About the League of Ukrainian Canadians and the League of Ukrainian Canadian Women

Aims and goals

The League of Ukrainian Canadians (LUC) and League of Ukrainian Canadian Women (LUCW) are not-for-profit community organizations, whose aims and goals are to help develop a strong and united Ukrainian Canadian community, as well as civil society and democracy in Ukraine.

Key activities of LUC and LUCW include:

• Foster integration into Canadian society;
• Resisting the pressures of assimilation by nurturing Ukrainian identity in Canada through educational and cultural endeavours;
• Actively engaging the Ukrainian Canadian community in Canada’s political life;
• Facilitating the rebirth of Ukraine’s historical memory and the preservation of Ukrainian Canadian identity;
• Increasing awareness and the positive image of Ukraine in Canada;
• Engaging Ukrainian Canadian families in community life through social activities;
• Assisting the citizens of Ukraine through humanitarian aid;
• Developing partnerships with like-minded organizations in order to facilitate the development of civil society in Ukraine.

• The Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine or CLLU (today the League of Ukrainian Canadians) was founded in Toronto in 1949.  Since its inception, the CLLU’s goal was to build bridges to organizations with similar aims and goals, to facilitate Ukraine’s path to independence, and to develop and expand the life of the Ukrainian community in Canada and the diaspora as a whole.
• At first, the National Executive of the CLLU included a women’s representative, but in December 1955, on the basis of a well-developed network of women’s representations, the Women’s Association of the CLLU was founded with its own procedures and by-laws, and its own executive.   
• The Women’s Association began its history alongside the CLLU and was guided by the same principles, aims and goals.  Additionally, however, it also addressed the social, charitable and cultural-educational needs of the community.
• Activities of both the CLLU and the Women’s Association, especially in the internal Ukrainian political, social, educational and cultural areas, focused on the preservation and development of Ukrainian identity among their members and the Ukrainian community in general.
• At the same time, the CLLU and the Women’s Association were engaged in external political activity. Throughout their existence, they initiated or actively participated in hundreds if not thousands of important political events at the national level with the aim of informing Canadian public opinion regarding Ukraine.
• With the renewal of Ukraine’s independence in 1991, a new period of the Leagues’ activities began and the Leagues adopted their new names as the League of Ukrainian Canadians and the League of Ukrainian Canadian Women.  

• There are currently 11 branches of the LUC and 5 branches of the LUCW in Canada.
• LUC is a long-time active member of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) and the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), and the LUCW actively participates in the National Women’s Council of Canada, the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, and in the Ukrainian World Congress.
• The LUC and LUCW are headed by national executives based in

      Toronto. Executive members are elected for three-year terms at Triennial

      Conventions.  Annual General Meetings are held regularly, as are regional

      Conferences and meetings, to update members on the status of projects,

      discuss ongoing and emerging issues, and provide guidelines for future

      activities.                                 

The broad programmes and guidelines of the LUC and LUCW include:

• Facilitation of Ukraine’s renaissance through collective historical memory;
• Facilitation of close government-to-government and people-to-people ties between Canada and Ukraine;
• Defense of human rights and the development of civil society and democratic institutions in Ukraine;
• Defense of civil and human rights of Ukrainians in the diaspora;
• Development of the Holodomor Education Project to facilitate the worldwide recognition of the Holodomor in Ukraine,1932-33, as an act of Genocide against the Ukrainian nation;
• Assistance to humanitarian organizations, youth organizations, and ideologically like-minded organizations in Ukraine;
• Humanitarian, non-lethal assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces through the Friends of Ukraine Defence Forces program;
• Publication of informational and educational materials;
• Preservation and promotion of Ukrainian traditions through cultural activities;
• Commemoration of events and annual dates of religious and historical significance;
• Organization of and participation in social and recreational activities.

 In October 2018 was approved LUC and LUCW Principal Tasks.

Any Ukrainian Canadian who shares our beliefs and values, has reached the age of 18, and resides in Canada can become a member of the LUC or LUCW.

We invite interested Ukrainian Canadians to obtain more information about the Leagues by contacting us, and to eventually become LUC and LUCW members who take an active part in the life of the Ukrainian Canadian community.

Please visit our Leagues’ website www.lucorg.com and call or write us at:

9 Plastics Avenue

Toronto, Ontario

Canada  M8Z 4B6

416-516-8223; [email protected]
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