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Eugeniusz Baranowski

ID: OS-007310-P/149527

Eugeniusz Baranowski

First name:

Eugeniusz

Last Name:

Baranowski

Date of birth:

1914

Date of death:

1985

Place od death:

Montreal

Age:

71

Profession:

NCO, engineer, military

Honours and awards:

Order of Canada

Biography:

Eugeniusz Baranowski (1914-1985), engineer, cadet corporal. He took part in the battles for Narvik, and after the fall of France studied at the Polytechnic Institute of the University of Grenoble. He arrived in Canada in 1942 and worked for many years in a paper mill design company. He was a well-known social activist in the Polish community in Montreal. Thanks to his commitment, in 1966, a statue of Nicolaus Copernicus (replica of the Warsaw statue by Thorvaldsen) was erected at the World Expo'67 in Montreal as a gift from the Polish community to the city (now standing at1000 St. Jacques in Montreal). Awarded the Order of Canada (Member)

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