Ukrainian Canadian Citizens’ League (Українсько-канадійський горожанський комітет; Ukrainsko-kanadiiskyi horozhanskyi komitet). A Ukrainian-Canadian organization founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in December 1918 to assist the cause of Ukraine’s independence by lobbying the Canadian government. It sent two delegates (Ivan Petrushevych and Osyp Megas) to the Paris Peace Conference. It also initiated the Ukrainian Red Cross society. Because of religious differences a rival Catholic Ukrainian National Council (Winnipeg) was formed, but in 1920 the two briefly merged into the Ukrainian Central Committee of Canada to represent the community nationally.

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