Who’s In That Photo?

Exhibit Extended to May 30th!

Daly House Museum is pleased to announce the extension of their latest exhibit Who’s in that Photo? Discovering Brandon’s Polish Roots in Photographs until May 30, 2025.  The exhibit, on loan from Ottawa genealogist Frank Cedar, features 58 reproduced photos that shed an interesting light on immigration to Canada and the Prairies in the late 1800s.  It focuses on Polish families with surnames such as Broda, Konieczny, Bojarski, Sowa, Dolny, Walchuk, Wielgosz, Lorenowics, and Kolodziejczyk that came from a small village in south east Poland called Kazcyce to settle in Brandon, Manitoba and Melville, Saskatchewan.

Unfortunately, the knowledge of some of the people in the images has been lost to time.  Therefore, exhibit creator Frank Cedar is calling on the public to help him identify those individuals before he takes the exhibit to the Canadian Embassy in Poland.

“Frank in a sense has rescued these photographs and is bring back the stories of the individuals depicted in them.” Commented Curator Eileen Trott. “It is Daly House’s honour to share that story on Frank’s behalf with the community.  We hope that the public will help us help him identify the unknown and reconnect us to their forgotten history and our province’s shared history with Poland.”

Daly House Museum is located at 122-18^th Street, Brandon, Manitoba. The Museum is open Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.