An exhibition opening this week at the Leddy Library will celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski, elected to Canada’s inaugural parliament in 1867—the first Polish-Canadian member of the House of Commons.

Kierzkowski, who died in 1870, was also a civil engineer and military officer.

The exhibition is a collaborative effort of the library and the Polish-Canadian Business and Professional Association of Windsor. After its display in the Leddy Library, it will travel to the Ontario legislature, Parliament Hill in Ottawa and the Polish parliament in Warsaw.

A brief ceremony will officially open the exhibition on the library’s first floor at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 16.