The first Coffee and Conversation of 2025 at the Prince Albert Historical Museum featured a talk by Dennis Ogrodnick on Sunday.
Ogrodnick combines two of his passions in life—being Ukrainian and education—in his presentations. The topic of the Coffee and Conversation was the six waves of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada.
Ogrodnick said he developed the talk in September at the request of the Veselka Club, who were hosting a day to celebrate Ukrainian immigration to Saskatchewan
“(They) asked me if I could speak as a history teacher on immigration to Canada,” Ogrodnick recalled. “I began the research and I put together a PowerPoint presentation that explains the six different waves of the Ukrainians coming to Canada and I focus a little bit on Saskatchewan.”
The six waves came from the late 1800s to the most recent wave, which was caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Included in the audience was a recent immigrant who came to Canada 2022.
