Nicholas Volodymir Bachynsky was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
12 Facts About Nicholas Bachynsky
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Nicholas Bachynsky served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1922 to 1958, and was Speaker of the Assembly for most of Douglas Campbell's administration.
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Nicholas Bachynsky attended teacher's college in Brandon and worked as a teacher before entering politics.
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Nicholas Bachynsky was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1922 provincial election.
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Nicholas Bachynsky again defeated Mabb, who was by this time identifying himself as a Conservative, in the 1927 election.
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Nicholas Bachynsky was again returned with comfortable margins in the elections of 1932 and 1936, now identifying himself as a Liberal-Progressive after an alliance between the province's Liberal and Progressive parties.
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Nicholas Bachynsky again defeated Michalchuk, then a CCF candidate, in the 1945 election by 121 votes.
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Nicholas Bachynsky was returned without difficulty in the elections of 1949 and 1953.
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Nicholas Bachynsky had difficulty concealing his dislike of the CCF backbench, and once expressed his sympathy to CCF leader Seymour Farmer for putting up with this "bunch of wild broncos".
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Lloyd Stinson, who became leader of the Manitoba CCF in 1952, claimed Nicholas Bachynsky was "such a volatile, vociferous orator that he was temperamentally unsuited to be an impartial moderator".
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Stinson claims that Nicholas Bachynsky consistently ruled against the CCF on procedural matters after becoming speaker.
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Nicholas Bachynsky died on his farm in Poplarfield in 1969.