Bookstores Still Thrive -- Although One Is in a Museum
Rollason, Kevin, Winnipeg Free Press
For many generations of Ukrainian immigrants in Winnipeg, North End bookstores and reading halls were lifelines to the homeland.
Decades later, those reading halls are long gone, but two bookstores still exist: Kalyna Ukrainian Book Shop, which is still a going concern on Main Street, and Ukrainian Book Sellers, which has found new life in a museum in Ottawa.
Kalyna Ukrainian Book Shop, a Ukrainian co-operative, has served Ukrainians for more than 81 years at 952 Main St.
Two years after the Ukrainian Veterans' Association was founded in 1928, the organization announced it was opening the bookstore to serve as the Canadian representative and distributor of the …
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Article title: Bookstores Still Thrive -- Although One Is in a Museum.
Contributors: Rollason, Kevin - Author.
Newspaper title: Winnipeg Free Press.
Publication date: June 23, 2012.
Page number: J4.
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