Canadian History vignette – Ukrainians introducing medicare

Remember those Canadian history vigenettes you (sed to see on TV?  I almost forgot about the one featuring Myrnam Hospital – where the Ukrainian community in Alberta along with others volunteered their time and effort in the post depression era to provide all medical services, except hospitalization, for free.

Click here to view the site to watch the video and read more.  For some reason the movie wouldn’t play in Firefox, but worked in Internet Explorer just fine.

Edit:  A YouTube version is now available:

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