Canadian Polish Congress Canadian Polish Congress The Canadian-Polish Congress (, KPK), is a Canadian not-for-profit organization federally integrated on the 7th of February 1933 in Winnipeg, Manitoba which was previously known as the Federation of Polish Societies in Canada. It was later on reconstituted on the 16 of March 1948 as the Canadian Polish Congress. The change of the organization's name was during a General Meeting held in Toronto, capital of Ontario, during the 2nd to 4 September 1944. Once called the Federation of Polish Societies in Canada, it is the first Polonian umbrella organization created by Polish-Canadians who immigrated to Canada to
Winnipeg of the Red River Valley, a flood plain with an extremely flat topography. It is on the eastern edge of the Canadian Prairies in Western Canada and is known as the "Gateway to the West". Winnipeg is bordered by tallgrass prairie to the west and south and the aspen parkland to the northeast, although most of the native prairie grasses have been removed for agriculture and urbanization. It is relatively close to many large Canadian Shield lakes and parks, as well as Lake Winnipeg (the Earth's 11th largest freshwater lake). Winnipeg has North America's largest extant mature urban elm forest.