Nicholas Apoluner Hryhorczuk (December 17, 1888 — November 23, 1979) was a politician in Manitoba

Manitoba

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, Canada

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. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the lieutenant governor form the Legislature of Manitoba, the legislature of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Fifty-seven members are elected to this assembly in provincial general elections, all in single-member constituencies with first-past-the-post...

 from 1920 to 1936, and again from 1941 to 1945.

Born in Ukraine

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, Hryhorczuk came to Canada with his family in 1897. He was educated at Kolomyja Public School. He worked as a merchant, and was a member of the Canadian Foresters. From 1917 to 1919, he served as reeve of Ethelbert

Ethelbert, Manitoba

Ethelbert is a village that is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Ethelbert in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is 370 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg and 60 kilometres north of Dauphin, Manitoba. The village is located not far from Duck Mountain Provincial Park on PTH 10...

 municipality.

Hryhorczuk was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1920 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1920

Manitoba's general election of 29 June 1920 was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.-Background:...

. Running as an "Independent Farmer", he was easily elected in the Ethelbert constituency. In the 1922 election

Manitoba general election, 1922

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, he was nominated as a candidate of the United Farmers of Manitoba (UFM) and was re-elected without opposition in a deferred election.

The UFM won the 1922 election, and formed government as the Progressive Party of Manitoba

Progressive Party of Manitoba

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. Hyrhorczuk rallied support for John Bracken

John Bracken

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 to serve as Premier of Manitoba

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, and later became a backbench supporter of Bracken's government. He was re-elected in the provincial elections of 1927

Manitoba general election, 1927

Manitoba's general election of 28 June 1927 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This was the first election in Manitoba history to elect members through a single transferable ballot in all constituencies...

 and 1932

Manitoba general election, 1932

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Prior to the 1932 election, the Progressive Party formed an alliance with the Manitoba Liberal Party

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. This alliance soon took the form of a merger, and government members became known as "Liberal-Progressives".

Hryhorczuk was unexpectedly defeated in the 1936 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1936

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 by William Lisowsky

William Lisowsky

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, a candidate of the Manitoba Social Credit League. Lisowsky did not seek re-election in the 1941 election

Manitoba general election, 1941

Manitoba's general election of April 22, 1941 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This election was held shortly after the formation of a coalition government in December 1940...

, however, and Hryhorczuk was narrowly returned over Fred Zaplitny

Fred Zaplitny

Frederick Samuel Zaplitny was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Dauphin in the Canadian House of Commons from 1945 to 1949, and from 1953 to 1958...

 of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).

In the 1945 provincial election

Manitoba general election, 1945

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, CCF candidate Michael Sawchuk

Michael Sawchuk

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 defeated Hryhorczuk by 338 votes. This ended Hryhorczuk's career in politics. His son, Michael N. Hryhorczuk, later served in the legislature from 1949 to 1966.

The elder Hryhorczuk survived his son by one year, dying in 1979 at age 90.