Digital Literacy: Exploring Russian and Ukrainian History in Canada

First Ukrainian Canadian Member of Parliament is Elected

14 September 1926

Michael Luchkovich (born 13 November 1892; died 21 April 1973) was born in the United States to Ukrainian immigrants who moved to Edmonton. In the 1926 federal election, Luchkovich was a candidate in Vegreville for the United Farmers of Alberta . He became the first Ukrainian Canadian to be elected to Parliament. A vigorous defender of minority rights, Luchkovich spoke out against the Holodomor in 1932–33. He was also a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. He ran for the CCF in the 1935 election but was defeated. He went on to write many books and translated many others into Ukrainian. Manoly Lupul Born Manoly Robert Lupul was a professor at the University of Alberta specializing in Ukrainian Canadian history, multiculturalism and the education of ethnic minorities in Western Canada. He helped establish and served as the first director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. A strong advocate for multiculturalism in Canada, he was instrumental in the creation of Ukrainian-English bilingual education programs in the Prairie provinces.

14 August 1927

1 October 1923 Kim Yaroshevskaya Born

Kim Yaroshevskaya was an orphan by the age of seven. She quickly realized that imagination could rescue people from harsh realities. Yaroshevskaya immigrated to Canada at the age of 10. She went on to enrich the lives and stimulate the imaginations of several generations of children with her roles on French-language children’s television shows. She played the living doll Fanfreluche ( Fafouin , La Boîte à Surprise , Fanfreluche ) and the grandmother on the cult classic Passe-Partout .