Ehor Boyanowsky helped found the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, co-founded the Canadian Constitutional Foundation, served as president of the SFU Faculty Association, and twice as president of The Confederation of Faculty Associations of BC, as well as The Steelhead Society of BC, positions reflecting his major commitment to universities as founts of knowledge, to civil rights in Canada and to wild river and wild fish conservation. He now lives in the Thompson River Valley with his wife, Cristina Martini, his English setters and two cats at Nighthawk Ranch now a wildlife preserve.