page_title: Vita, Manitoba
hierarchical_section_title: Vita, Manitoba
caption_attribution_description: English: The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Vita Manitoba.
context_page_description: Vita is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in southeast Manitoba settled by Ukrainian immigrants in the late 1890s. It is roughly 50 km by road from Steinbach in the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn. The community's name was originally Shevchenko. The name of the village and the post office was changed to Vita in 1910, because when the railroad came through, the rail-line laying foreman reserved his right to name stations along the line in Italian.
  Vita has a multi-cultural population with residents from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, the largest being Ukrainian and Mennonite.
  Vita is served by "Shevchenko School", built in 1970. It educates Kindergarten through Grade 12. From 1965 until 1991 the Ukrainian language was taught as an option at the elementary and secondary levels – parallel to the French language.
  Businesses and services in Vita include, but are not limited to: a restaurant, fuel station, hospital, credit union with drive-thru ATM, post office, two grocery stores, an arena-curling rink, a liquor store, and a hotel-motel.
  Vita is known for its large Canada Day celebration on July 1 of each year.
context_section_description: Vita (/ˈvaɪtə/; Ukrainian: Вайта, romanized: Vaita) is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in southeast Manitoba settled by Ukrainian immigrants in the late 1890s. It is roughly 50 km (31 mi) by road from Steinbach (via PTH 12 and Provincial Road 302) in the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn. The community's name was originally Shevchenko. The name of the village and the post office was changed to Vita in 1910, because when the railroad came through, the rail-line laying foreman (who was of Italian background) reserved his right to name stations along the line in Italian (though the pronunciation was Anglicized).
  Vita has a multi-cultural population with residents from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, the largest being Ukrainian and Mennonite.
  Vita is served by "Shevchenko School" (part of the Border Land School Division), built in 1970. It educates Kindergarten through Grade 12. From 1965 until 1991 the Ukrainian language (in the Canadian Ukrainian dialect) was taught as an option at the elementary and secondary levels – parallel to the French language.
  Businesses and services in Vita include, but are not limited to: a restaurant, fuel station, hospital, credit union with drive-thru ATM, post office, two grocery stores, an arena-curling rink, a liquor store, and a hotel-motel.
  Vita is known for its large Canada Day celebration on July 1 of each year. The event generally includes a softball tournament, rodeo, beer gardens, and live entertainment. The night is capped off by a fireworks display.
  In the 1950s and 1960s, Vita was known for staging major, high-priced baseball tournaments hosted by the community's two teams. The Vita Cubs and Vita Mallards played distant teams like Angusville from the Saskatchewan–Northwest Border district; Chatfield/Grosse Isle in the Interlake; Kenora, Ontario; Greenbush, Lancaster, and Karlstad, Minnesota; Plum Coulee/Winkler to the west & many other teams (Grunthal, St-Pierre-Jolys, Vassar, Dominion City, Sundown, etc.). The 1955 Vita Cubs team was elected into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame along with Steve Derewianchuk, catcher. The Vita Mallards played in Senior Baseball Championships and in the Winnipeg Senior Baseball League as the St. Boniface Mallards. The Vic Bozyk Memorial Trophy in the Manitoba Junior Baseball League is named in honour of Victor Bozyk, who was a dominant pitcher for the Cubs and a major contributor to junior baseball in Manitoba.
caption: Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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