Paulette (Pawlina) Demchuk MacQuarrie has been a voice of Nash Holos (“Our Voice”) since the program’s debut in 1990.
Since 2000, she has hosted and produced the Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio on AM1320 CHMB. What started as a local multicultural radio program grew under her watch into one of the longest‑running Ukrainian‑themed broadcasts in Canada.
She added podcasting in 2002—long before it was mainstream—and later expanded the show into international syndication (2010-2020) and a Vancouver Island edition (2011).
Born in Winnipeg and raised across the Prairies, Pawlina developed a deep connection to her Ukrainian culture from her grandparents, and she spent many happy childhood years on the family homestead near Arran, Saskatchewan. That connection deepened while studying at the University of Manitoba in the early 1980s.
In the late 1980s, while working in the airline industry, she began freelance writing for local community publications and The Ukrainian Weekly (New Jersey). After moving to the west coast in 1988, she eventually transitioned into full‑time writing and editing, producing high‑level corporate and organizational communications.
Her creative work includes a contribution to the anthology Kobzar’s Children (2006), and in 2024 she published a cookbook inspired by recipes that aired on Nash Holos over many years.
Throughout the 1990s, Pawlina was active in Vancouver’s Ukrainian community, She served on the boards of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (BC Provincial Council) and the Ukrainian Community Society of Ivan Franko. She also authored the Report on Multiculturalism for the Government of British Columbia in 1990 and served on the province’s Advisory Council to the Ministry of Multiculturalism from 1995–96.
Since 2010, Pawlina and her husband have made their home on Vancouver Island. Nash Holos—on air and online—remains her enduring passion and creative focus.