Taste of home: Ukrainian community in P.E.I. opening new store [Video]

P.E.I.’s Ukrainian community will celebrate the opening of a new store this weekend that will feature food, beverages and other treats from their home country. 

This is the second Soika store, with the first store opening earlier this summer in Dartmouth. The shop was created by a couple from Ukraine who wanted to share a taste of home with their Canadian neighbours. 

“A lot of people [waited in] the line for three hours to … purchase from the store,” said Alla Lebedeva, project manager for Soika, located in the Kirkwood Mews in Charlottetown. 

“It’s very popular and we still have a lot of customers every day coming to buy our food.”

Lebedeva said soika means “small bird,” which in Ukrainian culture symbolizes luck, resourcefulness and the ability to survive in any conditions.

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