ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Stanislav Vasylchuk is more than 6,000 kilometres from home, and he’s the only Ukrainian in the remote Newfoundland mining town of Baie…
Newfoundland and Labrador is home to the country’s oldest and most rapidly aging population, driven by decades of out-migration in rural parts of the province. Young people leave in search of jobs when they can’t find one at home, and they leave their aging parents behind.
Vasylchuk, who goes by Stan, stepped off the plane with a job as an engineering technologist lined up at the Baie Verte mine owned by Rambler Metals and Mining. For the first few months, he stayed at a hotel in St. John’s with dozens of other newly arrived Ukrainians while resettlement workers helped him get a driver’s licence and insurance and set up a bank account.
“You know, the flag of Ukraine? If you see it, it is yellow on the bottom and blue on the top,” he said. “The place where I lived, that’s what it looks like.”
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