OTTAWA – Danny Schur has, over more than 15 years, put his creative and emotional heart into telling the story of a Ukrainian immigrant who became a pivotal figure in his account of Canada’s most famous labor strike 100 years ago. But it was Mr. Schur’s physical heart that nearly felled the Ukrainian Canadian award-winning music composer and producer before the culmination of much of his life’s labour hit the big screen.
While playing in goal in a pickup-hockey game on the evening of September 30 in his hometown, Winnipeg, Mr. Schur, 53, suffered a heart attack. It was as surprising as it was scary.