Association of United Ukrainian Canadians Edmonton

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About Association of United Ukrainian Canadians Edmonton

The Association of United Ukrainian Canadians is a progressive organization with strong and durable roots in the people and history of Canada. The Association and its community, from the tum of the century, constitute the progressive wing of the Ukrainian ethnic group in the population. They are the offspring and heir to those beginnings that grew out of the early formative years of community development and the struggle to survive. What began as an organization and community of immigrant labour, typical of its time, is an Association today with a broad popular base and contemporary democratic goals in a changing social culture and lifestyle. The Association and its predecessors have always been committed to change and progress in the interests of the people. This commitment remains as a trust and a duty.

The Association embodied the dream that brought countless thousands to this country with the future in their eyes. They came here as builders, to the frontiers of nation building and they helped to transform this land and their own lives in the process. The Association has a vested interest in peace on that road to the future.

Generations of those born to the pioneers and their children found “a home away from home" in the network of halls across the land. These were places to grow, learn and to acquire and enjoy the precious heritage of their birthright. The new generations deserve no less.

The Association and its predecessors always sought to establish and maintain creative contacts and living ties with the ancestral homeland and the mother root of Ukrainian culture.

The Association has always promoted tourism and cultural exchange as a means of strengthening ties and building bridges of friendship and peace between peoples of one historic family. The future of a new and expanding culture depends upon continued nourishment from the mother root. The Association has evolved through a number of organizational stages due to conditions and climate of the time. It came on the scene as the Ukrainian Labour Temple Association (1918-1924); followed by the Ukrainian Labour- Farmer Temple Association (1925-1946); the Ukrainian Association to Aid the Fatherland (1941-1942); the Association of Ukrainian Canadians (1942-1946); and ﬁnally, the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (1946).

The mission of AUUC Edmonton Branch 2 is to provide support for Ukrainian Culture