Early Ukrainian Settlements in Canada 1895-1900 : Dr. Josef Oleskow’s Role in the Settlement of the Canadian Northwest

This volume examines Ukrainian settlement in western Canada in the late 1800s by presenting primary source documents created by Canadian government officials, Ukrainian emigrants, and Josef Oleskow (a Ukrainian professor who advocated and facilitated migration to western Canada). These documents include reports, petitions, correspondence, and memoirs. Curated by historian Vladimir J. Kaye (himself a Ukrainian immigrant who worked for Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration authority), the book weaves documents and supporting commentary together to chronicle both institutional and personal tales of Ukrainian migration to Canada. Throughout, the government bureaucracy that such migration necessitated underscores Oleskow’s role as a broker between Ukrainian settlers and Canadian authorities.