Wilbert George Doneleyko (February 13, 1913 – January 27, 1990), last name also spelled Doneley, was a politician in Manitoba,

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. Born in

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, he was educated there and worked for the Manitoba Co-operative Honey Producers Limited as a warehouse manager. Doneleyko served in the

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from 1945 to 1949 as a member of the

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. He was defeated by

Nicholas Stryk Nicholas John Stryk (December 17, 1896 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire – July 11, 1950) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1941 to 1945, and again from 1949 unti ...

when he ran for reelection in 1949 as an independent. He was expelled from the CCF caucus for publicly opposing

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activities in Europe. In 1945, Doneleyko ran unsuccessfully as a CCF candidate for the

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seat in the Canadian House of Commons. He died in

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in 1990 at the age of 76. He had been suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia,

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and

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