A Man of Vision and Action: Commemorating Rev. W. Kudryk's 50 years of Dedicated Service to the Ukrainian Community in Canada as a Journalist, Author, Lecturer and Clergyman ; Muz h ideï i prat s i : v 50-litti a hromadsk o-z h urnalistichnoï ta t s erkovnoï prat s i o. V. Kudryka

pp. 126, [1]. 8vo., measuring 24 cm. Light-blue, textured, card covers. Black-and-white portrait frontispice of the subject. Additional black-and-white photographs, portraits, etc. Single, unobtrusive, stamp to the title page (not ex-library), text-block without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; fine. Corresponds to OCLC #14041685. Not found in BAC/LAC at time of cataloguing. Rare in commerce. Text chiefly in Ukrainian. Vasyl Kudryk [ , ], b 13 October 1880 in Tsebriv, Ternopil county, Galicia, d 7 October 1963 in Winnipeg. Educator, author, journalist, and priest. Kudryk immigrated to Canada in 1903 and settled near Tolstoi, Manitoba. He taught in several Ukrainian rural school districts. His short stories and articles appeared in the Ukrainian press, while his poetry came out in a separate collectionVesna (Spring, 1911). As editor of Ukraïnskyi holos from 1910 to 1921, he played a prominent role in founding the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada. In 1923 he was ordained, and he then served as a priest in Alberta and Saskatchewan. From 1941 to 1954 he edited Visnyk (Winnipeg), the official semimonthly of the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada. His publications include a number of polemical works such as Chuzha ruka (The Foreign Hand, 1935) and Malovidome z istoriï uniiatskoï tserkvy (Little-Known Facts from the History of the Uniate Church, 4 vols, 19526). [Source: The Encyclopedia of Ukraine].…