John Hawryluk
John Martin Hawryluk (December 8, 1910 in Winnipeg, Manitoba – December 5, 1975) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1949 to 1962, initially for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and later for its successor party, the NDP. The son of Michael Hawryluk and Maria Marcinow, Hawryluk was educated at the University of Manitoba, from which he received Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Education and Master of Education degrees. He served as a teacher and vice principal at Prince Edward School and later as the school principal of Polson School, Melrose Junior High and Munroe Junior High in East Kildonan, retiring from Munroe Junior High in 1974. He was also president of the Winnipeg Ukrainian and Professional Business Men's Club, and the Manitoba Teachers' Society. Hawryluk served in the senate and on the board of Regents for the University of Winnipeg. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1949 elect ...
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it the sixth-largest city, and eighth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water" - “winipīhk”. The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples long before the arrival of Europeans; it is the traditional territory of the Anishinabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota, and is the birthplace of the Métis Nation. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. Being far inland, the local cl ...
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