Despite the generally low level of economic achievement among Winnipeg's immigrant communities in the early post-migration years, they were aware that conditions could be worse for relatives and friends still in Europe. Some of the earliest public entertainments were in aid of the homeland. In this photograph a group of Polish children is giving a performance to raise money for famine relief in Poland in 1913. The need is symbolized by the sheaf of wheat. The children, dressed in stylized costumes of the district of Cracow, are gathered under the national symbol of Poland.
