Word: elyniak
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...farm near Chipman, Alberta, the wizened little man first celebrated his 87th birthday. After that, Wasyl Elyniak packed his bag and headed east for a celebration in which all Canada would take part...
...first Ukrainian to settle in Canada, Farmer Elyniak had been picked to take part in the Citizenship Week celebrations at Ottawa. Along with 23 other representative Canadians, including Armenian-born Photographer Yousuf Karsh, he would be handed a certificate of citizenship from Chief Justice Rinfret. For the first time the certificates would carry the words "Canadian Citizen" (TIME, May 27) instead of "British Subject"-official evidence of a nation's coming of age. For Citizen Elyniak it would be a fitting last chapter of his life, which is also the story of the settlement and growth of the prairie...
Wheat, Barley & Keep. In 1891 Wasyl Elyniak left the Ukrainian village of Nebyliv, slipped into Germany, crossed the Atlantic to Montreal. There he was offered a job, but he turned it down. Out west, he had heard, land was being given away...
...four more years Elyniak worked for farmers at Gretna, drew $80 a year plus 80 bu. of wheat and 40 bu. of barley. He bought a team of oxen, two cows, 30 chickens, a wagon and a plow, shipped them west to Edmonton in a freight car, then drove another 50 miles east to Chipman. There he settled with other Ukrainians, raised three sons and four daughters. The homesteading was rough, but not as hard as in the Ukraine...
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