Sylvia Olga Fedoruk, (Ukrainian: Федорук), O.C., S.O.M. was a Canadian physicist, medical physicist, curler and the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.
She was born in Canora, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants Annie Romaniuk and Theodore Fedoruk. She attended a one room schoolhouse in Wroxton north east of the city of Yorkton, where her father was her teacher.
During World War II, the family relocated to Ontario where her parents took war factory work. In 1946, she completed her studies at Walkerville Collegiate in Windsor Ontario. She obtained her B.A. (Great Distinction) 1949 for which she also received the Governor General's Gold Medal; B.A. (High Honours in Physics) 1950; and M.A. 1951 from the University of Saskatchewan.[1]
She was recruited by Dr. Harold E. Johns to be the radiation physicist at Saskatoon Cancer Clinic, and became the chief medical physicist at the Saskatoon Cancer Clinic and director of physics services at the Saskatchewan Cancer Clinic. She was a professor of oncology and associate member in physics at the University of Saskatchewan. She was involved in the development of the world's first cobalt-60 unit and one of the first nuclear medicine scanning machines.
She was the first woman member of the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada.
From 1986 to 1989 she was chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, the first woman to fill this position.
In 1986, she was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame and was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. In 1987, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She also received the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal. [2]
From 1988 to 1994, she was Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.
In 2009, she was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Honours and Awards
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal (1977)
Officer, Order of Canada (1986)
Saskatchewan Order of Merit (1986)
Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Windsor (1987)
Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Saskatchewan (2006)
Inductee, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (2009)
Inductee, Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame (2013) [3]
↑ Ex-lieutenant-governor a cancer-care pioneer, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ont., 28 Sept 2012, page S8
↑ "Sylvia Olga Fedoruk". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 20 March 2023, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sylvia-olga-fedoruk. Accessed 27 September 2023.
See Also:
1931 Census: "1931 Census of Canada" Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Seventh Census of Canada, 1931; Folder Number: T-27346; Census Place: Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada; Page Number: s Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 62640 #5591673 (accessed 27 September 2023) Syllia Fedoruk (4), single daughter, in household of Theodore Fedoruk (33) in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1947 School Yearbook: "Canada, Selected School Yearbooks, 1901-2010" "Canada, Selected School Yearbooks, 1908-2010"; School: University of Saskatchewan; Year: 1947 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 60576 #2109458 (accessed 27 September 2023) Name: Sylvia Fedoruk; Yearbook Date: 1947; School: University of Saskatchewan; School Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Yearbook Title: Greystone.
Electoral Register: "Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980" Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Voters Lists, Federal Elections, 1935-1980; Reference Number: M-4916 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 2983 #8378742 (accessed 27 September 2023) Name: Sylvia Fedoruk; Residence Date: 1953; Residence Place: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Electoral District: Saskatoon; Occupation: Physicist.
"Brasil, São Paulo, Cartões de Imigração, 1902-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVMX-189J : 16 February 2023), Sylvia Olga Fedoruk, 1964; citing Immigration, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, certificate , registration , Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo State Public Archives), Brazil.
Electoral Register: "Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980" Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Voters Lists, Federal Elections, 1935-1980; Reference Number: M-6295 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 2983 #85396655 (accessed 27 September 2023) Name: Sylvia Fedoruk; Residence Date: 1974; Residence Place: Saskatoon; Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada; Electoral District: Saskatoon-Humboldt; Occupation: Physicist.
Residence: "Saskatchewan, Canada, Residents Index (SRI), 1800-2012" Original data: The Saskatchewan Residents Index (SRI). Database. Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Click here to request a copy of the record via the SGS’s research services Ancestry ca Record 8953 #2031794 (accessed 27 September 2023) Name: Sylvia Fedoruk; Residence Date: 1989; Residence Place: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; Description: resided.
Find a Grave, database and images, memorial page for Sylvia Olga “Syl” Fedoruk (5 May 1927–26 Sep 2012), Find A Grave: Memorial #142981641, citing Yorkton City Cemetery, Yorkton, Yorkton Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; Maintained by Tracy Anne (contributor 47809886).
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