The Ukrainian Canadian Committee, renamed the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) in 1990, was organized in Winnipeg, Manitoba on November 7, 1940. It was formed under the initiative of the federal government of Canada and non-Communist Ukrainian organizations to consolidate a large Ukrainian population under an umbrella-like structure for a united war effort during the Second World War and Postwar period. Being politically and religiously neutral, the UCC played a key role in campaigning, on behalf of the 200,000 Ukrainian refugees stranded in Western Europe after the war, to the federal government of Canada for their resettlement in this country. Later, the postwar changes in the community profile, including urbanization and trend toward professional education, naturally led to cultural and lingual assimilation.

he UCC has a central executive in Winnipeg, local branches in many Canadian cities, and provincial councils in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, and British Columbia. The UCC acts as an umbrella committee over the various Ukrainian organizations within Canada and, at the local level, the UCC Edmonton Branch represents twelve Ukrainian organizations and their affiliates. The UCC Edmonton Branch coordinates the efforts of the Ukrainian Canadian community at the local level to pursue projects that are too large for any one organization or those projects which are of common interest among them.