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In the summers of 1976-1981 inclusive, Patricia Pelech (Olsen) Carrow taught Ukrainian Folk Weaving at the Banff School of Fine Arts, now the Banff Centre, in their Visual Arts Department as part of its Weaving/Textile Arts program (later called Fibre Arts). She and her mother, Fiona Pelech, did extensive research in developing visual presentations for this course. They prepared over one thousand slides to present to the students as reference material. The sources for the slides are unknown.

Included in the slides are images pertaining to Ukrainian weaving, embroidery, costuming, baking, ceremonial occasions and photographs of the class participants in Banff.

Contains a quote from Taras Shevchenko, a document on the "Real Rulers of Soviet Russia", a letter, a document titled "I am a Ukrainian not a Russian" and a document titled "14 Commandments for the Conscious Ukrainian".

The collection consists of an interview with Ukrainian Canadian artist and iconographer Pavlo Lopata conducted by Maryna Chernyavska on October 25, 2017 at the Kule Folklore Centre, University of Alberta.

Part 1: Nee - Olha Gerenychuk (??); born on December 27, 1910 in Kodnia, Zhytomyr region; Orthodox; finished a 7 year Ukrainian school in Kodnia; came to Canada with parents and 3 other siblings in 1928; Ukrainian churches in Zhytomyr in the 1920s; Kodnia-Kyiv-Moscow-Riga-England-Halifax; settled in Winnipeg; started working as a seamstress; hardships of buying a farm; after 5 years on a farm moved to Toronto, to a factory; she went to Institute Prosvita (participating at the amature theatre), Narodnyi Dim, UNO; assimilation efforts; conflicts with Ukrainian Communists before WWII; married in 1937 with Stepan Pavliuk; moving to London during WWII; British Museum Library; Dr. K; Lotman (??) and his journal against the USSR; Lord Gescal (??) and his “History of Ukraine”; Davydovych; Gescal’s tragic death; she returned to Canada in 1945; manuscript of Gescal.

Part 2: Gescal (??); interest of non-Ukrainians in the Ukrainian cause; WWII events and admiration with the USSR; she worked as a typist; Panchuk in London - Ukrainian Veterans’ Club; Hania Khryplyva (??); Kozicky (??) the Secretary; Hania Panchuk; Fr. Savchuk; Fr. Horoshko; Fr. Symchych; CUC; Davydovych; Dr. K shut down the Bureau and left for Canada; UCSA; Catholics vs Orthodox; life in London; she came back to Canada in April 1945; army life of her husband.

Part 1: Travel to Halifax at the end of WWII after 7 years of absence; she settled in Toronto; joined UNO with her husband Stepan; creating Ukrainian Veterans Association; Panchuk; Stepan helping the veterans; Pohorets’kyi (?); in 5 years, her husband with a partner bought a hotel; conflicts inside the Ukrainian community; Ukrainians coming from the WWII tried to catch up with their Canadian fellows in terms of material goods.