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Steve Juba
Nominated by: RON HALAS
Why Steve Juba should be a Great Manitoban:
Claim to fame: Populist Winnipeg mayor
Manitoba dosage: 5
Fast Facts: At one point, sat simultaneously as an MLA and Winnipeg's mayor...Served as mayor from 1957-1977...The son of Ukrainian immigrants, he was the first Ukrainian-Canadian to hold a major political post in Winnipeg...By drawing support from the poorer and more ethnically diverse north end, he upset a political balance that until then tilted towards the south...Oversaw the 1967 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg.
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8 Comments
Steve, this city needs you now more than ever! Here's hoping that one day your Zombie will run for mayor.
Posted by: Chris | 2008-05-30 20:09:41
Mayor Juba put Winnipeg on the map and was instrumental in bringing the Pan-Am games to Winnipeg. If we had mayors with half the media savvy as Mayor Juba, Winnipeg would be the Greatest city in Canada.
Posted by: John Goshulak | 2008-05-31 23:04:54
he was a great mayor
Posted by: faye golubchik | 2008-06-05 15:40:26
was a great mayor
Posted by: daniel fraser | 2008-06-22 22:14:24
He was above politics (in the party sense) but was a very political person. A Wpg patriot. Boy, do we miss him!
Posted by: Tam | 2008-06-29 13:50:01
STEVE JUBA WAS AN INDEPENDENT POLITICIAN . He was a special invited Guest/Speaker at the Manitoba Reunion in Vancouver B.C. during EXPO 1986 with some 18,000 Manitobas attending. The Pawley NDP Manitoba Government was the ONLY Provincial Government who refused to sponsor a pavilion. Some 26 million attended EXPO l986 and it was a spectacular success. Thanks to local B.C. ex-'Peggers and special Manitoba entertainers- Our Manitoba Day had a profit of some $48,000. which we donated to the Variety Club less $5,000.00 to build a Sally Ann Summer Camp Cabin for needy children. Steve Juba leaves a legacy of loyalty to his home Province which extended beyond his retirement.
Posted by: Shirley - NE the 'Peg,MB. | 2008-07-09 16:39:29
STEVE JUBA WAS AN INDEPENDENT POLITICIAN . He was a special invited Guest/Speaker at the Manitoba Reunion in Vancouver B.C. during EXPO 1986 with some 18,000 Manitobas attending. The Pawley NDP Manitoba Government was the ONLY Provincial Government who refused to sponsor a pavilion. Some 26 million attended EXPO l986 and it was a spectacular success. Thanks to local B.C. ex-'Peggers and special Manitoba entertainers- Our Manitoba Day had a profit of some $48,000. which we donated to the Variety Club less $5,000.00 to build a Sally Ann Summer Camp Cabin for needy children. Steve Juba leaves a legacy of loyalty to his home Province which extended beyond his retirement OR political pettiness.
Posted by: Shirley - NE the 'Peg,MB. | 2008-07-09 16:41:35
As a young girl who lived on Maryland a few houses away from the Mayor he and his wife would sit in the backyard garden and relax.They always had a huge bowl of colorful Jelly Beans to give to all the kids in the neighborhood bought from Wilson's Grocery on the corner of Sargent and Sherbrook. Great choice.So sad about his wife being ill and the nightmare she had to undergo to be wrongly diagnosed and used as a guinee pig back then.Yet this Mayor kept on forward with his ideals. Great choice!
Posted by: LD | 2008-07-10 01:00:41
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