Turek, Victor

found: Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba. Papers read before the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba. Series III, number 9, 1954page [2] (H. Douglas Kemp)

found: Manitoba Historical Society, WWW site, viewed April 18, 2013(Victor Turek, 1910-1963; Born at Kolbuszowa, Poland on 15 June 1910, he was educated at the Casimir Morawski Gymnasium in Przemysl and the University of Lwow, from which he graduated in 1932 with the degree of Master of Laws. In 1934 he was appointed Assistant Professor of International Private Law at the University of Lwow and served until 1940. From 1943 to 1946, he served with the Polish Armed Forces in the Middle East as a public relations officer, then joined the staff of the International Refugee Organization in Lebanon. In 1950, he and his family emigrated to Canada and settled in Winnipeg where he edited a local Polish weekly and later worked as a research fellow for the Manitoba Historical Society. In 1954, he enrolled at the University of Toronto Library School and later worked at the University of Toronto Library. He helped to found the Polish Research Institute in Canada, was joint editor of Slavica Canadiana, for which he compiled the Polish section, and contributed to the journals Canadian Slavonic Papers and Kultura. He died Toronto, Ontario on 18 September 1963.) - http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/turek_v.shtml