priests, who formed the majority of that church’s priesthood, to serve in North America. In Winnipeg some of the early leaders of the Ukrainian-Canadian community, including Ivan (John) Bodrug, Cyril Genik

district northwest of Vegreville (Alta), he found seasonal employment in the mines of British Columbia and then turned to full-time farming. When Ivan (John) Bodrug and Aleksii Bachynsky visited in the fall

two other Galician activists, Ivan (John) Bodrug and Ivan (John) Negrich, he founded the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in Canada, Kanadyiskyi farmer/Canadian Farmer (Winnipeg), in 1903 and