Jaroslav-Bohdan Antonovych Rudnyckyj[a] OC (Ukrainian: Ярослав-Богдан Антонович Рудницький, pronounced [jɐroˈslɑu̯ boɦˈdɑn rʊdˈnɪtsʲkɪj]; November 28, 1910[1] – October 19, 1995[1]) was a Ukrainian-Canadian linguist and lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics, folklorist, bibliographer, travel writer, and publicist.
[citation needed] With the historian, Dmytro Doroshenko and the literary scholar, Leonid Biletsky, he was a co-founder of the Canadian branch of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences [uk] which is located in Winnipeg.
[citation needed] The source collection titled Ukrainian-Canadian Folklore and Dialectological Texts was published in Ukrainian in several volumes beginning in 1956.
[7] The commission led to the promulgation of the new policy of "Multiculturalism" and the Official Languages Act by the federal government of Canada.
[citation needed] And also available at: https://www.academia.edu/38519781/J._B._Rudnyckyj_and_Canada.pdf Very brief biographical portrait, which includes a discussion of Rudnyckyj's philological interests and concentrates upon his impressions of the unique character of the Ukrainian language spoken in Canada in the 1940s and the 1950s.