In the May 8 article headlined “Veteran who helped bring 30,000 Ukrainian refugees to Canada to be honored in the U.K.,” Paul Waldie, Europe correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, writes about Bohdan Panchuk and the Ukrainian Canadian Servicemen’s Association, an organization he co-founded at the time of World War II.
“… the former schoolteacher from Saskatchewan, who enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1939 and landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in 1944, became a key figure in helping more than 30,000 Ukrainian refugees come to Canada after the war,” Mr. Waldie informed readers.