Megas, Osyp or Joseph [Меґас, Осип], b 1882 in Galicia, d 8 September 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta. Physician, educator, journalist, and community leader. After emigrating to Canada in 1905, Megas was appointed ‘supervisor of Ruthenian schools’ by the government of Saskatchewan (1907–17), and helped organize the Training School for Teachers for Foreign Speaking Communities in Regina in 1909. He served as editor of Kanadiis’kyi farmer (1906–8) and helped establish the pro–Liberal party paper Novyi krai in Rosthern, Saskatchewan (1910–13). In 1916 he was among the founders of the Mohyla Ukrainian Institute in Saskatoon, and in 1919 he was a delegate from the Ukrainian Canadian Citizens’ League to the Paris Peace Conference. After visiting Galicia he published his impressions in Tragedia halyts'koï Ukraïny (The Tragedy of Galician Ukraine, 1920). Following studies at the universities of Manitoba and Alberta (MD, 1926) he established a medical practice in Edmonton (1926).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]