Who We Are

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) represents the Ukrainian Canadian community before the people and Government of Canada, promotes linkages with Ukraine, and identifies and addresses the needs of the Ukrainian community in Canada to ensure its continued development within Canada’s socio-cultural fabric.

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Toronto Branch (UCC-Toronto) has 73 member organizations that represent our community across a wide spectrum of demographics and interests. These organizations are separate entities with their own members and are represented within UCC-Toronto via their member representatives who elect the Board of the UCC-Toronto.

There are currently over 1.2 million Canadians of Ukrainian background living in Canada, over 100,000 living in the City of Toronto and many more residing in the surrounding Greater Toronto Area.

Board of Directors

Our Board for the 2026-2028 term is pictured here. 

1st row: Sitting from left to right: Marijka Stadnyk, Lesia Bonk, Marta Huta, Lily Hordienko, Petro Schturyn (Past President), Markian Shwec (President), Lesia Zelyk, Ivanka Tymchuk, Lesya Winnicki, Nadia Prokopiw.

2nd Row: Standing from left to right: Andrew Shwec, Emilia Stelmach, Lyubov Slavatynska, Yuliya Korchyna, Andrij Demusz, Nataliya Halych, Bohdan Hrytsak, Lidiia Karpenko, Luba Tarapacky, Taras Antoniw, Maria Antoniv, Roman Loza, Maryna Zadorozhna, Oleksiy Slyepukhov, Nadia Sydorenko (office administrator), Javier Aponiuk-Sawicz.

Not present: Orest Kobylansky, Cassandra Prokopiw (Audit Committee), Orest Haluszka (Audit Committee), Andrij Tarapackyj (Audit Committee).

UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS – TORONTO BRANCH

Board of Directors

2026-2028
MEMBERS of the EXECUTIVE

Shwec, Markian

President

Schturyn, Peter

Past President

Waschuk, Tania

VP, Internal Relations

Hordienko, Lily

VP, External Relations

Tymchuk, Ivanka

VP, Administration

Zelyk, Lesia

VP, Finance

MEMBERS

Antoniw, Taras

Director

Aponiuk-Sawicz, Javier

Director

Halych, Nataliya

Recording Secretary

Huta, Marta

Holodomor Commemoration

Kobylansky, Orest

Director

Loza, Roman

Director

Prokopiw, Nadia

Director

Shwec, Andrew

Director

Slavatynska, Lyubov

Member Organization Liaison

Stelmach, Emilia

Director

Slyepukhov, Oleksiy

Social Media & Communication

Tarapacky, Luba

Special Events

Winnicki, Lesya

Remembrance Day

Zadorozhna, Maryna

Director

Antoniv, Maria

Hrytsak, Bohdan

Demusz, Andrij

Karpenko, Lidia

Korchyna, Yuliya

Stadnyk, Marijka

AUDIT COMMITTEE

Woloshyn, Danylo

Alternate

Prokopiw, Cassandra

Chair

Tarapackyj, Andrij

Haluszka, Orest

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Kuryliw, Valentina

Holodomor Education

Markson, Alicia

Media

Bonk, Roman

Fundraising

Horbal, Paul

Governance

Sunak, Tatiana

Ukrainian Canadian School Board

Aims & Objectives

The Board is supported by its member organizations and the community in its efforts to achieve the following goals and objectives:

  1. 1.

    To represent the Ukrainian Canadian Community in the Greater Toronto Area and all surrounding municipalities where no branch of the UCC exists to serve the needs of the Ukrainian Canadian Community.

  2. 2.

    To strengthen and co-ordinate the participation of Ukrainian Canadians in Canadian social and cultural life, based on democratic principles of justice, freedom and independence.

  3. 3.

    To promote the development of friendly and mutually beneficial relations between Canada and Ukraine.

  4. 4.

    To assist Ukraine in building an independent, united, and democratic state.

  5. 5.

    To plan and develop among Ukrainian Canadians sound community life in all its aspects.

  6. 6.

    To maintain, develop and enhance the Ukrainian culture and language as integral elements of the Canadian multicultural mosaic.

  7. 7.

    To carry on and assist in efforts for the improvement of the social, economic and cultural conditions of Ukrainian Canadians, and to cooperate with other agencies in rendering assistance to Ukrainian Canadian elderly, disadvantaged, youth, and Ukrainian immigrants, and refugees.

  8. 8.

    To promote the growth of a spirit of tolerance, understanding and goodwill between all segments of society within a multicultural Canada.