Historian.
Born at Brandon in 1939, daughter of Catherine Kuzyk (1912-2009) and Walter Michalchyshyn (1909-2000), she received her elementary and secondary education in Brandon and Shoal Lake before moving with her family to Winnipeg in 1959. She received BA (1971), MA (1974), and PhD (1985) degrees from the University of Manitoba, specializing in Ukrainian history. She taught and did historical research at the University in the Departments of History, Educaiton, and German and Slavic Studies. She and husband Frederick George “Fred” Stambrook developed an active interest in the immigrant experience to Canada and the multicultural diversity of Hapsburg-Galicia. She was named a YWCA Woman of Distinction (1993).
Her publications for the Manitoba Historical Society:
An Interview with Mr. Emil Michaels
Manitoba History, Number 4, 1982
“Women credit family values for drive to serve community,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 May 1993, page 21.
Obituary [Walter Michalchyshyn], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 September 2000.
Obituary [Catherine Michalchyshyn], Winnipeg Free Press, 13 October 2009.
Stella Hryniuk fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 December 2024
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