Background
Born in Canora, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, Annie Romaniuk and Theodore Fedoruk. Fedoruk attended a one room schoolhouse in Wroxton at Yorkton, where her father taught.
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Born in Canora, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, Annie Romaniuk and Theodore Fedoruk. Fedoruk attended a one room schoolhouse in Wroxton at Yorkton, where her father taught.
In 1946, she completed her studies at Walkerville Collegiate, at the top of her class and was awarded the Ernest J. Creed Memorial Medal and an entrance scholarship to attend University. Fedoruk completed her Master of Arts
In 1951. Fedoruk was recruited by Doctor Harold East. Johns to be the radiation physicist at Saskatoon Cancer Clinic. She became the chief medical physicist at the Saskatoon Cancer Clinic and director of physics services at the Saskatchewan Cancer Clinic. She was a professor of oncology and associate member in physics at the University of Saskatchewan.
She was involved in the development of the world"s first cobalt-60 unit and one of the first nuclear medicine scanning machines.
From 1986 to 1989 she was chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan. She was the first female to fill this position at the University of Saskatchewan.
She is a past president (1971 to 1972) of the Canadian Ladies Curling Association. From 1988 to 1994, she was Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.
In the 1990s, the City of Saskatoon named a new road named Fedoruk Road in her honour.
Fedoruk Road runs north of the community of Silverspring, which honours noted Saskatchewan sports figures in its street names, along with the future Evergreen subdivision, Fedoruk Road in the future is expected to evolve into one of the major arterial roadways in the northeast sector of the city. As of 2015, Fedoruk Road is split in two parts. The first phase goes from Konihowski Road in Silverspring to Zary Road in Evergreen, while the second phase goes from Evergreen Boulevard to McOrmond Drive.
On October 3, 2012 the name of the Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (CCNI) was changed to the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation in honor of the pioneering work she did in the treatment of cancer using cobalt-60 radiation therapy in the 1950s.
In 2009, she was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
She was the first woman member of the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada.