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Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, is home to one of Canada’s oldest Polish communities. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Polish immigrants settled in most of the coal and steel towns of the region, joined by a smaller number of more recent arrivals. The centre of the region’s Polonia is the multicultural neighbourhood of Whitney Pier, home to St. Mary’s Polish Church and the Polish Village...