EDMONTON, Alberta – A large and enthusiastic crowd gathered on the evening of Wednesday, March 14, at St. John’s Cultural Centre, Edmonton, to hear Jars Balan give the 2018 Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture on the topic “An Unorthodox History of the 1918 Founding of the Ukrainian (Greek) Orthodox Church in Canada.”
Jars Balan is the director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), and the administrative coordinator of the Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Center at CIUS. He has written extensively on the history of Ukrainians in Canada, and has a special interest in Ukrainian Canadian literature, theater and church history.