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National Geographic : 1979 May
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OMETOWN LOVE led to the altar for John and Kristy Charles (left) in the northern community of La Ronge, a commercial center for 18 nearby Indi an reserves. Ukrainian folk dancer Lesia Fedeyko (right) gets a hug from John Rozdilsky, who aspires to be a lawyer, at a friend's wedding. Rozdilsky's parents reached Sas katchewan after World War II in the third and most recent wave of immigration from the Ukraine; the first came around the turn of the century, the second in the years fol lowing the Bolshevik Revolution and the First World War. Ukrainians today occu py a solid position in Saskatchewan's mid dle and professional classes. Conjugal prospects were less bright in the province's early days, when one of the settlers' most pressing concerns was a dire shortage of women. These bachelors evi dently hoped that advertising might aid their cause (below). The People Who Made Saskatchewan 663
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