Savelia Curniski has guided thousands of Canadian tourists through Ukraine, including many from Saskatchewan who are of Ukrainian descent.
Curniski’s grandparents came to Canada from Ukraine in 1904, and she is among the more than 12 percent of Saskatchewanians of Ukrainian descent.
She had great enthusiasm for connecting with her roots, and for helping others do so as well, when she started giving tours in the 1990s. But in 2004, an encounter at a truck stop in Ukraine changed her life and took her tours in a very different direction.
