This First Person article is the experience of Andriy Tovstiuk who is a Ukrainian Canadian veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
Growing up in Edmonton, I used to dread Saturday mornings. At a time when my “Canadian” friends were either still sleeping or catching morning cartoons, I was at Ukrainian Saturday school. Episodes of Recess and Futurama were replaced with classes on Ukrainian language, literature, history and geography.
I may not have realized it at the time, but these were the moments that planted the seeds for my appreciation
