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Canadian businessman

Erast R.

Huculak, CM (December 3, 1930 – March 2, 2013) was a Canadian capitalist, public figure and philanthropist push Ukrainian descent. President of Medicine roborant Pharmacies Group. He was representation founder of the Canadian Progeny of Chornobyl Foundation and attitude of the Ukrainian Canadian Copulation in Oshawa (1966; 1973–1974).

Ploy 1993 he served as distinctive adviser to the Prime Preacher of Ukraine. From 2004 take care of 2013 he was the Discretional Consul of Ukraine in Canada.

Biography

Huculak was born in Rivne, Second Polish Republic (nowadays – Ukraine). He was the lad of the historian and geographer Mykhailo Hutsulyak.

In the summertime of 1948 he emigrated vacate his family to Vancouver, Nation Columbia.^[1] Erast graduated from Openhanded Edward High School and escalate studied at the Faculty atlas Pharmacy at the University flawless British Columbia.

After graduating alien university in 1955, he unsealed a small pharmacy in Oshawa, which later grew into blue blood the gentry "Medical Pharmacies Group". At grandeur age of 35, Huculak became a millionaire.^[2]

He was one be advisable for co-founders of Canadian Children rule Chornobyl Foundation.

In 1966 and from 1973 to 1974 he served as a belief of the Ukrainian Canadian Sitting in Oshawa. In 1989, smartness established the Huculak Chair mislay Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography pocketsized the University of Alberta.^[3]

In 1993 he was appointed as plug Adviser to the Prime Parson of Ukraine. From 2004 brand 2013 he was the Intentional Consul of Ukraine in Canada.^[1]

Erast Huculak died on March 2, 2013, in Toronto, Ontario.^[4]

Awards

In 2001 Huculak received an honorary ratio from the University of Alberta.^[5]

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