Syrnyk, Ivan

Syrnyk, Ivan or Syrnick [Сирник, Іван], John, b 4 May 1904 in Ethelbert, Manitoba, d 21 May 1972 in Winnipeg. Editor and community leader. A school teacher in interwar rural Manitoba, Syrnyk became rector of the Mohyla Ukrainian Institute in Saskatoon in 1943–7 and was a longtime editor of Ukraïns’kyi holos in Winnipeg (1947–70). He was active in the Ukrainian Self-Reliance League (SUS), the consistory of the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada, the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (now Ukrainian Canadian Congress), the Pan-American Ukrainian Conference, and the World Congress of Free Ukrainians.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]