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Judge Jaroslaw W Arsenych

He immigrated to Canada in 1904. Attended the Ruthenian Training School in Brandon, Manitoba, and became a school teacher in 1908. Married Olga LUCZKOVETZ on May 23, 1914 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He taught school in Manitoba and Saskatchewan until 1913 at which time he entered law school.

In 1917 Jaroslaw Arsenych became the first Ukrainian lawyer in Canada, was appointed to Kings Councel in 1935 and became a district court judge in Dauphin, Manitoba in 1947. All firsts among Ukrainians in Canada.

Jaroslaw Arsenych devoted his life to the development and promotion of Ukrainian language, culture, religious and organizational life in Canada. He was one of the founders of the Trident Press which published the Ukrainian Voice, and still does, becoming its first president. A post he held for thirty-four years.

He was the first rector of the Adam Kotsko Institute in Winnipeg and during the First World War was head of the Ukrainian Canadian Citizens Committee, General Secretary of the Ukrainian Red Cross of Canada, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian National Home Association and secretary of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress representing the Ukrainian Self-Reliance League.

He helped establish the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada and was a member of the Presidium of the Consistory during the consummation of the Church Hierarchy and was one of the organizers of the Ukrainian Self-Reliance League of Canada in 1927.