Alex Biega (lawyer)

For the Canadian ice hockey player, see Alex Biega (ice hockey).

Alexander Biega QC was a Canadian lawyer and author. He was the President of the Ukrainian Canadian Centennial Commission – Quebec,^[1] and author of The Ukrainian Experience in Quebec (Toronto, Basilian Press, 1994).

Background

He was the son of Peter Biega, a Ukrainian emigrant who settled in Canada.^[2] Biega was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1949^[3] and practiced as a criminal defence lawyer in Montreal, Quebec.^[4][5][6]

His book, The Ukrainian Experience in Quebec (co-written with Myroslaw Diakowsky), was published by Basilian Press, in both French and English, in 1994.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Biega died in September 2004 at the age of 82.^[11]