Martin Semchuk

Martin Semchuk (August 20, 1914 He also helped create Meadow Lake Provincial Park. Semchuk operated a grocery store in Meadow Lake. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Telephones, Minister of Public Health, Minister of Highways and Transportation and Minister of Industry and Commerce. Semchuk later worked with the Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources in Regina. In 1975, he retired to Kelowna, British Columbia. Semchuk died in Oliver, British Columbia at the age of 86.

Semchuk helped establish the first winter road to Uranium City during the 1950s. When a permanent road was established in 1980, it was named the Semchuk Trail in his honour.