Career
He represented Cut Knife from 1967 to 1975 and Cut Knife-Lloydminster from 1975 to 1978 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member. He was born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan, the son of Peter Kwasnica and Alice Bayers – both emigrants from Ukraine – and was educated in Wakaw, at the Saskatoon Teacher"s College and at the University of Saskatchewan. He settled in Lloydminster.
In 1955, Kwasnica married Patricia Alice Guggenmos.
The couple later divorced.
