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AND THE PILGRIMAGE TO. WINNIPEG,
MAY, 16-23, 1964 —

of which there appeared
about 15 issues and a. special
souvenir supplement,

The Ukrainian Canadian Vete- jd
rans’ Association which celeb
rate this year the 20th Anniver-
a duplicating machine were e sent
Club, had its birth in the to all
Ukrainian Servicemen’s Associa- | ae
tion (Active Service — Over-| When hostilities ceased | and
Manchester | the members began to be re-

| 50
i
England of the U.CS.A. aealeed |

seas) organized in-
early in 1943. It all started from | |
a decision by a dozen or so}

In addi- |]
sary of the opening in London, [tion circular letters printed on|

members as and when :

painiated, those among the first |
to return immediately set-up a /|

Canadian ‘Servicemen serving in| | | Veterans’ Headquarters in- Win- |
the Canadian Armed Forces in |nipeg. For a while both organi. ||

England at. that time, who Servicemen's
pened to be of Ukrainian origin,
to meet together the Ukrainian |
communiy in "Manchester in
order -eelebrate ‘Ukrainian
Chri ates aecording to the {ra-
ditional religious — rite always
followed and still adhered to in
Canada. Most. of these soldiers,
sailors and airmen were either
related or knew each other back
in Canada and majority came
from the Western provinces.
During the years 194042 a
few of the soldiers and airmen |. fall
who had come overseas with the | ian Canadian
First Canadian Division and
with first. Air ‘Force units (No.
1 Squadron, Wireless & Radar
Units, ete) had located © the :
small Ukrainian community in| needs of the servicemen, when-
Manchester . which dated back ever there was a choice Ukrain-
to pre-World War I days. Two |! ian Canadian servicemen  pre-
even got married with Ukrainian ‘ferred Legion Services.
Manchester girls. Through and
from therm others learned about | &
this small community. The first
organized - get- together was held
to celebrate Ukrainian -Christ-
mas aceording to the ‘traditional
rite of the Ukrainian churches,
January 6-7, 1943. This was a
very. “memorable ‘occasion. The
boys had the time of their lives.
They sang traditional Ukrainian
Christmas _ carols, had kootia id Cana
and the traditional Christmas velerans live or assemble there
dishes and talked over old times | in larger numbers, they are
back in. Cannda. “About forty encouraged - “to form Ukrainian
soldiers _ and airmen gathered Branches” of the Canadian Le-
at this first get- together. and | gion. And so it is that on the
before parting © had a_ formal) eve of the 25th Convention of
meeting. The- meeting unanim-
ously ‘recognized — and agreed
that there was a need for such | claim credit for bringing into
social contact cand organized the Canadian Legion directly or

themselves - into the Ukrainian indirectly, about 5000 members,
if not more,

Canadian Servicemen’s- Assotia-
tion — (Active - Service Overseas). Legion branches which arc al-

Canadian Military and Air Force most entirely Ukrainian EG:
Headquarters were informed as | monton, Winnipeg, _ Toronto,
were the folks back in Canada| Hamilton, St. Catharines and
through private correspondence | Montreal) there are a few
and — ‘through — cCOMMUNIQUES to | thousand members. scattered
the Ukrainian language press in throughout the country, the ma-
Canada. =e ae in branches” in W estern

| . » | Canada.

Lady. Susan Tweedsmuir graci- .
ously granted permission to act; On the occasion of the 2 25th
as patron of the U.C.S.A. and Annual Convention of the Royal
plans _ were immediately. laid Canadian Legion, Ukrainian
for future ‘get: togethers and a Canadians will” ‘also meet to
permanent _ Cluboin London mark the oath Anniversary of
which was loser to most of the | the founding in ney of the |°
units in which our boys served UCSA. Service lub. This ee
and generally more central and however is a very importan
convenient for all. The “Associa: | year for all Ukrainians through: |

out the world for. this is_ the

tion mushroomed - rapidly. Al

constitution was drawn up and | 150th enn thier the al
, launched of the Greatest U crainian poe

Fo ae eemongn Ma Taras” Shevchenko. In 1961 the

for gathering — names and
adarecess of Ukrainian- Canadians Ukrainian Canadians erected and
unveiled | a historic monument |

es. Within a

Petre! Sua thousand on the grounds of the Manitobe
names were. ‘obtained. | By the) Legislative Assembly in Win-
time the war ended, more than | nipeg. Ukrainian. veterans” in |
10,000 soldiers, airmen = and | general and Branch i4l peed
sailors, men an women, officers | ticular did very much towards |
and other ranks, had passed | the founding and official - tal
through the door of the U.CSA. veiling of that monument, a e
Service” ‘Club. . - occasion was the 100th Anniver: |
To. keep all members and the
| folks in. Canada informed, al
little booklet was. published
giving general Pcawound? in-
- formation regarding the U.C.S.A.
with names and_ addresses of
executive members _ and — the}

Ukrainians resident — in Britain, |

most of whom were in Man-|

chester. ‘Shortly after a non-)
periodic Newsletter was: = Janneky |

hap- jeaons the
the Veterans’
more and more from.
tion |
feeased to appear. ‘Instead a
veteran's publication appeare
in Wi innipeg, and this although
‘at times “irregularly,
“Newsletter” and as “Opinion”
‘has existed till today. -
Through the war, and since

ing of affiliation among Ukeain- |

Legion. Although there —
many different Canadian Service
Clubs overseas, catering to the

veterans’
the war arose the unanimous
choice was the Canadian Legion.
And so it happened that among
the aims of the UCVA now, one
of the leading ones is ‘to pro-
‘mote among Ukrainian Canadian
yeterans membership in exist-
ing branches of the Canadian
Legion.” Wherever no branch
exists and Ukrainian Canadian

peg, the U.C.V.A. can modestly

and a solemn - occasion. Now, |
3 years later it is fitting to hold
a veterans’ pilgrimage to tha to

on Sunday, “May 16th, on- the |
eve of the Legion Convention. Q

‘try t
historic occasion! oe |

were |

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_ UKRAINIAN CANADIAN ;
VETERANS ©
_IN WINNIPEG |

BEGINNING

| S, AT UR D: AY, M. AY 16th,

in ‘conjunction. with |

20 ve ANNUAL CONVENTION :
ROYAL . CANADIAN LEGION |

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TO MARK THE 150th ANNIVERSARY

OF THE BIRTH OF UKRAINIAN |
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