List of Canadian place names of Ukrainian origin

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.

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.

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

Saskatchewan

One-room schools

Rural communities

Rural roads

Schools

Manitoba

Rural communities

Ontario

Rural communities

See also

References

  1. Sanders, p. 48.
  2. MacGregor, p. 206.
  3. MacGregor, p. 206, 215, 244 & 266; Luciuk and Kordan, maps 17 & 19.
  4. 4.0 4.1 MacGregor, p. 206 & 215.
  5. Sanders, p. 322; MacGregor, p. 154.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 MacGregor, p. 211, 215 & 272.
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 MacGregor, p. 215 & 272.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 MacGregor, p. 215 & 274.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 9.10 9.11 9.12 MacGregor, p. 215 & 273.
  10. MacGregor, p. 215, 222 & 273.
  11. MacGregor, p. 215, 228-29 & 271.
  12. MacGregor, 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, p. 215, 231 & 273.
  15. MacGregor, p. 215, 222, 227 & 272.
  16. MacGregor, p. 215, 226 & 272; Luciuk and Kordan, map 21.
  17. MacGregor, p. 206, 215 & 273.
  18. 18.0 18.1 MacGregor p. 215, 231 & 273.
  19. MacGregor p. 215, 226 & 272.
  20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/cihm_30425
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 MacGregor, p. 75.
  22. 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 MacGregor, p. 75-76.
  23. 23.0 23.1 MacGregor, p. 211, 215, 226 & 272.
  24. 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 24.6 24.7 24.8 24.9 24.10 24.11 24.12 24.13 see "Operation Vistula".
  25. MacGregor, p. 215, 226, 231 & 273.
  26. MacGregor, p. 157-158, 215 & 271.
  27. MacGregor, p. 215, 219, 222 & 272.
  28. MacGregor, p. 215, 231 & 272.
  29. MacGregor, p. 211, 215, 231 & 272.
  30. 30.0 30.1 MacGregor, p. 215, 222 & 272.
  31. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 25.
  32. MacGregor, p. 210, 215, 227 & 271.
  33. MacGregor, p. 215, 219 & 273.
  34. MacGregor, p. 205.
  35. http://www.westlockcounty.com/
  36. MacGregor, p. 215.
  37. Hunt, p. 4.
  38. Hunt, p. 5.
  39. MacGregor, p. 205, 215, 219, 221, 222 & 272.
  40. MacGregor, p. 205 & 215.
  41. Luciuk and Kordan, map 21.
  42. MacGregor, p. 215, 219, 222 & 272; Luciuk and Kordan, map 17.
  43. MacGregor, p. 157-158, 205 & 215.
  44. MacGregor, p. 206, 215 & 272.
  45. Hunt, p. 21, 24-25.
  46. MacGregor, p. 197, 205 & 215.
  47. Hunt, 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, p. 206, 215, 222, 226 & 271.
  51. 51.0 51.1 51.2 51.3 51.4 51.5 City of Edmonton (2004).
  52. MacGregor, p. 7-23.
  53. City of Edmonton (2004); MacGregor, p. 259.
  54. MacGregor, p. 13-18.
  55. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 43.
  56. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 34.
  57. 57.0 57.1 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 27.
  58. 58.0 58.1 58.2 58.3 58.4 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 42.
  59. 59.0 59.1 59.2 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 24.
  60. 60.0 60.1 60.2 60.3 60.4 60.5 60.6 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 41.
  61. 61.0 61.1 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 19.
  62. 62.0 62.1 62.2 62.3 62.4 62.5 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 29.
  63. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 45.
  64. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 141.
  65. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 39-40.
  66. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 14.
  67. 67.0 67.1 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 26.
  68. 68.0 68.1 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 16.
  69. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", 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, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 17.
  72. 72.0 72.1 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 18.
  73. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 35.
  74. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 38.
  75. 75.0 75.1 75.2 75.3 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 31.
  76. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 44.
  77. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 39.
  78. Another name for Adamiwka was Kolo Kamins'kykh, after the Kaminsky family (Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 28).
  79. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 28.
  80. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 11.
  81. 81.0 81.1 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 21.
  82. 82.0 82.1 Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 15.
  83. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", p. 57.
  84. Barry, "People Places", p. 196.
  85. Tiaziv Church of St. Demetrius
  86. Barry, "Ukrainian People Places", 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. 91.0 91.1 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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