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Part 1: Real name - Vasyl’ Pukish, born on December 11, 1903 in Kalush; Greek-Catholic; he had 4 brothers and a sister; his father and brother went to the WWI; war with Poland; he joined a church choir for 2 years; was conscripted to the Polish Army (infantry); he came to Canada in 1927 (Gdynia - Quebec); staying in Winnipeg, Regina; working at a CPR Hotel; Communist Hall in Regina; Dr. Pavliuchenko; General Kapustians’kyi (??); Strilets’ka hromada: Mykhailo Babiy (??); Topol’nyts’kyi (??); Hrytsei (??); his wife - Ol’ha Druzhkova, was born in USA; they married in 1929; Strilets’ka hromada was formed in 1929; conference in Saskatoon in 1934 (1935?)- Kurmanovych, Pavliuchenko, Yanovs’kyi (??); Het’mantsi in Regina; Zaharuk from UNO; UNO Hall; discrimination against Ukrainians.

Part 2: Choir; Ukrainian weddings in Canada; Senyk Hrybivs’kyi (??); Colonel Sushko (??); General Kurmanovych (??); UNO creation; UNO Heads - Hryhorovych, Kosar; Voinarovych (??); Holodomor; WWII, sentiments about Germans; William moved from Regina to Toronto in 1941; working at a hotel; owning a store; joining Strilets’ka hromada in Toronto; Fr. Konovets’kyi (??); Fr. Lepskyi (??); Fr. Kahurs’kyi (??); Fr. Denesh (??); Kosar stopped being the Head of UNO in 1954 (?).

Part 3: Komitet uzdorovlennia UNO; Pohorets’kyi (Editor); moving CUC to Toronto; building a new church; Fr. Denesh (??); Fr. Kamenets’kyi (??).

Part 1: Born on December 19, 1898 in a village of Trebukhivtsi (now “Druzhba”), Ternopil region; Buchach povit; he came to Canada in May 1928, to Quebec, then to Saskatoon; WWI - he was a soldier in Russian Army; he was at the Romanian and Italian fronts; deserted the army and was hiding; was in the Ukrainian Army, was a POW till 1921; Petliura; Petrushevych; hiding weapon in the dirt; his father died in the Italian front; he came back after WWI and married in 1924; he found his father’s brother in Canada; at first, was working at bush clearing; several Ukrainians were deported back, since they had no jobs; Dukhobory; Ukrainian Orthodox church in Hufford; Prosvita; Strilets’ka hromada in Hafford; Mykola Hryhorovych; Ukrainian community in Ruan (??); frequent demonstrations against unemployment; Ukrainian church in Ruan (??); Nick married again in Ruan, his wife was Varvara Donets’; he moved to Kirkland in 1938; his brother went to Ukraine in 1932 and returned to Kirkland in 1934; Natsional’ne ob’iednannia in Kirkland Lake.

Part 2: Robitnychyi Dim; Strilets’ka hromada; visit of Hul’tai (??); theatrical activities and dances at the Robitnychyi Dim; priests dividing Ukrainians: Fr. Kushchak (??), Fr. Chorniy (??); theatrical plays at the Robitnychyi Dim; Ridna shkola - teacher Semenov, Karpish - the first teacher; orchestra; Tkachuk (??); Plashka (Kuzyk) (??); Olga Roman (??); Robitnychyi dim was closed in 1939 and returned in 1942; helping Ukraine during WWII; Markovs’kyi - the 1st Head of Robitnychyi dim in the1930s; nationalists sitting very quietly; DPs; closing mines; coal mine Union had 5000 members; Union’s strike in 1940; influence of DPs; Robitnychyi dim was sold in 1976; Nick stopped working in mines in 1968.

Part 3: (Interviewee: John) was born on December 2, 1902; his wife’s nee was Anna Donets’; he came to Canada in March 1922; he had a farm in Vegreville; his wife joined him in Canada in 1935 (after his visit to Ukraine in 1932-34), they married in 1935
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