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Michael Nicholas Hryhorczuk
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Lawyer, MLA (1950-1953), MLA (1954-1957), MLA (1958-1959), MLA (1959-1962), MLA (1963-1966).
Born in the Venlaw district on 28 November 1905, son of Nicholas Apoluner Hryhorczuk and Anastasia “Nelly” Dzaman (1890-1973), he graduated from the Ethelbert High School then taught at Kulish School for a year. He received a BA degree from the University of Saskatchewan then a law degree from the University of Manitoba (1930). After articling in law for a year with Allan Thomas Warnock at Dauphin, he established his own law practice at Ethelbert. He was made a Queen’s Counsel in 1956.
Elected to the Manitoba Legislature in the 1949 general election, representing the Ethelbert constituency, he was re-elected in 1953, 1958, 1959, and 1962. During this period, he served as Attorney General in the government of Douglas Lloyd Campbell. He did not stand for re-election in 1966.
On 30 July 1927, he married Mary Pelechaty (?-?) at the Ethelbert Catholic Church. They had a son, Boris Hryhorczuk. In 1933, in partnership with John Bracken, with whom he was a personal friend, he established a cattle ranch in the Duck Mountains. He served as Reeve of the Rural Municipality of Ethelbert (1941-1945), Chairman of the Ethelbert School (12 years), Treasurer of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (7 years), and was a founding member and second President of the Dauphin National Ukrainian Festival, President of the Ethelbert branch of the Red Cross Society, and President of the Ethelbert Chamber of Commerce.
He died at Ethelbert on 11 July 1978 and was buried in the Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Bank of Montreal Building (5 North Railway Avenue, Ethelbert, Municipality of Ethelbert)
Birth registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Pioneer woman lawyer heads list of nine Manitoba QCs,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 1955, page 15.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 13 July 1978, page 135.
The Ties That Bind: A History of Ethelbert and District by Ethelbert History Book Committee, 1985, page 269-270.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 November 2024
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