Bill Kardash
Canadian politician (1912–1997)
William Arthur Kardash (June 10, 1912 – January 17, 1997) was a politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1941 until 1958. He served as Winnipeg MLA from 1941 to 1958, as Worker's Candidate at first, then as a representative of the Labor-Progressive Party. He was among the handful of Communists elected in Winnipeg between 1927 and 1983.
The youngest child of Ukrainian Canadian parents Danylo Kardash and Ulyta Byck, he was born in Hafford, Saskatchewan, north of Saskatoon, and educated at Hafford High School.
Kardash was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, having fought with the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion, in which he lost a leg. He was a member of the Communist Party of Canada and, after 1943, the Labor-Progressive Party, which was the legal front of the Communist Party after it was banned. Kardash became the first leader of the Manitoba LPP in 1943, retaining the position until 1948 when he resigned for health reasons. He was also the first national chairman of the LPP.
In 1940, Kardash married Mary Kostaniuk, with whom he had two children, Ted and Nancy.
In 1941, he was elected to the provincial legislature in the ten-member district of Winnipeg. He was re-elected in 1945.
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