Kirill Ivanovich Genik ( Ukrainian: Kirilo Ivanovich Genik ; 1857 , Nizhny Berezov village, Kosovo district , Ivano-Frankivsk region - February 12, 1925 , Winnipeg , Canada ) - Ukrainian - Canadian public and cultural figure, journalist. It is included in the Canadian “ List of Persons Significant for National History ".
| Kirill Ivanovich Genik | |
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| Ukrainian Kirilo Ivanovich Genik | |
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| Date of Birth | 1857 |
| Place of Birth | Nizhny Berezov |
| Date of death | February 12, 1925 |
| A place of death | Winnipeg Canada |
| A country | |
| Occupation | , , |
| Father | Ivan Genik |
| Mother | Anna Pertsovich |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 References
- 3 bibliography
- 4 References
- 5 See also links
Biography
Born in 1857 in the village of Nizhny Berezov in Galicia in the family of Ivan Genik, the village headman, and Anna Pertsovich. He received his primary education in the city of Kolomyia , then left for Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk ), where he received a pedagogical education. He received a bachelor 's degree in Lviv and was appointed a teacher in 1879 near the city of Nadvirna . In 1882, Genik returned to his native village and opened a school there. In the 1880s, Genik founded a flour mill and a production cooperative, which he called "Carpathian Shop". In 1890 he was elected to the city council of the city of Kolomyia [1] .
After some time, Genik met Osip Oleskov, who encouraged the emigration of Ukrainians to Canada. Oleskov asked Genik to escort a group of 64 Ukrainians to Canada and assist them in arranging the place. Genick and his wife and four children joined a group of immigrants and on June 22, 1896 arrived with them in Quebec . Initially, Genik and a group of Ukrainians traveled to Winnipeg , and from there they went deep into the province of Manitoba and founded the settlement of Stuartburn, which today is considered the first Ukrainian community in Western Canada. In August, Genick applied for a land allotment (homestead) in Stuartburn, but quickly changed his mind and moved to Winnipeg. In the same month, Oleskov recommended Genik as an immigration agent to the Canadian Department of the Interior, and in September Genik became a freelance employee in the ministry who provided interpretation and translation services. On duty, Genik also met new Ukrainian immigrants in Quebec, whom he urged to use English, abandon their customs and, if necessary, acted as a consultant [1] . As the immigration of Ukrainians to Canada increased, Genik’s workload increased so much that in 1898 he was hired by the Canadian Government full-time, thus becoming the first Ukrainian-Canadian civil servant on a permanent basis [2] .
In 1899, Genik in his house established a reading room to them. Tarasa Shevchenko [3] , and in 1903 founded the first Canadian Canadian-language newspaper, Canadian Farmer. Genik was not a religious person, but he was convinced that Christianity should exist independently of Greek-Orthodox and Russian-Orthodox norms, and in 1903-1904, in collaboration with Presbyterian pastors, he founded the "Independent Orthodox Church" [4] . In 1911, after the Liberal Party of Canada lost the election, Genik lost his job. For some time he lived in the United States of America, but later returned to Winnipeg, where he died on February 12, 1925 [1] .
At the time of his death, Genik was so popular that in the Ukrainian community of Canada he was known as the “King of Canada” [2] [5] .
Links
- ↑ 1 2 3 Stella Grinyuk . Cyril Genik . Dictionary of Canadian Biography . Date of treatment January 25, 2011. Archived February 17, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900-1977 . Citizenship and Immigration Canada (2000). Date of treatment January 25, 2011. Archived February 17, 2013.
- ↑ Martynowych, Orest T., The Taras Shevchenko Reading Club / Educational Society for ... umanitoba.ca/faculties/.../04_The_Taras_Shevchenko_Reading_Club.pdf -
- ↑ Martynowych, Orest T., The Seraphimite, Independent Greek, Presbyterian and United Churches, umanitoba.ca/...canadian.../05_The_Seraphimite_Independent_Greek_Presbyterian_and_United_Churches.pdf -
- ↑ Family of CCT (Con) Genik. Obituary for CCT (Con) Genik . Passages MB (2010). Date of treatment January 25, 2011.
bibliography
- Dictionary of Ukrainian Canadian biography, pioneer settlers of Manitoba , 1891-1900, VJ Kaye, editor and compiler (Toronto, 1975).
- Oleksander Dombrovsky, Outline of the history of the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed movement (New York et Toronto, 1979) [text in Ukrainian].
- A heritage in transition: essays in the history of Ukrainians in Canada , MR Lupul , editor (Toronto, 1982).
- J.-P. Himka, Galician villagers and the Ukrainian national movement in the nineteenth century (New York, 1988).
- VJ Kaye, Early Ukrainian settlements in Canada , 1895-1900 Dr. Josef Oleskow's role in the settlement of the Canadian northwest (Toronto, 1964).
- OT Martynowych, The Seraphimite, Independent Greek, Presbyterian and United Churches, umanitoba.ca/...canadian.../05_The_Seraphimite_Independent_Greek_Presbyterian_and_United_Churches.pdf -
- OT Martynowych, The Taras Shevchenko Reading Club / Educational Society for ... umanitoba.ca / faculties / ... / 04_The_Taras_Shevchenko_Reading_Club.pdf -
- OT Martynowych, Ukrainians in Canada: the formative period , 1891-1924 (Edmonton, 1991).
- MH Marunchak, Studies in the history of Ukrainians in Canada (5 vol. Published, Winnipeg, 1964-) [text in Ukrainian].
- OI Sych, From the "new land" letters of Ukrainian emigrants from Canada (Edmonton, 1991) [text in ukrainian].
Links
- Hryniuk, Stella . Cyril Genik . Dictionary of Canadian Biography . Archived February 17, 2013.
- Martynowych, Orest T., The Seraphimite, Independent Greek, Presbyterian and United Churches
- Martynowych, Orest T., The Taras Shevchenko Reading Club
See also links.
Orthodox Church of the All-Russian Patriarchate