Part 1: Born on August 2, 1933 in Kirkland Lake, ON; his father came to Canada for economic reasons, from Ternopil region, Buchach district, a village of Trebukhivtsi, in 1928; his father remarried in Ruan (??), Quebec; WWII, Ukrainian family of Borzuns; V-Day; finished High School in Kirkland, University of Pennsylvania; his life at the University; Slavic Club at the University; after graduating he went to Baltimore (??), took a job; his unfortunate love with a Ukrainian girl - prejudiced Ukrainians; growing up as a Ukrainian in Canada; Ukrainian school at Kirkland - teacher Mary Kuzyk, Tkachuk (??), Paraschuk (??), Mary Kozlov, textbooks; Ukrainian Hall; Ukrainian dances; Mike Kwinka (??).
Part 2: Mike Kwinka (??) teaching Ukrainian dances; Olga Romanov; Ukrainian Labor Temple; DPs; working as a mine inspector in the beginning of 1950s; 1940 strike in Kirkland when nationalists did go for strike; working conditions in mines; leaders of the Labor Temple: Steve Knysh (Secretary); Nick Lapish (??); Harry Prokopchuk (??); Mike Metliuk (??); a cooperative store later converted in Jehovah Witnesses Hall; DPs; Russell’s work in mines; he came back to Toronto after the American University in 1957; Ukrainian community started declining in Kirklake in 1940; Harry Prokopchuk (??); Lapish (??); Ukrainian orchestra; Mary Kuzyk - music teacher.
Part 3: Entertainment in small towns; Ukrainian community used to be the most active; costumes were homemade - no renting at that time; people in the Labor Temple; Yachuk (??); Ukrainian identity of Russell.
