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11.11.2012
On Friday, 28 September 2012, a trilingual plaque recalling Canada's first national internment operations was unveiled, and blessed, at the Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, in the Whitney Pier district of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Established in 1912 this parish was grievously affected by the internment operations, with many of its menfolk - coalminers and iron workers - branded as "enemy aliens," some of whom were then interned in camps at Amherst, Halifax, and elsewhere across Canada. Placed by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, in collaboration with Cape Breton's Ukrainian community and with the financial support of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund, the plaque is now permanently installed inside this historic church. During the unveiling ceremony... |
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11.11.2012
It is with great sadness that the Ukrainian Canadian Congress learned of the passing of Roman Melnyk on October 3, 2012, following an unexpected and brief struggle with cancer, at the age of 71. “On behalf of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and all its constituent member organizations, I would like to express our deepest condolences to Roman’s wife Tania and to all his family and friends,” stated Paul Grod, UCC President. “Roman will be remembered as someone who made a positive difference through his work in television as well as his generosity as a volunteer and financial supporter of the community. The Ukrainian Canadian community has suffered a great loss with his passing and his wonderful sense of humour will be dearly missed by all those who had the pleasure of knowing him.” Roman Melnyk was a lawyer and former television executive. He believed... |
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06.10.2012
 Recently the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies published volumes 33-34 (2008-2009) of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies. This 628-page quadruple issue, titled Tentorium honorum, is a collection of thirty-three essays presented to Professor Frank E. Sysyn on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Professor Sysyn is a distinguished scholar of Ukrainian and Polish history and has been a major figure in the development of Ukrainian historical studies in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Germany for more than three decades. He is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta and, since 1990, director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at CIUS and editor-in-chief of its Hrushevsky Translation Project. Professor Sysyn is the author of Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653 (1985), Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001), and studies on the Khmelnytsky Uprising, Ukrainian historiography, and early modern Ukrainian political culture. He is also coauthor, with Serhii Plokhy, of Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine (2003)... |
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10.09.2012
On May 7, 2012 the Consul General of the Republic of Poland, the Hon. Marek Ciesielczuk, awarded former Canadian M.P. and M.P.P. Yuri Shymko with the Medal of Gratitude established by the European Solidarity Center to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the birth of Solidarity. Yuri Shymko was among a select group of international recipients who, during the 1980’s, supported Solidarność and the democratic opposition in Poland in its struggle for freedom and democracy. The Certificate of Honour accompanying the Medal of Gratitude states that “Yuri Shymko contributed through his great sacrifices and support to the rebuilding of a liberated Poland and the unification of Europe”... |
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10.09.2012
The Festival Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that music legend Oleh Skrypka of Ukraine will perform 4 shows over the three day Festival as follows: Friday Sept. 14 at 9PM – Lviv Jazz with Vasyl Popadiuk & band on the Main Stage; Friday Sept.14 at midnight – with VV; Saturday at 9PM the main HEADLINE SHOW on the MAIN STAGE with VV celebrating their 25th anniversary as Ukraine’s top rock band and Saturday midnight a special DJ show. This is being made possible through the generous grant from Celebrate Ontario and the sponsorship of Ukrainian Credit Union Limited and the Four Points Sheraton Hotel Lakeshore... |
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10.08.2012
The Board of Directors of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada proudly begins the year-long celebrations commemorating the organization’s founding in Edmonton on July 17, 1932. National President Taras Pidzamecky stated that “80 years ago in Edmonton, this organization was created to unite Ukrainian Canadians, irrespective of Christian denomination, around the objectives of preserving Ukrainian language and culture in Canada, promoting good citizenship, and supporting the establishment of an independent Ukrainian state... |
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