John N. Decore MP QC (born Ivan Dikur; April 9, 1909 – November 11, 1994) was a Canadian barrister, lawyer, teacher, and politician from Alberta.
[1] Decore was born Ivan Dikur on a farm 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Andrew, Alberta in a district called Sniatyn to Ukrainian immigrant parents Nykola and Hafia (née Kostiuk).
John help to lead work bees and the fundraising efforts during for a public pool so the children of men serving overseas would have recreational activity, and was the president of the Kinsmen Club, the chamber of commerce, and the council of the local Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and school board trustee where he promoted the hiring of Ukrainian-Canadian teachers.
He considered his "crowning achievement" in politics to be arranging for Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent to open the Ukrainian Pioneer Home monument at Elk Island National Park in 1951.
He also arranged for a concert of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus in the Railway Committee Room of Parliament and the creation of a Ukrainian-language service at Voice of Canada.
Decore attempted to return to federal politics in the 1962 election, this time in the Edmonton East electoral district, but he lost to Progressive Conservative (PC) incumbent William Skoreyko.