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Stetchishin, Savella
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c181-182 · Item · 16 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Voleniuk (??); Halychyna, Sokal’ region, village Kuberkovychi (??); her father was rich, so they came to Canada for political reasons, not financial; came to Canada with her parents in 1913, when she was 9; settled in Saskatchewan Province, on a farm; the family was Catholic; parents sent her and 2 brothers to the Petro Mohyla Institute in Saskatoon in 1917; Ukrainian life on the farms; Vasyl’ Svystun; Institute’s Choir; Belgium priests, Budka against the Institute; a movement against Rome Catholicism; decision to create the Orthodox Church in 1918; Ukrainian schools and life; SUMC, Panchuk; Dr. Simovych from USA; Dr. Nazaruk; Congress of 1922; students’ organization “Kaminiari”; students’ debates; Catholic students becoming Orthodox ones; UNO; Helen Peters (??); Soiuz ukrainok; Savella finished Teachers College and was teaching; Kliub divchat; Tovarystvo Olhy Kobylians’koi created in 1923; Kharytia Kononenko.

Part 2: Soiuz Ukrainok Ameryky created in 1925; Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady created in 1926; ekzekutyva, 2 sections (one was in Winnipeg with Mrs. Svystun being its Head; another one in Saskatoon with Savella being its Head); Samostiinyky; Konovalets’ visit in 1928; Sushko’s visit; UNO; Ukrains’kyi holos; Myroslav Stechyshyn (??); Mykhailo Stechyshyn (??); Svystun; Svystun and Savchuk; Fr. Kudryk; Savella got a job after the University to give lectures in the area (teaching about Ukrainian embroideries, healthy eating, etc); the name of “samostiinyky”; Stella went to Europe in 1928; Bishops Khomyshyn and Kontselovs’kyi (??) in Halychyna; a writer Andriy Chaikovs’kyi (??) in Kolomyia; “Mariis’ki druzhyny”; Peremyshl’s’kii divochyi instytut; Prof. Mykhailo Vozniak; Panchuk and him teaching at Ridna shkola; CUC creation; Tracy Phillips; Fr. Kushnir; UCSA.

Part 3: Raising money and sending off packages; CUC Congresses; DPs; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Dontsov.

Solomon, John R.
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c179-180 · Item · 30 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on April 30, 1910 in Zoria, Manitoba; he is Orthodox but was born to a Catholic family; his father Roman came from Sapohiv (??), Borshchiv povit; his mother Anna Drozdovych was from Krivcha village, Borshchiv povit; Ivano-Frankivs’k oblast; his parents came to Canada in 1902 and settled in Zoria (10 miles to the North of Dauphin, MB); Solomon finished a Public School “Halych” in the area; Ukrainian was taught every day at the school after 4pm; he had 2 brothers and a sister (she died young); his father was a farmer, he belonged to Narodovtsi movement; his father converted to Orthodoxy in 1918; a church was built in 1920 on the farms; Bishop Budka’s visit to Canada; Fr. Savchuk organized their parish; Fr. Leshchyshyn (??); Berlins’kyi (??); after 8 grades of School he went to High School in Dauphin; there was a Ukrainian Student Club in Narodnyi Dim, Vasyl’ Sklepovych, choir; in 1919 Solomon went to Winnipeg to attend a University to study law; working at a lawyers firm in Dauphin; Svystun the Rector; Ukrainian Self-Reliance Ligue; Farley (??); the Stechyshyns; Bur’ianyk (??); Slidchenko (??); SUS creation; UNO; General Kapustians’kyi (??); converting into Orthodoxy; BUC creation.

Part 2: BUC creation; Svystunivs’ka tserkva; Het’mantsi; Solomon became a lawyer and opened his own company in Selkirk, Manitoba in 1935; Panchuk; Ukrainian Communists in Winnipeg; Solomon moved to Winnipeg in 1941; WWII, confiscation of the Communists properties; UNO; CUC creation, Tracy Phillips’ role; Viktoria Kolessa (??), wife of Phillips; Dr. Kysylevs’kyi (??); Kushnir; Vladyka Vasyliy (??); Kushnir had a support of Samostiinyky; BUC; Solomon was a member of the Liberal Party in Emerson Constituency for 16 years, Ukrainian section of the Emerson Constituency, Ukrainian mentality.

Part 3: Ukrainian mentality; Polish Army Division with a considerable number of Ukrainians; Soloviy (??); Arsenych; Volodymyr Kokhan (??) - Fr. Kushnir brought him to be a director of CUC; Ms. Mandryka; Ukrainian-Canadian efforts and refugees; UN Relief Organization’s meeting in Montreal; Stanley Froliak (??); creation of UCVA; Panchuk; John Karasevych (??); a meeting the Senate regarding the Committee of Immigration, Minister of Immigration, John Glen (??); allowing Diviziia Halychyna into Canada; Vasylyshyn as the Heads of the Relief Fund; Kosar and CUC; Prof. Pavliuchenko; Dmytro Andrievs’kyi.

Part 4: Impact of refugees on Ukrainian life in Canada; UNO vs Liha; a trip of Solomon and Kushnir to the United Nations in San Francisco; Prof. Ganovskyi (??), Shumeiko, Katamai (??) - representatives from American UCC; Fr. Kushnir; Palamarchuk (??), Bodnarchuk (??), Korneichuk (??) - representatives of Ukraine; Fr. Kushnir; Fr. Savchuk; Fr. Semchuk; Anthony Hlynka.

Smylski, Peter
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c175-178 · Item · 17 Dec. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on April 1, 1915 near Dauphin, Manitoba; his wife is Odarka Buhais’ka (??) born in Cobalt, Ontario; they have 4 children; Peter went to a Public school on farms, went to University of Manitoba, then took dentistry in Edmonton, graduated in 1940; now are Orthodox but came from Halychyna as Ukrainian Catholics; Peter went to a summer Ukrainian school in Keld (Haliovs’kyi - teacher, Barkovych, a student of Avramenko); growing in the Ukrainian area of Kosiv near Dauphin; buying a farm for $1200; Prosvita Hall; Arsenych the teacher at a school in the Kosiv school; Orthodox vs Catholics; Ukrains’kyi holos; Bishop Budka’s letter in 1914; Vasyl Svystun, Myroslav Stechyshyn, Kubryk; Orthodox church in Canada was more political than religious; French and Belgium becoming priests for Ukrainian churches; Ukrainian Communists; Danylo Skoropadskyi’s visit to Dauphin; Smilsky stayed at the Hrushevskyi Institute; Dmytro Mel’nyk, Danylo Kobyl’nyk, Faryna - his Institute friends; John Decore organized a Students Club (about 11 members), polkovnyk Sushko came once at the meeting; Samostiinyky; UNO; activities of the Student Club, pani Mykhailenko; Volodymyr Kupchenko.

Part 2: Meeting Doroshenko; spending summer on a farm; UNO; Pacification in Halychyna; newspapers on Holodomor; assassinations of Petliura and Konovalets’; pro-German sentiment before WWII; DPs; he sat a practice in Hamilton; Ivan Pylypiuk; Ukrainian Orthodox group in Hamilton, Zavadovskyi (??); Fedorkiv; Fodchuk; WWII, Anthony Hlynka, Ukrains’kyi holos; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Fr. Voloshyn; he went overseas, to Amsterdam; Dr. Kapusta, Dr. Ruthyk (??); Panchuk; Ann Khraplyva; Helen Koziy (??); Fr. Horoshko.

Part 3: Panchuk and a choir; UCSA; Fr. Horoshko; Helen Koziy (??); CUC; Tracy Phillips; Ukrainian Information Bureau; Steven Davydovych; Dr. K; discrimination against Ukrainians during WWII; 1944 - the Jump (??), Panchuk; Ukrainians at the Polish Forces; DP camps; Bishop Buchko; Mykola Lebid’; Danylo Skoropads’kyi.

Part 4: A split inside the Nationalists camp; Mykola Lebid’; Mel’nyk; Danylo Skoropadskyi’s visit to UCSA; Lady Hill; Bishop Buchko; Panchuk, Tracy Phillips taking action against shipping DPs back to the USSR; MP Michael Foot (??); UN first assembly in 1945, attended it with a press pass; Mykola Bazhan representing USSR; Hector McNeal (??); speeches about DPs; Panchuk; Steve Davydovych, Froliak; Mrs. Roosevelt’s speech; Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau’s name.

Part 5: UNO split; Prosvita; Canadian Legion Branch; Bozhok from UNO; Steven Pawluk (??); CUC in Hamilton; Povoroznyk (??); he came back to Canada in 1947 and went to school in Toronto, change in Ukrainian community in Canada; Orthodox and Catholics; DPs in Canada; Ukrainian Canadian Veteran Association; John Karasevych (??); Dr. K. suggested the name of “Olive Branch”; a branch of veterans in Hamilton, membership; Yaremovych (??)

Part 6: Karasevych; Yaremovych (??); John Yuzyk; Kosar came to Hamilton of behalf of CUC shortly after WWII; Bishop Borets’kyi (??); Ukrainian Communists in Hamilton; SUS, its branches and Congresses; changing the name of the Hrushevskyi Institute; oral surgery in Canada; Dr. Diamond; Ivan Homeniuk, Peter Homeniuk, Ryshchak (??); Klymashko (??); Panchuk; Smilsky became a Chairman of the board of directors of the Institute in Toronto in 1963; Oryshchak (??); Steve Davydovych; Kyrylyk (??) - cultural director; General Hryhorenko; Hrabovskyi (??); Hryhoriak (??)

Part 7: Students Club at the UofToronto (Burshtyns’kyi and Smilsky supported it); perogy eating contest reminding about the spaghetti eating contest; teachers of Ukrainian and Hamilton area; Stechyshyn (??); Smilsky losing money for the University Program to exist in 1963; Metropolitan Illarion’s visit.

Smith, Ann (Crapleve)
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c173-174 · Item · 29 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Khraplyva; born on December 24, 1912 in Ladywood (Manitoba); her parents came to Canada in 1898, stayed for 2 years, and then returned to Halychyna because her father’s mother had died; they the whole family came back to Canada in 1901; family was Orthodox in the old country but she was baptized in Ukrainian Catholic church in Canada; during WWII went overseas (November 1943), Ukrainian Canadian Services Association, Panchuk; she became the first Treasurer; the building was rented (it was an Anglican Church); living in barracks; Helen Kozicky; she came to Canada in March 1946, stationed in Ottawa and came to Winnipeg to be discharged in September 1946, and then went back overseas with a group in October 1946; Ukrainian Canadian Relief Mission = Ukrainian Canadian Mission for Ukrainian Victims of War; Froliak; Urbanovych (??); Captain Davydovych (??); UCSA closed in December 31, 1945 and CURB (??) started on January 1, 1946; Gordon (??); Korostovych (??); Skoropadskyi; CUC; Horoshko; Mrs. Mandryka; Froliak playing politics (Banderivtsi); George Kliuchevskyi (??); Mrs. Kowalsky (??); being in British zone of occupation.

Part 2: Being in American zone of occupation; Kushnir; Panchuk left in December 1947; DPs, DP representative, Relief Fund; coming back to Canada in 1947, giving lectures with Panchuk; League of Nations; Gordon; DPs; German transit camp; SUP (??)

Part 3: Panchuk and Yeremovych (??); Liquidation Commission; Korostovych (??); the Vasylyshyns; Andriyevskyi (??); secret instruction from Canada regarding Ukrainians; Gordon; SUP annual meeting; CPUE; Smith was a Director of the Canadian Ukrainian relief fund, Vasylyshyn succeeded her; Dorothy Yanda (??); she came back in 1952 and Relief Fund was finished; her husband was George Colder (??); became a Supervisor of Canadian pensions.

Stodolny, William
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c172 · Item · 28 Jul. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Halychyna, near Drohobych, village Dolytsia (??) on March 22, 1899; his wife is Pavlina Khomiy (??); he came to Canada on July 12, 1925 (from Gdansk); finished the village school; he was in Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; first came to Quebec, then to Canora; moving to Ontario; Prosvita in Canora; Communists in Canora; building a Catholic church - burned down; moving to Atikokan, Ontario in 1927; Socialists; Bishop Budka; community converting to Orthodoxy in 1934; Seretiuk; SUS; UNO, Charyk (??) in 1938; Strilets’ka hromada; Karpats’ka Ukraina.

Part 2: Prosvita hall; CUC creation; mel’nykivtsi vs banderivtsi; DPs; UPA; Volodymyr Kosar; Novyi shliakh, Farmar journal; Surma.

Shatulsky, Myron
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c170-171 · Item · 5 Apr. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Winnipeg in 1930; grew up in a Precher (??) area, spoke only Ukrainian at home; as a young boy became a member of the Junior Section of the Ukrainian Labor Temple; went to a Ukrainian school; the family subscribed Ukrainian newspapers; his father Matviy Shatulsky first went to England, then to the USA and then came to Canada in 1911, he was from the Tsarist Russia, was Orthodox; his mother came to Canada in 1922; his father died when Myron was quite young; his father was arrested in 1940 and kept in Escas (??); Semchyshyn was his school friend; confiscation of the Communist Hall; a division between Bolsheviks and Nationalists; CUC.

Part 2: The wife introduces herself. In 1946 his father went to visit Ukraine, in 1947 he went across western Canada reporting on what he saw. He himself was always politically conscious. He was watching his father who affected him greatly. His talk about boys he went to school with. Banderivtsi. DPs. SS Galicia. They taught Ukrainian school that included dancing, Ukrainian language. Cultural level of Ukrainian life in Canada. They taught young people full time dancing, choir, orchestra. It was a big interest in Ukrainian dance in 1953.

Part 3: Life and study in Soviet Ukraine: Oleksander Klymiuk (??); Viriovka; Ryl’s’koho Institute; Fakul’tet narodnykh instrumentiv; Patorzhyns;kyi; studying with Krachko and Zakarpats’kyi khor; Shatulsky came back from Soviet Ukraine in 1953; Svystun and “Svystunivs’ka tserkva”; John Kolasky; applying his received knowledge in Canada; the Famine issue.

Part 4: The Famine issue; defending the Soviet system; Ukrainian-Canadian culture; cultural exchanges.

Semchuk, Stephan
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c169 · Item · 3 Dec. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Lviv; came to Canada in 1928; Ukrainian Catholic; came to Canada on Bishop Budka’s invitation; his father worked at a post office; Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada and its relations with Catholics; BUC; UNO; Canada at the end of the 1920s; Konovalets’ visit; CUC creation; Prof. Simpson; SUS; Samostiynyky; DPs in Canada; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; future of Ukrainians in Canada.

Sawchuk, Semen
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c167-168 · Item · 5 Dec. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on February 14, 1895 in the village of Vil’kivtsi (??) of Borshchiv povit, Halychyna; his mother Varvara Hrubiy (??), his father was a tkach, was in Austrian army; Semen had 3 brothers and 1 half-sister; his father organized Tovarystvo tverezosti in his village and Tovarystvo dopomohy (?); mother decided to go to Canada because the family did not have enough land for 4 sons; the family left for Canada in 1899; came to Ukraine to visit in 1922 - “Mesionar” published warnings about him; came in 1899 to Winnipeg, then to a small colony “Franklin”, they bought a farm; Hans Valley had a school which Sawchuk went to, the teacher was Polish; first Ukrainian priest in their area was Fr. Dmytriv; Metropolitan Maxim (?); family moved to Saskatchewan in 1908 (a farm 40 miles from Yorkton); French priests served for Ukrainians trying to get rid of the Greek-Catholic Church; Sawchuk learned how to read Ukrainian himself; penname “Semen Matej”(??); Ukrains’kyi holos was started by the Ukrainian teachers (Fr. Vasyl’ Kudryk, Firney (??)); Bishop Budka and Kanadiis’kyi rusyn (later it became Kanadiis’kyi ukrainets’); 1908 - Sheptyckyi’s visit to Canada; “Taini pravyla” of the Catholic priests.

Part 2: Ukrains’kyi holos vs. Ukrains’kyi rusyn; 1916 - 1st Ukrainian Narodnyi Congress in Saskatoon; Bishop Budka; was studying at that time at the bursa (Mohyla Institute); Tovarystvo “Bursuk”; Sawchuk joined the Tovarystvo “Kameniari”; Sawchuk was the 1st Secretary of the Narodnyi Dim in Saskatoon; Julian Stechyshyn; Svystun, money scandal; Dr. Kushnir from BUC and his relations to Svystun; Fr. Mayevs’kyi (??); Archbishop Teodorovych; Metropolitan Lypkivs’kyi.

Part 3: Rada Ukrains’kykh Tserkov; CUC; Kosar on Ukrainian-Canadian Legions; Dr. Datskiv on CUC as Ukrainian government in exile; Tracy Phillips, Simpson and creation of CUC; Svystun; Fr. Kushnir about Svystun as a Catholic; Kosar as a person; SUS; Sawchuk in Ottawa in 1939; Sawchuk got a Lieutenant rank in 1921, during WWII became a Chaplain in 1942, Fr. Symchych as a Chaplain, Fr. Kovalyshyn; Fr. Horoshko; Helen Kozycky; Danylo Skoropads’kyi; coming back to Canada in 6 months; Ivan Teodorovych asked to get another Bishop, so Sawchuk went to Germany after WWII; bringing illegal money to Doroshenko from Samostiinyky; Metropolitan Polikarp; camp of Lysenka (fights between easterners and westerners); Panchuk; Froliak; Dopomohovyi fond in Canada, Kokhan.

Part 4: DPs’ influence on the Ukrainian life in Canada; Fr. Yizhyk, BUC; Pan American Ukrainian Conference in New York in 1946; Syrnyk; CUC supporting Ukrainska Natsionalna Rada and not UHV; Dr. Galan from USA; Vasylyshyn; change of the status of Ukrainians in Canada; future of Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada.

Sametz, Petro
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c164-166 · Item · 28 Dec. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 4, 1883 or 1895 (provides different years in English and Ukrainian) in Golshchava village, Terebovlia povit; his wife was Kateryna Bambukh (?); Orthodox; came to Canada in 1910; finished 4 grades of the Lviv gymnasium; he came to Canada along; his uncles came to Canada in 1896; in 1906 he went to Germany for 11 months to work at a factory to save money for his education; in August 1910 left his village for Canada; he travelled together with Julian Stechyshyn; Hamburg - Quebec - Winnipeg - Dauphin, ship “Prince Albert”; worked on a farm, then railway; in 1913 went to a college, became a teacher; Vasyl Svystun his friend; Ukrainian community in Dauphin: a socialist newspaper Robochyi narod, in 1911 subscribed to Ukrains’kyi holos; Oleksa Shtyk was a choir conductor; tensions with a Greek-Catholic priest; in 1918 Bishop Budka visited their area; inspector Hawryluk (?); the Orthodox Church movement; Fr. Savchuk; Vasyl’ Kudryk the 1st editor of Ukrainskyi holos; Metropolitan Sheptytskyi’s visit; Fr. Rozdol’skyi (?) was sent back to Europe for being married; Sametz started teaching in 1914; WWII; Ukrains’ke Hreko-Pravoslavne bratstvo, Metropolitan Platon, Bishop Oleksandr.

Part 2: Arkhymandryt karpatoros; Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada; Archbishop Oleksandr; Havryil Shevchenko from Ukraine came to him to offer to become a priest; Sametz quit teaching, moved to Saskatoon and in 1920 went first to Winnipeg together with Savchuk, Sartychuk (??), Yarema (??), teacher Shklianka, Julian Stechyshyn, and then to Saint Paul (??) to meet Metropolitan Germanos (??) from a Kyivan Patriarchate; they studied at the Collegium with mostly Greek-Catholics; the Syrian Metropolitan Germanos helping Ukrainians in Canada to create the Orthodox Church; Fr. Savchuk, Prof. Ohienko; Sobor; Arsenych (the 1st Ukrainian lawyer), tensions between Russian and Ukrainian churches over property; Bukovinian Orthodox Church; Archbishop Ivan Teodorovych and Sobor in 1924 - Ukrainization of the church services.

Part 3:In 1923 Sametz came to Canora, SK; his parishes in Manitoba; Kulychkovskyi (??); Fr. Kudryk (??); Dr. Sushko (??); 2 wave of immigration, after the vyzvolni zmahannia; Canadian Communists; Zaporozhan (??); General Sikevych (??); 1933 - Orthodox Church and Dr. Zhuk (??) in the USA; Metropolitan Teodorovych; Sametz worked 3 years in Manitoba, then 3 years in Saskatchewan, then 3 years in BC; used to have a Russian church to work in; 5 years in Edmonton; Ivan Nykyforuk (??); Bishop Budka; Brothership (uprava); Samostiinyky and their relation to the Orthodox Church; SUS.

Part 4: SUMC, Tezhuk (??); 1935 - SUMC Congress in Saskatoon; UNO vs Samostiinyky vs BUC in the 1930s; visit of Konovalets, Sushko; Strilets’ka Hromada in Edmonton; teacher of the “Ridna shkola” Zavadiuk (??); Karpats’ka Ukraina; Stechyshyn; Pavlo Krats (??); Petliura’s murder; helping Ukraine during the Holodomor; General Sikevych (??); WWII - attitude towards Germany; cooperation between Orthodox and Catholics during WWII; in 1938 Sametz moved to Toronto; built church in 1949; Oleksa Derhaliuk (??); DPs, attitudes to previous immigration waves; his relative Sametz.

Part 5: Mel’nykivtsi vs banderivtsi; Bishop Skrypnyk; Sametz returned to Toronto in 1950 and stayed till 1964; Fr. Hlukhaniuk (??) at Niagara Falls; Horodenko school; getting the Russian church in Saskatoon; area Star near Edmonton, Savka the farmer, court case that lasted several years; Orthodox people: Mykhailo Luchkovych; Dr. Mydroban (??); Starchovskyi (??); Yaremko (??); Arsenych (??)

Svarich, Petro
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c160-163 · Item
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Petro Lazarovych (?); choir, soloists; speeches (toasts) during some event dedicated to Svarich; singing Ukrainian songs; Instytut Sv. Ivana in Vegreville (?); Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Svarich was a secretary of several schools.

Part 2: Speeches during an event dedicated to Svarich; Svarich helping DPs; Mnohaia lita song.

Part 3: 1895 - World Exposition in Lviv; Svarich was delegated there as a schoolboy; plays; getting lost in Lviv; Kostiushko and revolution; Ivan Mateiko painted the revolution;Rudolf; was elected a candidate from a radical party (?); serving in an army; 1896 - his Birthday celebration; songs singing; reading memoirs of Zvarich.

Part 4: Svarich about learning English; childhood, school, desire to study; gymnasium.

Part 5: Posmertna promova Zvarycha after his funeral in Narodnyi Dim
Sections of incomprehensible sound starting from 3.02 through 8.55, further through 12.30 and till the end.

Part 6: Singing songs (“Dyvlius’ ia na nebo” and others) with a piano accompaniment - those are the songs that Petro Zvarich recorded at the Conservatory of Prof. Berezenets’. These songs will be performed on February 14 in Victoria (?) by the Society SUMC (?) by Victoria Meletiuk (?) and Morris Lourier (??). Victoria was chosen as a Queen of SUMC in Winnipeg in 1963. She is a known violinist (?), piano-player and dancer. She is currently a student at the Arts Department, at St. John’s Institute. Morri Lourier (?) speaks only French and English but ings Ukrainian songs; he is a conductor of the French choir but takes part in Ukrainian concerts. Songs: “Dumka”, “I sad zatsviv”, “Vladyko neba i zemli”. Songs from the opera “The May Night”; a speech of Ivan Baran.

Part 7: A recording of a Concert; Svarich came to Canada in 1900 from Halychyna; Petro Ostyniuk (??) sings a song in English and Ukrainian; Svarich about his mother’s artistic talents; she wants him to be a priest; he was conscripted in the army and came back in 1899; they went to Canada; in 1903 Basilians settled next to them, and his mother helped them; in 1913 went to visit the youngest daughter they left in the Old Country; in 1915 sold their farm and moved to Edmonton; in 1919 his father died and his mother died in 1935; in 1918, when Ukrainian Orthodox Church was founded in Canada, Svarich and his relatives joined it but his mother preferred to remain Catholic so that she could be buried together with her husband; conflict between his mother and a Catholic priest; mother’s cancer; leaving money for churches; mother’s death and funeral.

Pawluk, Olga
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c159 · Item · 30 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Sagacz, Wolodymyr
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c158 · Item · 5 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 20, 1923 in Monastyrys’ke (??), Buchats’kyi povit; near Zarvanytsia, Podillia, Greek-Catholic; Ukrainian-Polish relations; cooperative movement; Prosvita; went to a gymnasium in Stanislaviv; Patriarch Slipyi, Dukhovna akademiia; bursa Sviatoho Yosafata; Vasyl’ Bybyk (?); Froliak; Karpats’ka Ukraina; his aunt was a Sister-Basilian (?) in USA; WWII; Bolsheviks occupation; pidpillia, Semen Zhyla (??); NKVD; attitude towards German Army.

Part 2: Ukrains’ka dyviziia; Sagacz right after the gymnasium got into the local administration; OUN; dopomohovyi komitet; suspil’nyi opekun; orhanizatsiia Vidrodzhennia; Dr. Pavlyshyn, protyalkohol’nyi hurtok; pidpillia; Erfasung (???) dyviziia; Ukrains’ka natsional’na armiia in 1945, Shandriuk (??) the Commander; Myroslav Proskurnyts’kyi (?); Prokopyshyn; Antin Derbish (?); getting into the English occupation zone; banderivtsi vs mel’nykivtsi; Fr. Bulanych (?), Fr. Lavryk (?); Fr. Prashko (?); Fr. Kushnir; Sagacz ran away from a camp in 1946; Ivan Rusak, Ivan Raskin (?); Dr. Polishchuk; Orest Horodnyts’kyi (?), Kaplun in the camp; polkovnyk Dolyns’kyi (?); Mykhailo Rosliak (?)

Rutich, Katherine
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c157 · Item · 31 Mar. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Came to Canada in 1929 from Ukraine (village Zhulyn, Lviv oblast, Stryi raion) when she was 15; nee Chaban; came to her brother on a farm; moved later to [?]; Robitnycha orhanizatsiia; married there and lived there until 1941; she finished 6 grades of a village school; family was Catholic; her father was deputy chairman (zastupnyk viita); her brother in Canada converted to Orthodox; her route to Canada: Gdansk - London - Halifax - Montreal - Saskatoon. There were 12 children in her family; Mark Polunychka sent her a ticket and she moved to [?], worked there in a hotel; big Ukrainian community; Drama Festival; moving to Victoria with her husband; deportation of Ukrainians in the 1930s; Robitnycha orhanizatsia opened a kitchen soup; Communists; Ukrainian school in Victoria; demise of the Robitnychyi rukh in Victoria.

Romanow, Maria
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c156 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1:She came to Canada, Saskatoon in March 1911 from a Ukrainian village Susny (??); got off the ship in St. John, then went to Winnipeg, worked in Winnipeg in the “Corona” Hotel; then went to Saskatoon and worked in a restaurant; she went to Denmark first, worked there at a farm; when she came to Canada she was 21; WWI, discrimination against Ukrainians in Canada, internment; Russians in her village - a song she sang to them; Myroslav Sichyns’kyi; her husband, Dmytro Romanow, was from the same village but they married in Saskatoon; Bishop Budka’s visit; Orthodox church; Svystun; arrest of Bishop Budka; Ievhen Andrukhovych; Bishop visiting her house 3 times; Ukrainian life in Saskatoon from 1911 on, Narodnyi dim; Vasyl’ Semuk (??); Vasyl’ Svystun; Ukrainian identity; internment of Ukrainians during WWI; Bishop Budka.

Part 2: Bishop Budka; Mohyla Institute; Vasyl’ Svystun; the Stechyshyns brothers; Orthodox Church in Canada; Strilets’ka hromada; OUN; working for Red Cross during WWII; Narodnyi dim; Kosar; Dr. Pavliuchenko; Konovalets’ in Canada; General Sikevych (??); Danylo Skoropads’kyi; BUC; Samostiinyky, Fr. Samchuk; Karpats’ko Ukraina; CUC, Prof. Simpson, Dr. Pavliuchenko; DPs.

Romanow, Joseph R.
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c154-155 · Item · 22 Mar. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: His parents came to Saskatoon from Halychyna (Sushna village) in 1911; parafiia Sv. Yuriia in Saskatoon; Joseph was born on May 5, 1921; he has 2 elder sisters, 2 younger brothers; Joseph finished 8 grades of Ukrainian school; Strilets’ka hromada and UNO in Saskatoon; Pohoretskyi (??); Hryhorovych; Kosar; Bohdan Zelenyi; Dr. Pavliuchenko; his parents joined UNO; Molodi ukrains’ki natsionalisty; Joseph was a pilot of the Air Force during WWII; BUC, SUS; General Kurmanovych (??); Mohyla Institute; working in Novyi Shliakh; Pohorets’kyi (??); Fr. Blazhenko (??); Fr. Yuzyk; Koshyts’; Dr. Matsenko (??); Magera (??); Kapustians’kyi (??); Semen Savchuk; UCSA.

Part 2: Poles and Ukrainians; Ukrainian school - teachers Pryima (??), Kuz’ma (??); Communists in Saskatoon; Karpats’ka Ukraina cause, Komitet dopomohy Karpats’kii Ukraini; Kosar; in 1940 he joined Canadian Air Force; Air Force school in Oshawa; he finished High School and engineering in Saskatoon; stationing with Air Force in Toronto, St. Thomas, Trenton, Vancouver, and others; he went to England in 1943; his military cruises during the WWII; Paul Yuzva (??) from a farm joined the Air Force; Paul Andriichuk (??); Nahnybida; DPs; Bishop Buchko (??); banderivtsi vs mel’nykivtsi; Peter Smelskyi (??).

Part 3: A split between Ukrainians; CUC; Tracy Phillips; Peter Smelskyi (??); Panchuk; DP camps; Prof. Rudnyts’kyi; repatriation from DP camps; Kapusta (??); Kravchuk; Romanow’s wife was also stationed in London; he came back to Canada in 1946; Ukrainian organized life after WWII; UNO; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; support for mel’nykivtsi; Sichovi stril’tsi.

Part 4: Mr. Zelenyi; UCVA; Paul Yuzva (??); Mohyla Institute; Tony Lazarovych (??); Dr. K; Polyshchak (??); Polish Air Force; 1951-1955 he was in headquarters in Ottawa, then went to England; came back in 1957; Zarkovskyi (??); a specially designed airplane, technology advancements; retiring from Air Force in 1973; Ukrainian Engineers Society; multiculturalism policy.

Romaniw, Semen
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c153 · Item · 27 Jan. 1983
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Part 1: Became a member of Ridna Shkola and Prosvita; UNO; meeting with Kokhan in 1948 in Thunder Bay; Koordynatsiinyi Ukrains’kyi Komitet, Natsional’na Rada; CUC; Klish (??); Roshko (??); Petro Basiuk (??); Fr. Izhyk (??); Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy - Sosnovs’kyi (??), Rakhmannyi (??); Homin Ukrainy; Malashchuk (??) came from Europe; Froliak (??) came from England, he was born in Canada but his family sent him to a gymnasium in Stanislaviv, then joined the Canadian Army; Marunchak; Bezkhlibnyk (??); Banderivtsi vs Mel’nykivtsi in Winnipeg; Fond dopomohy and Mrs. Mandryka; Zahariichuk, Dats’kiv; Hlynka created Fond dopomohy; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO; future of Ukrainians in Canada; cursing Petliura, a prayer.

Primak, Walter
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c152 · Item · 30 Mar. 1984
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Part 1: Born in 1904, in Volyn’; came to Canada in 1930; his family was Orthodox; his elder brother stayed in the USA for a long time, and came back in 1920, was conscripted into the Russian Army; William served in the Polish Army in 1925-26; went to Canada; hard times during the Depression; Winnipas; threats of deportation; working on farms near Winnipas; moving to Victoria; work at a factory; working in the Capital Iron Company (??); Walter did not go to school in his village; learned Polish alphabet in the army; learned English in Canada.

Part 2: Incomprehensible, not able to hear anything because of the sound quality

Pizag, Peter
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c151 · Item · 30 Mar. 1982
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Part 1: Born in 1909, in Ukraine; Creek-Catholic; there was Prosvita in their village; he finished 7 grades Ukrainian school in his village; Ukrainians fighting Poles; his brothers left for Canada before WWI; Poles came in 1922-23; Peter came to Canada in 1927, to his brother in Winnipeg, then moved to Regina, worked for CPR for 14 years; then worked in a hotel in BC in 1942; in Regina, there was UNO, Catholic Ukrainian church; Peter belonged to UNO; Communists in Regina; Ukrains’ka natsionalistychna partiia formed after WWII; Ukrainian parish in Victoria after WWII created by Bondar’, Kozachenko, Kohut, Pizag, Panchuk; Communists in Victoria; DPs; he did not work for 4 years during the Depression, life and work during Depression; Pacification in Ukraine.

Part 2: Jews and Ukrainians in his village; his route of emigration: Lviv-Warsaw-Gdansk-Copenhagen-England-Halifax; Bila partiia

Piniuta, Harry
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c149-150 · Item · 5 May 1984
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Part 1: Teaching at a Ukrainian Public School in Sandy Lake rural area, Teacher Ranko (Rankovs’kyi) in 1934-35; ; belonged to CUC, Narodnyi Dim; Stratiichuk (??); SUMC; 2nd wave of immigration; UNO, Pavliuchenko; Samostiinyky; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Piniuta was teaching during WWII; Fr. Hrihoriichuk.

Part 2: CUC activities; WWII - Ukrainian Servicemen Association; Panchuk and DPs; Mr. Yaniv (??); commissions in DP camps; after retirement he wrote a book about Ukrainians in Canada.

Part 3: Born on March 1, 1910 in Elphinstone, Manitoba; his father Dmytro came to Canada when he was 16, with his parents and 2 sisters, they landed in Quebec on July 25, 1900; his mother’s name Anna; they were from the village of Lypkivtsi, Husiatyn district (??); Greek-Catholics; school was organized in 1906, primarily a Ukrainian district; school went down in 1922 and they changed its name to Prince Royal School; bilingual school since 1916; his father subscribed to Ukrains’kyi holod and Kanadiis’ki Rusyny; Rus’ka Knyharnia; parokhia Sviatoho Ivana, Fr. Oleksiy, Fr. Riadkevych (??); teacher Ilya Mykytiuk; relations with the Poles; Orthodox Church in his area; Fr. Andrukhovych.

Part 4: His neighbor Mykola Tkachuk (??); Church Hall; Prosvita, plays, occasional speeches; Krushevych (??); Andrusiak (??); completed his High School education in 1929 due to sickness; in 1933-34 worked in a local store owned by a Ukrainian; Ivanchuk (??); Mrs. Zilych (??) - her husband was involved in Ukrainian movement in Brandon; Dnipro Club (about 20 students belonged to it); teachers Hladiuk, Mykytiuk; Tokar; Tymchak (??); Holyk (??); discrimination against Ukrainians.

Petryshyn, Michael
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c147-148 · Item · 16 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on February 8, 1897 in the Mishanytsia (??) village, Yavoriv district, Lviv region; used to be Greek-Catholic, but now is Orthodox; 10 children in his family; finished the village school using Ukrainian and Polish; Maksymovych the village teacher; “Svoboda” the newspaper coming to the village from Lviv; Polish and Austrian rule in the village; Ukrainians and Jews relations; WWI - Russian army occupied his village; then in 1915 was in the Austrian army (in infantry), in 1918 he went to Austria; for 2 years he was a POW (in a camp near Kamianets-Podilskyi); being in a hospital in Krakow; his brother was in the Petliura army; he came to Canada in 1928; his cousin sent him a ticket from Canada; Poland-England (London - Liverpool) - Halifax, ship “Scythia”; worked for CNR during 6 months; moved to Saskatoon and became a member of the Strilets’ka hromada in 1930; Kosar; about 70 members of the Strilets’ka hromada; UNO and Strilets’ka hromada.

Part 2: Samostiinyky, UNO; Svystun, Stechyshyn; General Kurmanovych (??); Kosar; Konovalets’ and Mel’nyk in Canada before WWII; Het’mantsi; Communists in Canada; Budniuk (??); Ptryshyn got Canadian citizenship (?) in 1942 - his witnesses were Hnatyshyn & Tkachuk; WWII, UNO; CUC; BUC; Stratiichuk (??) - the Head of the Orthodox community; changing his religion to Orthodox; he left UNO; Pavliuchenko; Vasylyshyn; Petryshyn was the Head of the Strilets’ka hromada for 1 year; Strilets’ka hromada’s Hall; UNO vs Strilets’ka hromada; UNO’s connection with Europe; Novyi shliakh; UPA members joining UNO after WWII; Novyi shliakh moving to Winnipeg; DPs, Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Banderivtsi vs Mel’nykivtsi, Conference in Krakow.

Part: 3 On April 17, 1928 he arrived to Halifax; DPs; Kapish (??); his personal life - in 1930 was incorrectly implicated in murder, till 1962 was under suspicion, in 1963 was found not guilty and the case was dismissed.