Neila Premachuk is a true northern pioneer. She came to The Pas from Ukraine in the 1920’s. She was a woman entrepreneur before the term was coined. After her husband’s death, she ran the local store in The Pas from the early 1920’s to 1960 and in Lynn Lake from 1960-75, returning to The Pas in 1980. She also ran a fly-in fishing and hunting lodge, catering to U.S. fisherman in the 1960’s and 1970’s providing employment to many local hunting and fishing guides. One of the visitors to her fly-in lodge worked for Walt Disney resulting in her being requested by the company to find animals to appear in Disney movies in the 1960’s.<\/p>\n
In the summer of 2000, she was invited to tea at Buckingham Palace to honour her work to develop the north and its residents. She was also honoured by the local RCMP detachment in 1998 for more than 50 years of community service to The Pas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-10915","oom-recipients","type-oom-recipients","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients\/10915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oom-recipients"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}