Anthony Hlynka
| Anthony Hlynka | |
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| Member of Parliament for Vegreville | |
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In office 1940–1949 |
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| Preceded by | William Hayhurst |
| Succeeded by | John Decore |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 28, 1907 Denysiv, Ternopil Oblast, Halychyna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | April 25, 1957 (aged 49) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Political party | Social Credit Party of Canada |
| Occupation | Journalist, publisher |
Anthony Hlynka (May 28, 1907 – April 25, 1957) was a Canadian journalist, publisher, immigration activist and politician. He represented Vegreville in the Canadian House of Commons from 1940 to 1949, as a member of the Social Credit Party of Canada. He is most best known for his attempts to reform Canada's immigration laws after World War II to permit the immigration of Ukrainian displaced persons.
Hlynka was born in the Western Ukrainian village of Denysiv, in the Ternopil Oblast of Halychyna, then a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He moved to Canada with his family in 1910, and was raised in a homesteader community in Alberta's Delph district, about 18 miles northeast of Lamont. He was educated in both Ukrainian and English.
Hlynka moved to Edmonton in 1922 and graduated from Alberta College the following year, but was unable to attend university. He taught English to other Ukrainian immigrants, and worked at an insurance firm from 1929 to 1931. He also wrote for the paper Novyi shliakh (New Pathway), and was elected to its executive in November 1931. He was responsible for soliciting advertisements for the paper, until it was moved to Saskatoon in 1933.
Hlynka was a founding member of the conservative Ukrainian National Federation of Canada (UNF) in 1932 and served for a time as its acting General Secretary. He started a periodical called Klych (The Call) in 1935. This paper had a strongly anti-communist editorial line. Hlynka joined the Alberta Social Credit League in 1937, and launched the party's Ukrainian language paper, Suspilnyi Kredyt (Social Credit), in February of that year. He later worked for the publicity department of the provincial Social Credit Board, and for the Department of Municipal Affairs. He delivered several speeches, and became known as prominent figure within the Ukrainian community. He considered running for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the buildup to the 1940 provincial election, but ultimately declined.
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