_somatic_features.htm   (159 words)

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