Sylvia Fedoruk
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The Honourable Sylvia Fedoruk OC SOM |
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Former Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, the Honourable Sylvia Fedoruk wearing the Order of Canada
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| 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan | |
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In office September 7, 1988 – May 31, 1994 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General |
Jeanne Sauvé Ray Hnatyshyn |
| Premier |
Grant Devine Roy Romanow |
| Preceded by | Frederick Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Jack Wiebe |
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| Born |
May 5, 1927 Canora, Saskatchewan |
| Died |
September 26, 2012 (aged 85) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Saskatchewan |
| Occupation |
Medical physicist, Physicist, Curler |
Sylvia Olga Fedoruk [Fe-doruk], (Ukrainian: Федорук), OC SOM (May 5, 1927 – September 26, 2012) was a Canadian physicist, medical physicist, curler and the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.
Born in Canora, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, Annie Romaniuk and Theodore Fedoruk. Fedoruk attended a one room schoolhouse in Wroxton north east of the city of Yorkton. Her father was her teacher.
During World War II, the family relocated to Ontario where her parents took war factory work. In 1946, she completed her studies at Walkerville Collegiate in Windsor Ontario, at the top of her class and was awarded the Ernest J. Creed Memorial Medal and an entrance scholarship to attend University. But the family chose to return to Saskatchewan where Sylvia entered the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon in the fall of 1946.
She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics, at the University of Saskatchewan, in 1949 and was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal. Fedoruk completed her M.A. in physics in 1951.
Fedoruk was recruited by Dr. Harold E. Johns to be the radiation physicist at Saskatoon Cancer Clinic. She became the chief medical physicist at the Saskatoon Cancer Clinic and director of physics services at the Saskatchewan Cancer Clinic. She was a professor of oncology and associate member in physics at the University of Saskatchewan. She was involved in the development of the world's first cobalt-60 unit and one of the first nuclear medicine scanning machines.
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