The Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies is a creation of St. Andrew's College in Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba.

St. Andrew's College in Winnipeg - a parent institution and a home base of the Centre - was incorporated by an Act of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly in April 1946 and was first located in the former St. John's College, corner of Church and Charles, in North Winnipeg.

The Charter of the College provided for two faculties: Arts and Theology, as well as for eventual affiliation of the College with a university.

In July, 1964, St. Andrew's, as an Associate College, moved to its present quarters built on the University of Manitoba campus - the university of its choice - and proceeded with its gradual integration into the new academic family.

To facillitate this process of integration and, especially, the development and accreditation of an appropriate slate of Arts courses, as a basis of the forthcoming affiliation, the College procured the services of the Reverend O. A. Krawchenko - then a lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina campus - and in 1973, appointed him its Dean of Arts (later, in 1974, Dean of Studies). His mission was to prepare the college academically toward its full affiliation with the University.

In January 1981 St. Andrew's College in Winnipeg officially signed an Agreement of Affiliation with the University of Manitoba, based on its - accredited by now - Arts program, consisting of 17 courses in language, fine arts, history, geography, religion, literature, folklore and political studies. These became the basis of the newly created Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies, housed at St. Andrew's College in Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba. The Reverend O. A. Krawchenko assumed the temporary (1981/82) leadership of the Centre. In January 1982, Dr. Natalia Aponiuk was appointed Director of the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies. The current Acting Director is Dr. Roman Yereniuk, since January 2008.