Located in a fenced-off corner of the St. Vincent De Paul churchyard, where 25 of the 20,000 Polish-American soldiers who trained in NOTL to fight for an independent Polish army in the First World War are buried. While they were in Niagara, billeted in tents, barns, barracks and homes around town, an epidemic of influenza broke out and took the lives of the small number of soldiers, before they could be sent to France to join General Jozef Haller’s Polish Army.

Each year, on the second Sunday in June, local Poles march from downtown NOTL to the cemetery plots, commemorating the spirit of the soldiers and the liberation of their motherland, and thanking Canadians for hosting and caring for the soldiers while they were on Canadian soil.