On September 10, 1992, a Canadian of Ukrainian descent,
Erast Hutsulyak, obtained a house at 331
Metcalfe Street in
Ottawa for $615,000; he donated it to the
Government of Ukraine as accommodation for the
Embassy of Ukraine in Canada. The embassy was officially opened on December 1, 1992. In 1994, another house was purchased for the embassy, at 310
Somerset Street West, for $1.8 million. The new building is located 700 m (0.43 mi) from the first one. Most of the funds came from the
Ukrainian Canadian Congress. The building at Metcalfe Street was left for the Consulate of Ukraine in Ottawa.
Ambassadors to Canada
1991–1992
Aleksei Rodionov (Chargé d'Affaires of Ukraine in Canada)