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A society debut

Black and white newspaper clipping announcing two debutantes. A headshot of each woman printed side by side with text above and below.

The Montreal Star, 26 September 1931

Mary Gzowski and her sister Helen in their “debutant” year. The Gzowskis were an aristocratic family of Polish origin. Mary’s father, Casimer Stanislas Gzowski, was the chief engineer of construction for the Canadian National Railway and the grandson of Sir Casimer Gzowski, who fled Poland after the Polish Revolution of 1830.