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evidence: Taras Demeter Ferley -LRB- October 14 , 1882 -- July 27 , 1947 -RRB- was a publisher and politician in Manitoba , Canada .. Manitoba. Manitoba. Canada. Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1915 to 1920 as a supporter of the Liberal Party , and is notable as the first Ukrainian Canadian to be elected to Manitoba 's legislature .. Manitoba. Manitoba. Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Liberal Party. Manitoba Liberal Party. Ukrainian Canadian. Ukrainian Canadian. Ferley was born in Austro-Hungarian controlled Ukraine , and educated at the Kolomyja Gymnasium and Lemberg University .. Austro-Hungarian. Austria-Hungary. Ukraine. Ukraine. Lemberg University. Lemberg University. In the Ukraine , he was a member of the Radical Party .. Ukraine. Ukraine. Radical Party. Ukrainian Radical Party. He moved to San Francisco , California in 1903 , and took part in a communal living experiment which ended in failure after a few months .. California. California. He arrived Canada in 1905 and worked as a publisher and real estate broker .. Canada. Canada. He became the director of the Ukrainian Publishing Company of Canada , and also taught at the Ruthenian Training School at Brandon for a period beginning in 1907 till 1910 .. Canada. Canada. Brandon. Brandon, Manitoba. He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election , contesting the constituency of Gimli as an Independent-Liberal .. Manitoba. Manitoba. 1914 provincial election. Manitoba general election, 1914. Gimli. Gimli ( Manitoba riding ). He lost , finishing third against Conservative Sveinn Thorvaldson and official Liberal candidate Einar Jonasson .. Conservative. Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba. Sveinn Thorvaldson. Sveinn Thorvaldson. Einar Jonasson. Einar Jonasson. Ferley ran again as an Independent-Liberal in the 1915 provincial election , and became the constituency 's de facto Liberal candidate after Jonasson withdrew from the race .. 1915 provincial election. Manitoba general election, 1915. Ferley defeated Thorvaldson by 610 votes , and supported Tobias Norris 's Liberal administration for the next five years .. Tobias Norris. Tobias Norris. In his parliamentary biography , Ferley emphasized his loyalty to Canada and to the British Empire .. Canada. Canada. British Empire. British Empire. As the sole Ukrainian member of the legislature , Ferley protested against the federal government 's treatment of Ukrainian-Canadians during World War I. Unlike others in the Liberal Party , he also defended Manitoba 's bilingual education system of state funding for Anglophone and Francophone schools .. Manitoba. Manitoba. Liberal Party. Manitoba Liberal Party. World War I. World War I. He was defeated in the 1920 provincial election , losing to Farmer candidate Gudmundur Fjelsted by 117 votes .. 1920 provincial election. Manitoba general election, 1920. Farmer. United Farmers of Manitoba. Gudmundur Fjelsted. Gudmundur Fjelsted