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Mike Starr of Oshawa

A Political Biography

By: Myron Momryk

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Mike Starr had a remarkable career in Canadian politics. In June 1957, he was appointed Minister of Labour in John Diefenbaker’s cabinet and created a sensation, especially among Canadian ethnocultural groups. He made political history as the first Ukrainian Canadian appointed to federal cabinet. As Minister of Labour, Starr was faced with numerous national problems, including seasonal unemployment, regional disparities, union negotiations and emerging militant nationalism in Quebec. When the Diefenbaker government was defeated in the 1963 federal election, Starr returned to his earlier role as Member of Parliament. With the changing Canadian political environment, he was defeated by a tiny margin in the 1968 federal election. Starr continued his distinguished career of public service from 1968 to 1980. He promoted the increasing involvement of ethnocultural groups in Canada political life. In recent decades, it has become a political norm to have members of various ethnocultural and visible minority groups elected to the House of Commons, and appointed to Cabinet and other senior government positions. For breaking this barrier, Mike Starr was indeed a pioneer in Canadian politics. This book is published in English.

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The Cold War in Val-d'Or

A History of the Ukrainian Community in Val-d’Or, Quebec

By: Myron Momryk

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The Cold War in Val-d'Or

A History of the Ukrainian Community in Val-d’Or, Quebec

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The Cold War in Val-d'Or, A History of the Ukrainian community in Val-d'Or, Quebec is a mini-history of an ethnocultural community in northwestern Quebec. The story has many similarities to the evolution of immigrant and ethnocultural groups in many one-industry towns in northern Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba. This study should be of special interest to the many former residents of Val-d'Or who lived in an isolated resource town in a predominantly francophone milieu. The mining economy and the local cultural environment shaped this community but also the left-right political rivalry during the Cold War years documented in the surveillance reports prepared by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). This surveillance by the RCMP may also interest students and researchers in Canadian labour and political history. Ukrainian immigrants arrived in the Abitibi region as prospectors and miners in the 1930s and established the first rival pro-communist and nationalist community organizations that reflected their political orientation. This rivalry was the &‘motor' that activated the community but also perpetuated political differences that is the main theme of this study.

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1771615184

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The Cold War in Val-d'Or

A History of the Ukrainian Community in Val-d’Or, Quebec

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The Cold War in Val-d'Or

A History of the Ukrainian Community in Val-d’Or, Quebec

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Mike Starr of Oshawa

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The Cold War in Val-d'Or

A History of the Ukrainian Community InVal-d'Or, Quebec

By: Myron Momryk

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The Cold War in Val-d'Or

A History of the Ukrainian Community InVal-d'Or, Quebec

By: Myron Momryk

This is an important contribution to the understanding of Canadian and Quebec history, and to an appreciation of a unique Ukrainian community which found itself resident in Quebec from the early part of the 20th century. "The declaration of the First World War on August 15, 1914 against Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary by Great Britain found several thousand recent Ukrainian immigrants across Canada in a difficult situation. Those who were not naturalized were considered as "enemy aliens" and they were subject to registration and, if necessary, internment...Among the internment camps established in various parts of Canada, an internment camp was established on 13 January, 1915 at Spirit Lake (near Amos, Quebec) to hold "enemy aliens"...The plans were to use the internees to clear the land and develop an experimental farm to aid in the settlement of this region... The first internees arrived in January 1915 in the middle of winter..Among the 1,144 Austrian prisoners interned in this camp in 1916 were a large number of Galicians or Ukrainians, recent immigrants from Austria-Hungary.." So begins this unique historical narrative written by Myron Momryk. "The case of Val-d'Or is especially interesting, being a city situated 530 kilometres northwest of Montreal and in may respects similar to the mining communities with significant Ukrainian populations established around the same time in Kirkland Lake and Timmins, across the border in Ontario.These and other cities and towns that grew around resource industries in remote ares in the Canadian Shield have a distinct make-up, which was naturally reflected in their Ukrainian organizational activity. Having a strong working-class character, they frequently witnessed strikes and labour unrest that were influenced in no small part by ideological differences between radical trade unionists sympathetic to the Communist Party and the Soviet Union, and the often more conservative immigrants from Ukraine. Although seemingly far removed from world events, the Cold War was very much a factor in some of the developments that took place in the one-industry settlements in the northern reaches of Ontario and Quebec."--

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