Tymofiy Koreichuk (; c. 1879 – October, 1919) was a prominent peasant politician in Galicia and Bukovina (now Ukraine) who became an early Ukrainian Canadian labour leader.

Koreichuk was born in Kitsman county in Austria-Hungary. In young adulthood, he formed a local branch of the Sich Society, an organization that promoted physical education and national consciousness. He formed the Bukovynian section of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party. Under this party, he ran in the Bukovynian Diet in 1911.

Tymofei Koreichuk

Koreichuk emigrated to Canada, apparently, in the spring of 1913. He was one of the most experienced labour organizers in North America from Ukraine and quickly became active in the Federation of Ukrainian Social Democrats (FUSD) in Montreal, Quebec. When the FUSD renamed itself the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party of Canada (USDPC) and moved its headquarters to Winnipeg, Manitoba in January 1914, Koreichuk followed. While working with the USDPC in Western Canada in the spring of 1915, he was interned with other unnaturalized Ukrainian workers in the Crowsnest Pass.

Tymofei Koreichuk

On September 5, 1919, Koreichuck was arrested with making "seditious speeches". Still an unnaturalized Austro-Hungarian subject, he was sent to an internment camp in Vernon, British Columbia. After a few weeks, he died of tuberculosis.

Tymofei Koreichuk

See also

Ukrainian Canadian internment

References

External links

Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

1870s births

1919 deaths

20th-century deaths from tuberculosis

Canadian socialists

Trade unionists from Manitoba

Ukrainian politicians before 1991

Canadian socialists of Ukrainian descent

Ukrainian emigrants to Canada

People from Chernivtsi Oblast

Politicians from Austria-Hungary

Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to Canada

Prisoners who died in Canadian detention

Tuberculosis deaths in British Columbia

Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians

People from the Duchy of Bukovina