New Beginnings in Sault Ste. Marie

Discover how three families from Ukraine, India and Trinidad chose Sault Ste. Marie as their new home, thriving through community support and new career opportunities

Created for SOME NEWCOMERS SPEND years planning their move to Canada. For others, a sudden turn of events brings them to a city that they now call their perfect home. That latter situation is how Iryna and Dmytro Pustovar found themselves moving from Ukraine to Sault Ste. Marie in 2022—a few stressful months after Russia invaded their home country. The couple were preparing to return home to Kyiv from vacation in Sri Lanka when conflict to uproot their lives. “We were following the newspapers and Facebook posts to see what people were doing, where we could go,” says Iryna. “Working in television production, it seemed like we could have a lot of opportunities in Canada. But then we started thinking where should we go? Canada is huge.” All signs pointed…

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Maclean's (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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