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Ukrainian Studies in Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Bohdan Krawchenko
Bohdan Krawchenko*
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University of Alberta
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The development of university courses and programs in Ukrainian studies is a recent phenomenon in the ninety-year-old history of Ukrainians in Canada. It begins only with the end of World War II and coincides with the influx of the postwar immigration. Not only did this newest Ukrainian-Canadian population provide the bulk of the teaching staff for Ukrainian programs, but also the development of courses and programs was greatly stimulated by the educational needs of the various generations in this sector of the Ukrainian population. Prior to 1945, university courses in Ukrainian studies did not exist at Canadian universities. In evaluating the late arrival of Ukrainian studies on Canadian campuses, one should not lose sight of the fact that Slavic studies in this country are a relatively new development, stimulated by the last war and in particular by the need to deal with the Soviet allies. The first courses in the Russian language were introduced only in 1943, at Carleton College and Dalhousie University. The development of Ukrainian programs quickly followed the instroduction of Russian studies in Canada.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , Spring 1978 , pp. 26 - 43
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Copyright © 1978 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities (USSR and East Europe) Inc. 

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1. The first Ukrainian settlers, Wasyl Eleniak and Ivan Pillipiw, arrived in Canada in 1891.Google Scholar

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4. Following a recent announcement by the Parti Quebecois government of the province of Quebec that it favours the development of Ukrainian studies courses at the university level, a delegation of Ukrainian community leaders visited the French language Université de Montréal to explore the possibility of the introduction of such courses. No decision has as yet been made.Google Scholar

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