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...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...
...easy as that. He went to work for a Mennonite farmer at Gretna, Manitoba, for $110 a year and keep. By 1903 he had saved enough to return to the Ukraine for his wife and three children. They brought ten other Ukrainian families to Canada with them...
...same time, informed quarters said the United States delegation and probably France and China were prepared to support a Ukrainian proposal that the 1947 session of the Assembly beheld in Europe. The Ukrainian resolution, last item on the agenda, was said to have a fair chance of approval. Its acceptance would not affect the assembly's earlier decision to make its permanent headquarters in New York City...
...Fisher. But when Hall realized that Fisher was trying to make him rob a church, he got religion and called the police: "We broke into a church, but I'm not going through with it." The house of God on East Fourth Street, thus providentially spared, was the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America...