Myroslaw Stechishin

Myroslaw Stechishin (Ukrainian: Мирослав Стечишин, July 24, 1883 – November 18, 1947) was a Ukrainian-Canadian editor, political activist, and public figure.

[2] He arrived initially in Winnipeg, Manitoba before spending his first summer in Canada as a seasonal worker with the Canadian Pacific Railway in Pilot Butte, Saskatchewan.

[1][5] While there, Stechishin gained the knowledge and inspiration to later write the short story "Pilot Butte," named for the town, which tells the difficult story of a young Ukrainian immigrant named Pavlo who found work as a labourer at the Pilot Butte CPR station.

[3] Having then moved to California in 1903, Stechishin spent time in Caspar and at Agapius Honcharenko's commune near Hayward.

Alongside Pavlo Krat, Toma Tomashevsky, and Wasyl Holowacky, he became a leader of the Ukrainian socialist movement in pre-war Canada.

[2] In 1920, he was the secretary of a diplomatic mission of the partially-recognized Ukrainian People's Republic to the United States capitol, Washington D.C.[1][2] From 1921 to 1947, he was the editor of Ukraïns’kyi holos, again in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[12] He, again with his brothers, was involved with what became St. Andrew's College, Manitoba, which was founded in 1946, and he also served on the consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada.

Stechishin (left) and Matthew Popovich in the Robochyi narod office in Winnipeg
Stechishin brothers (Myroslaw on the right), 1922