Sam Uskiw

Samuel Uskiw (October 18, 1933 and political fundraiser in Manitoba, Canada. Subsequently, he left the New Democrats and became a fundraiser for their leading rival, the Progressive Conservative Party.

After completing his education, Uskiw worked in Winnipeg briefly before moving to Ontario where he worked on a farm in Ingersoll and then worked for the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway. He returned to Manitoba in 1953, working as a potato farmer and meat cutter as well as selling insurance before entering political life, from July 15, 1969, to October 24, 1977, the entirety of Schreyer's tenure in office. He also served as Minister of Cooperative Development from May 6, 1971, to December 23, 1974. He did not seek a return to active politics after 1986. In the 1990s, he chaired a commission overseeing changes to the province's Personal Injury Protection Plan.

Uskiw died in hospital in Selkirk at the age of 77 after a lengthy battle with colon cancer.