14 Facts About John Decore

Hafia died when John Decore was only four years old he did not along with his stepmother.

John Decore completed grade eleven before the Great Depression in Canada forced his father to stop supporting him financially.

John Decore articled in Vegreville and was called to the bar in 1939.

The couple lived in Vegreville where John Decore practiced law during the Second World War as John Decore was rejected by the Canadian Armed Forces due to arthritis.

John Decore help to lead work bees and the fundraising efforts during for a public pool so the children of men serving overseas would have recreational activity, and was the president of the Kinsmen Club, the chamber of commerce, and the council of the local Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and school board trustee where he promoted the hiring of Ukrainian-Canadian teachers.

John Decore first ran for the House of Commons as a Liberal candidate in the 1949 federal election.

John Decore defeated Social Credit incumbent Anthony Hlynka in the riding of Vegreville.

John Decore was re-elected in the 1953 election, defeating Hlynka.

John Decore advocated for allowing the members of the controversial 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS to immigrate to Canada.

John Decore considered his "crowning achievement" in politics to be arranging for Prime Minister Louis St Laurent to open the Ukrainian Pioneer Home monument at Elk Island National Park in 1951.

John Decore arranged for a concert of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus in the Railway Committee Room of Parliament and the creation of a Ukrainian-language service at Voice of Canada.

John Decore attempted to return to federal politics in the 1962 election, this time in the Edmonton East electoral district, but he lost to Progressive Conservative incumbent William Skoreyko.

John Decore was involved in the creation of the Court of Queen's Bench for Alberta in 1979.

John Decore retired as chief justice in that year and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1980.