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Memorable Manitobans: Tymofei Koreichuk (1879-1919)Labour organizer. Born in Bukovyna (Ukraine), he was an active socialist organizer there until he immigrated to Canada in 1913. He soon became involved with the Federation of Ukrainian Social Democrats, moving in 1914 to Winnipeg to serve as its western organizer. He briefly ran a bookstore in Winnipeg’s North End in 1916. Koreichuk was a highly experienced labour organizer whose work was limited only by his ill health. He later settled near Vegreville, Alberta. He was arrested for making seditious speeches and interned at a camp near Vernon, British Columbia, in 1919, where he died of tuberculosis. More information:
Sources:Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999. Page revised: 17 October 2008
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