ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Stanislav Vasylchuk is more than 6,000 kilometres from home, and he’s the only Ukrainian in the remote Newfoundland mining town of ...
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Stanislav Vasylchuk is more than 6,000 kilometres from home, and he’s the only Ukrainian in the remote Newfoundland mining town of Baie Verte, a community of about 1,300 people surrounded by scrubby northern woods and towering rocky slopes. There are no hip cafés where the 29-year-old engineer might meet people. There isn’t even a set of stoplights.
Vasylchuk was aboard the first of four planes chartered by the provincial government to transport displaced Ukrainians. It landed in St. John’s, N.L., late in the evening on May 9, 2022, its passengers greeted by a welcoming local crowd. More than 2,400 Ukrainians have since settled in more than 30 different communities in the province, according to the Association of New Canadians.
People in Baie Verte are still supporting him, he said. They helped him find a cheaper place to rent when he lost his job, and people in the mining industry helped him attend a conference in Gander, N.L., in late April so he could meet more peers and employers, he said. They’re also helping him get set up to obtain certification as an engineer in training.The smallness of his new community, Vasylchuk said, “is nothing I need to get used to.
Vasylchuk has a graduate degree and he’s qualified to work in several countries. He’s lived in big cities in Germany and the Czech Republic, but he said he prefers small communities.
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