Wanderley trebek biography of william

His work was influenced by his childhood on the prairies , his Ukrainian-Canadian roots, his struggles with mental illness, and his conversion to Roman Catholicism. His father, Dmytro Kurelek, was born in Boriwtsi , Bukovina. Her family had come with the first wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada and was also from Boriwtsi.

Dmytro and Mary were cousins. Dmytro arrived to work on the Huculak farm early in The couple married in the summer of , his mother not quite nineteen at the time. His family lost their grain farm during the Great Depression and moved to a six-hundred-acre former dairy farm near Stonewall, Manitoba , around Some of his paintings in the books A prairie boy's summer and A prairie boy's winter depict Kurelek and other children in the setting of the bogland.

When about to enter high school, their father announced that they would do so in Winnipeg, where he purchased a house on Burrows Ave. Weekends, food was brought in by their parents from the farm to help offset the cost of living in the city.

Trebek in the Hospital. Alex Trebek,

Eventually, their sister Winnie joined her brothers. Just around the corner from the house was St. Mary the Protectoress Ukrainian Orthodox church where he attended Ukrainian school, and found a very positive father figure in Rev. Kurelek graduated from high school in , and enrolled in the fall of that year in the Arts General Course at the University of Manitoba , graduating with his degree in May Despite this, he enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto.

His explanation to his father was that there was money to be made in commercial art.