Rudyk, Paul

Rudyk, Paul or Pavlo [Рудик, Павло], b 28 November 1878 in Leshniv, Brody county, Galicia, d 1 July 1936 in Edmonton, Alberta. Business and community leader. Rudyk emigrated to Canada in 1898 and opened a grocery store in Edmonton in 1902, reputedly the first Ukrainian-owned business in Canada. A developer and contractor, he helped organize the National Co-operative Company in Vegreville, Alberta, and the General Wholesale Company. He was among the first and largest shareholders in the Trident Press, a longtime member and secretary of the Hrushevsky Institute (now Saint John's Institute) in Edmonton, a founder of the newspaper Ukraïns’kyi holos in Winnipeg, and a supporter of the Presbyterian church.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]