Nicholas Stryk

Nicholas John Stryk (December 17, 1896

Stryk was born to John Stryk and Katherine Steslimb in Austria-Hungary, and came to Canada in 1899. He was educated in Manitoba, and worked as a school teacher in Ladywood for twenty-six years. He was fluent in both English and Ukrainian. In 1921, he became a Notary Public and Commissioner.

He sought election to the House of Commons of Canada in the federal election of 1935 as a Liberal-Progressive, but finished third in Springfield against official Liberal candidate John Mouat Turner.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1941 provincial election, defeating CCF incumbent Herbert Sulkers Stryk was in an ambulance on its way to Beausejour at the time of his death. He had been married to Elizabeth Neyedly just two months earlier.