List of Canadian place names of Ukrainian origin

The following is a list of place names in Canada (primarily Western Canada) whose name origin is in the Ukrainian language. Some places – especially in Saskatchewan – were named by ethnic Germans from Ukraine.

This 1908 postmark is from Szewczenko, Manitoba (now called Vita). The post office's name is a Polonized spelling of the name of Ukraine's national poet, Taras Shevchenko.
Railways of Galicia before 1897. Place names are in their Polish language form.

Most of these places were rural communities without a railway or grain elevator and accessible solely by gravel road; typically consisting only of a church & cemetery, post office, school, and sometimes a community/national hall, a grocery/"general" store or a blacksmith shop.

Alberta

One-room schools

Rural communities

Edmonton

Neighbourhoods
Schools
Parks
Roads
  • Eleniak Road, Edmonton, after Wasyl Eleniak,[54] early pioneer[51]

Saskatchewan

One-room schools

Rural communities

Rural roads

Schools

Manitoba

Rural communities

Ontario

Rural communities

See also

References

    1. Sanders 2003, p. 48.
    2. MacGregor 1969, p. 206.
    3. MacGregor, p. 206, 215, 244 & 266; Luciuk and Kordan, maps 17 & 19.
    4. MacGregor, p. 206 & 215.
    5. Sanders, p. 322; MacGregor, p. 154.
    6. MacGregor, p. 211, 215 & 272.
    7. MacGregor, p. 215 & 272.
    8. MacGregor, p. 215 & 274.
    9. MacGregor, p. 215 & 273.
    10. MacGregor 1969, p. 215, 222 & 273.
    11. MacGregor 1969, p. 215, 228-29 & 271.
    12. MacGregor 1969, p. 215, 231 & 271.
    13. Choriawy, Cathy (1989). Commerce in the country : a land use and structural history of the Luzan grocery store. Edmonton: Alberta Culture, Historical Resources Division. p. 22.
    14. MacGregor 1969, p. 215, 231 & 273.
    15. MacGregor 1969, p. 215, 222, 227 & 272.
    16. MacGregor, p. 215, 226 & 272; Luciuk and Kordan, map 21.
    17. MacGregor 1969, p. 206, 215 & 273.
    18. MacGregor p. 215, 231 & 273.
    19. MacGregor 1969, p. 215, 226 & 272.
    20. http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/cihm_30425
    21. MacGregor, p. 75.
    22. MacGregor, p. 75-76.
    23. MacGregor, p. 211, 215, 226 & 272.
    24. see both "Population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine" and "Operation Vistula".
    25. MacGregor 1969, p. 215, 226, 231 & 273.
    26. MacGregor 1969, p. 157-158, 215 & 271.
    27. MacGregor 1969, p. 215, 219, 222 & 272.
    28. MacGregor 1969, p. 211, 215, 231 & 272.
    29. MacGregor, p. 215, 222 & 272.
    30. Barry 2001, p. 25.
    31. MacGregor 1969, p. 210, 215, 227 & 271.
    32. MacGregor 1969, p. 215, 219 & 273.
    33. MacGregor 1969, p. 205.
    34. http://www.westlockcounty.com/
    35. MacGregor 1969, p. 215.
    36. Hunt & 200-, p. 4.
    37. Hunt & 200-, p. 5.
    38. MacGregor 1969, p. 205, 215, 219, 221, 222 & 272.
    39. MacGregor 1969, p. 205 & 215.
    40. Luciuk and Kordan, map 21.
    41. MacGregor, p. 215, 219, 222 & 272; Luciuk and Kordan, map 17.
    42. MacGregor 1969, p. 157-158, 205 & 215.
    43. MacGregor 1969, p. 206, 215 & 272.
    44. Hunt & 200-, p. 21, 24-25.
    45. MacGregor 1969, p. 215, 231 & 272.
    46. MacGregor 1969, p. 197, 205 & 215.
    47. Hunt & 200-, p. 24-25, 35.
    48. Julia Parrish; David Ewasuk (February 20, 2013). "Efforts underway to stop planned burning of aging rural church". CTV Edmonton. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
    49. MacGregor, p. 206, 215 & 273; Luciuk and Kordan, map 19.
    50. MacGregor 1969, p. 206, 215, 222, 226 & 271.
    51. City of Edmonton (2004).
    52. MacGregor 1969, p. 7-23.
    53. City of Edmonton (2004); MacGregor, p. 259.
    54. MacGregor 1969, p. 13-18.
    55. Barry 2001, p. 43..
    56. Barry 2001, p. 34.
    57. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 27.
    58. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 42.
    59. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 24.
    60. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 41.
    61. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 19.
    62. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 29.
    63. Barry 2001, p. 45.
    64. Barry 2001, p. 141.
    65. Barry 2001, p. 39-40.
    66. Barry 2001, p. 14.
    67. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 26.
    68. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 16.
    69. Barry 2001, p. 20.
    70. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 93. [Editor's Note - "Heuboden" was the name of a "Russian" Mennonite village in Ukraine.]
    71. Barry 2001, p. 17.
    72. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 18.
    73. Barry 2001, p. 35.
    74. Barry 2001, p. 38.
    75. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 31.
    76. Barry 2001, p. 44.
    77. Barry 2001, p. 39.
    78. Another name for Adamiwka was Kolo Kamins'kykh, after the Kaminsky family (Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 28).
    79. Barry 2001, p. 28.
    80. Barry 2001, p. 11.
    81. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 21.
    82. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 15.
    83. Barry 2001, p. 57.
    84. Barry 1998, p. 196.
    85. "Tiaziv Church of St. Demetrius". Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
    86. Barry 2001, p. 40-41.
    87. Luciuk and Kordan, maps 4 & 16.
    88. Luciuk and Kordan, maps 16 & 17.
    89. Luciuk and Kordan, map 16.
    90. See also Museum of Folk Architecture and Folkways of Ukraine.
    91. Luciuk and Kordan, map 17.
    92. Luciuk and Kordan, map 19.
    93. Luciuk and Kordan, map 4.
    94. See also Galizien German Descendants.org

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    • Barry, Bill (2001). Ukrainian People Places. Regina, Saskatchewan: People Places Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-894022-65-3.
    • City of Edmonton (2004). Naming Edmonton : From Ada to Zoie. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press. ISBN 0-88864-423-X
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