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Lapchuk, Ann
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c125-126 · Item · 6 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Her parents were from Halychyna; after arriving to Canada her father stayed in the Port Arthur’s area; her father was conscious of his Ukrainianness; Depression hardships; evening Ukrainian school in Canada, teacher Drabyk (??), girls mandoline group; Kravchuk; Panchyshyn; she was sent to Winnipeg for a 6-months instruction and then moved to Regina; she was teaching at a Ukrainian school then; proud to be Ukrainian in Canada; went to visit Ukraine in 1956 (??); teaching in Thunder Bay; Winnipeg College Fond (?????) in 1936 - Hutsuliak, Prokopchuk (the Director of the College); daily regiment, classes, and social life at the College; her father-in-law was the founder of the Workers Benevolent organization in Regina.

Part 2: Political education (awareness of the USSR, Ukrainian SSR); in 1922 they collected money to assist the starving in the USSR; Lobay and Kobzey leaving LFTA; John Kolasky (his book and statements); Communist Party of Canada (CPC); loss of the property of the Communist organizations in Canada; LFTA and Stalin’s ally, Hitler; Association of Ukrainian Canadians; collecting money for helping USSR during WWII; CUC creation and LFTA; LFTA membership; Workers Benevolent Association (she became a member in 1928 when she was 16); DPs and their impact on LFTA; visit to Ukraine in 1956, official delegation.

Part 3: Visit to Ukraine in 1956; DPs about the USSR; Ukrainian Labor Temple changed its name into Ukrainian Culture Centre; LFTA concerns.

Lashin, Sam
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c121-122 · Item · 4 Apr. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on August 4, 1911 in a village in Western Ukraine, he is Greek-Catholic; finished 8 grades of the village school; his father was the wealthiest man in the village; Sam had 2 brothers, one of whom was killed by the Poles in 1947; he came to Canada in 1937; relations between Ukrainians and Poles; Halyts’ka armiia; his father was in Austrian army; relations between Jews and Ukrainians; Pacification events; Lashin belonged to OUN, Hrabets’ (??) involved him in OUN; Sam arrested by Poles; leaving for Canada.

Part 2: Leaving for Canada; his brother went to Canada in 1927 and helped him; way to Canada: Gdynia - London - Halifax; in Winnipeg (meeting his brother on a farm); getting a job with a friend for a Lumber company (??); company sending him to school; going to a Catholic school.

Part 3: Hard life in Canada; his wife is Bronislava Tatewich (??), born in Canada; married in 1940; getting a contract job at an armor plant (??); became a Canadian citizen in 1948; Robitnychyi Dim, Narodnyi Dim; Ukrainian Communists; Strilets’ka Hromada after the WWII; UNO Hall created in 1947-48; Het’mantsi; UNO Hall out of a Japanese temple; DPs, Banderivtsi vs Mel’nykivtsi; Liha Vyzvolennia; frictions between the Nationalists and Ukrainian church (“Natsia ponad use!”).

Part 4: UNO’s membership; CUC creation; future of Ukrainians in Canada.

Lisczynski, Wasyl
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c123 · Item · 2 Apr. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born - unclear when or where; Creek-Catholic; his father got married and went to the USA (to Mississippi) in 1913, then the WWI began, and father got sick and died in USA; Moskvofily; Wasyl took part in vyzvol’ni zmahannia, Ukrains’ka armiia; he went to Canada in 1926 - cost him $500; came to Winnipeg; Ukrains’kyi holos; working on a farm in Saskatoon; working on CPR; Communists and Robitnychyi Dim in Winnipeg; discrimination against Ukrainians; his wife came to Canada during the Depression (nee Tsaps’ka (??)); relations between Ukrainians and Poles; life in Kenora.

Part 2: Work on CPR; moving to Victoria after WWII; Ukrainian Catholic church in Victoria; Fr. Makukh (??); CUC; future of Ukrainians in Canada.

Lobay, Stepan and Maria
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c124 · Item · 3 Apr. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on November 24, 1904 in Halychyna (Sokal’s’kyi povit, village of Orzvyn (???)); his father was quite wealthy; Stepan had 2 brothers and 2 sisters; relations between Ukrainian and Jews in Orzvyn; vyzvol’ni zmahannia; life under the Poles; Lobay left for Canada in 1927; many people from his village went to Winnipeg; working in Osagan (??), Ontario during winter; married in 1929 and moved to Vancouver; UNO, Communists, Prosvita in Winnipeg; Vasyl’ Pelekh - his shvager; Lobay went to Vancouver to his sister; Prosvita in Vancouver; Catholic parish, then Orthodox parish (Svystun); Samostiinyky; Communists and their Hall; Strilets’ka hromada; UNO; Prosvita Hall; Mr. Duda - the Head of UNO; Mr. Hankalo (??) from Edmonton; Hankalo, Khomiak, Butsiy (??); women’s section in UNO; UNO and Samostiinyky; Fr. Dobko (??); new calendar in 1930; DPs.

Part 2: DPs and frictions with them; Mel’nykivtsi and UNO; Liha Vysvolennia Ukrainy;

Lobay’s wife’s nee is Puchko, she is from Snaityn povit, Green-Catholic, her father was a butcher, in her village there were 4 churches; Jews and Ukrainians in her village; vyzvol’ni zmahannia, Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; she finished the village school; her family had a relative in Winnipeg and joined her in October 1924; she later worked in a bakery, as a nurse, and dietician; Ukrainian life in Winnipeg in the 1920s; Samostiinyky in Vancouver; Prosvita, UNO; she was the Head of the UNO’s women’s section; Petro Mel’nychuk; Svystun; Fr. Dobko, Fr. Batman (??); Fr. Didyk (??); discrimination against Ukrainains; UNO buying the Japanese Hall; government taking away Communists’ Halls; CUC.

Martiniuk, Frank (Doctor)
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c127-128 · Item · 16 Feb. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on September 21, 1916 in Chapleau (???), Ontario; his present wife is Jean Bennett (??), was married twice, has 6 children; his parents were from Ternopil’; his father came to Canada just before 1914, settled down in Northern Ontario; eventually moved to Windsor; he is Greek-Catholic; went to public school and High School, attended Ukrainian school classes; he belonged to Ukrainian National Federation and Ukrainian Youth Organization; Fr. Olenchuk was a priest when Fran was an altar boy - St. Vladimir and Olga Ukrainian church in Windsor; Het’mantsi; Orthodox group in Windsor; Frank played in the school orchestra, Harry Pavoroznyk (??) came from Europe; discrimination against Ukrainians - episode with the school principal; went to a Medical school in 1936, graduated in 1942; Danylo Skoropadskyi coming to Windsor; his uncle came after the war, joined UNO; Zorianyi (??) was a President for many years; Zeleniv (??); Communists and Labor Temple in Windsor; MUN (?) Convention in Toronto; UNO branch in Windsor: Taras Martyniuk, Joseph Ievorsky (??), Dosklach (??); Kosar came to Windsor several times; Mr. Hontar’ from Toronto; Senator Yuzyk; Frank’s 40th Anniversary of MUN speech; Pavliuk from UNO; Frank’s contacts with Ukrainians overseas - Veterans Association.

Part 2: During his London medical school time - associated with the Symphony orchestra and Canadian Officers Training Corp, out of Ukrainian life; return to Windsor, got involved in Ukrainian affairs; met Panchuk and Froliak in London; Kushnir in London; Danylo Skoropadskyi; CUC; Dr. Kysylevskyi (??); Tracy Phillips (??); Frank supported Froliak; Fr. Kushnir; coming to Hamilton, getting away from Ukrainian Catholic church; Dr. Pylypiuk in Hamilton, starting a medical practice; DPs coming to Canada; him as a President of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee in 1967-68.

Part 3: Kiries (??), Bohdan Korchewskyi (??); Dr. KLymasz; Pavliuk; Polaznyk in Ukrainian National Federation; Centennial Project, Centennial Book, Shevchenko Foundation covering the expenses; Yaremovych (??) from CUC offered him to be a delegate to Ukrainian World Congress in Toronto - becoming nominated for executive positions; a course on accounting to be a Treasure; English as the language of the Congress financial statement; Frank as the President of the Ukrainian Professional Business Club of Hamilton.

Part 4: Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans Legion Club; Smolskyi (??), Klymasz, Lazarovych; Ukrainian Research Foundation, Steve Pavliuk; Panchuk tried to incorporate all Ukrainian veterans; War Veterans Association for newcomers; 1946 convention of the Ukrainian veterans, Panchuk, John Yuzyk; CUC in Hamilton after WWII; John Olchary (??); Ukrainian-Jewish Foundation (??) - becoming its Chairman through Pavliuk; a publication about contributions of Ukrainians in the WWI and WWII - Kecherovskyi (??) gathering information; a book by Dr. K (??); Ukrainian-Canadian Professional and Business Club in Hamilton started in 1965, Dr. Pylypiuk.

Marunchak, Michael
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c129-130 · Item · 31 May 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Liha Politychnykh v’iazniv; Tovarystvo Politv’iazniv; Mel’nyk, OUN; Pavlykovs’kyi; Bishop Buchko (??); UPA sviatkuvannia 1948; visiting concentration camps looking for political prisoners; Martynets’, Mykhailo Bazhans’kyi; “persha linia” vs “druha liniia” in camps; influence of the camps of Ukrainians; Canada as a destination country; Marunchak has a brother Vasyl’ in Canada; pan Tliuka (???) from UNO; DPs in Canada; Maruhcnak became a member of Narodnyi Dim; Viktor Mazanets’ (??) came to Canada; Marunchak arrived to Winnipeg; he was a member of Liha Vyzvolennia Ukrainy.

Part 2: His membership in various organizations; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; CUC, opposition to CUC; Mel’nykivtsi vs Banderivtsi; the nationalism question; Orthodox community.

Part 3: Ukrainian churches; CUC discussion; Uchytel’s’ka orhanizatsiia in 1907 (??).

Melnyk, Petro
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c131 · Item · 30 Mar. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 26, 1912 in Halychyna (Buchachtskyi povit, village of Spilka (??)), Greek-Catholic; he had 2 brothers and 3 sisters; moskvofily, Tovarystvo im. Kachkovskoho; “Prosvita” in the village; vyzvol’ni zmahannia - Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; Jews in the village and relations with them; he went to a school in the village first and then a gymnasium in Buchach; in 1933 he finished gymnasium; everyday life during the Depression; theological seminaries; in 1935, he went to the Lviv University, university life and political situation.

Part 2: University life; went to Zagreb to study; student circles in the gymnasium; gymnasium disciplines; Mariis’ka druzhyna (??); he became a member of OUN; Pacification events; rusofil’s’ki nastroi during the WWI, Austrian politics.

Mykytiuk, Bogdan A.
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c216 · Item · 25 Jan. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on August 6, 1929 in Canada; his father came around 1912-1913 to Winnipeg and then brought his wife in 1927; Ivan Palka; Mrs. Jennice; Andrew Sementiuk (??) - mill workers; dangerous jobs; 1926-27 - second wave of Ukrainian immigrants; the Rudyks; the Shtokols; he is Orthodox; Fr. Nebesnyi (??); Dyviziinyky from Italy; Ukrainians-French people relations; Savchuk’s visit; Bohdan Dubas (??); women helping Ukrainians overseas; Montese (??) POW camp; Makitra (??); moving to Toronto in 1948; DPs; UNO Hall; his wife is Canadian-born; Legion Hall.

Mykytiuk, Dmytro
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c132-133 · Item · 4 Dec. 1982 - 18 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on August 10, 1897; Greek-Catholic; came to Canada in 1930 (to Winnipeg); was arrested for 3 months by the Poles for belonging to the UVO; he was one of those who created UVO in his own povit; in Canada he joined the Strilets’ka hromada in 1938 (Kosar, Vasylyshyn - the Head of Strilets’ka hromada in Winnipeg); Het’mantsi (Nazaruk, Petrushevych, Bobers’kyi); Bishop Khomyshyn; Samostiinyky; Pohorets’kyi and Shliakh; he was a Secretary of the CUC; Prof. Simpson; CUC creation; BUC (Bratstvo ukrains’kykh katolykiv); confiscation of the Communists Hall; DPs and their influence; mel’nykivtsi vs banderivtsi; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy in 1949; he left the Sichovi stril’tsi organization; Kosar; WWII - Home Defence in Winnipeg.

Part 2: Born in selo Rakivchyk (??), povit Kolomyia; came to Canada in May 1930; in 1914 went to the Ukrains’ki sichovi stril’tsi who later became Ukrains’ka halyts’ka armiia; Beresteis’kyi myr; Tsentral’na Rada; Denikin; 1920 - the front against the Poles; Mykytiuk crossed the border in 1920 and stayed home till 1930; he was khorunzhyi; he built Narodnyi Dim in the village; Sichovi stril’tsi against the tsarist Russian troops in the Carpathians in 1914-1917; Het’man Skoropads’kyi and Germans; polk sichovykh stril’tsiv Konoval’tsia; Poles sending the Petliura soldiers (i.e. Sichovi stril’tsi) to the concentration camps; arrived to Canada (Quebec city) from Germany had to stay on a farm near Saskatoon but ran away to Viniard (??) station; then in 1932 moved to Winnipeg and worked on a Ukrainian milk factory (??); immediately joined the Strilets’ka hromada (over 100 members); sending money to Ukraine; publishing UVO’s newspaper Shliakh; UNO; Kosar as the Head; Petrushevych sent Nazaruk and Bobers’kyi to raise money for propaganda against France and England to acknowledge Halychyna; Ukrainian Communists in Canada; WWII, Hitler and Stalin’s pact; CUC; Vasylyshyn; Denych (??); Orhanizatsia ukrains’kykh buvshykh voiakiv created by those dissatisfied with the Strilets’ka hromada; Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans Association after the WWII.

Part 3: Bohdan Panchuk; 141 Branch of Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans Association in 1946; Budka - the Head; Stefan Bilins’kyi (??); helping DPs; UCC in USA; Konovalets’ - Mel’nyk - Kvytkovs’kyi (??) - Hnatiuk from Philadelphia; Kokhan (the Head of CUC); Dr. Mandryka and his wife; Kaiba (??); Fr. Kushnir; Yarynovych (??); Izhyk (Editor of Postup); Kyryliuk as the Head of CUC’s branch in Winnipeg; future of Ukrainians in Canada; new organizations of DPs; Fr. Kushnir.

Nahorniak, Nick
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c215 · Item · 2 Jun. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on November 28, 1911 in Montreal; his parents came to Canada in 1910 from Halychyna; they lived in Sidney for 10 years in coal mines, but then moved to Montreal; Ukrainian Catholic Church; Fr. John; Het’mantsi Club; St. Jean parade (??); Prosvita; Communists in Sidney; Fr. Krasyts’kyi (??); UNO appeared in Montreal; Fr. Joan (??); Nick went to Army in 1943, was overseas; Marunchak; Nick worked in a slaughterhouse; his wife is Nikeferuk (??), Veronica; DPs; Church celebrations; Nick belongs to the Canadian Ukrainian Legion; Golden Age Club (its Head is Havryliuk (?)); Fr. Haimenovych (??).

Nemilowich, Myron
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c134 · Item · 29 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Born on November 28, 1910 in Drohobych; Greek-Catholic; his father came to Canada (Winnipeg) in 1926; his father’s brothers were in Canada before that; Myron had 5 brothers; his mother stayed in the Old Country and father remarried in Canada; Myron came to Canada in 1927; Myron worked in a shop; he belonged to the Robitnychyi Dim because his family belonged to it; Labay; discrimination against Ukrainians; he married in 1939 (wife’s nee Oryskevych); DPs; Myron belonged for 2 years to Workers Benevolent Association; he has 6 children; DPs; his cousin belonged to UPA.

Olynyk, Roman
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c135 · Item · 14 Jun. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: His pseudonym was Roman Rakhmannyi (Rakhman in Arabic = powerful), he supported Ukrainian Nationalist movement against German Nazism; born in December 1918; his father-in-law was a sotnyk of Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armia; his father was at the Italian and Serbian Fronts; Roman finished High School, gymnasium, graduated from the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Academy; has a PhD from Montreal University (?); Ridna shkola in Rohatyn; mytropolyt Sheptyts’kyi turned the gymnasium in a Theological Seminary; his patriotism at the gymnasium; priests in Ukraine; relations between Ukrainians and Jews, Jews in Halyts’ka armiia.

Part 2: Jews and Ukrainians; WWII events; OUN, Stets’ko; Stepan Bandera; OUN fraction; Sushko; Baranovs’kyi; Konovalets’; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Knysh; Mel’nyk, mel’nykivtsi; banderivtsi.

Olynyk, Stephen
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c214 · Item · 31 May 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on July 21, 1923 in Montreal; his wife is Olga Stanko; he is Ukrainian Catholic; his parents came to Canada in 1907; he is the Mayor since November 6, 1978; he was a Police officer for 28 years; Ukrainian school, teacher Kovaliv (??); Het’mantsi; Skoropads’kyi’s visit; WWI, refugees; Associated United Ukrainians of Canada, Federation of Russian Canadians; Prosvita; Communists and their Temple Association; drama groups - plays from Ukraine; Avramenko’s film “Natalka-poltavka”; Karpats’ka Ukraina; 1952 - anti-Communist squad, John Buchun - Police Lieutenant (??) fighting the Communists, his son being infiltrated into the Communist circles; USSR raising money in Canada for their spies activities; a Moscow scheme with the Taras Shevchenko monument in Toronto; Svystun in Montreal; during WWII he served in Canada, Ukrainian Canadians in the Air Forces; Priests: Fr. Tymochko (??); Fr. Paul Hemko (??); Fr. Jean (??); Fr. Pasichnyk; Fr. Kushnir; Het’mantsi dissolving in Montreal before WWII; he belonged to the Ukrainian Businessmen and Professional Association.

Part 2: Olynyk’s parish leaders: Zvyzdovych (??) (Olynyk’s godfather); George Chaika (??); Konstantine Stanovich (??); Prosvita Hall was sold; DPs and stories about ungrateful DPs; being elected as a Mayor in 1978, re-elected in 1982; Wagner; Mulrooney (??); his activities as a Mayor, English language in the French Province, efficient savings for the city budget; his father came to Canada from Kryvtsia, Borshchiv povit, and his mother was born in Hermetivka (??); his wife was born in Montreal.

Panchuk, Gordon R.B.
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c136-139 · Item · 4 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Saskatchewan in 1915; formation of CUC and its 2 Committees; Het’mantsi; UNO; Bosyi (??); URO (Ukrains’ka Robitnycha orhanizatsia); BUC; SUS; trip of Konovalets’ to Canada; Stechyshyn, Svystun; Lazarovych; Strilets’ka hromada; the Stechyshyn brothers - narodovtsi; Mohyla Institute; Farmars’ke zhyttia; Robitnychi visti; Peter Lazarovych; Ukrains’kyi holos; St. John’s Institute; Savchuk; Svystun; Bishop Teodorovych; Fr. Maievs’kyi ordained by Lypkivs’kyi; church disputes; Pavliuchenko; Kosar; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Mel’nyk (??); Prof. Phillips; Makohin (??); Davydovych from UNO; Kysylevs’kyi.

Part 2: Kosar; Gerych (??); Tracy Phillips; Kushnir; BUC vs SUS; Liha katolyts’kykh zhinok; Korostovyc (??) - Minister of External Affairs for Skoropadskyi; Savchuk; British Imperial investments in Ukraine; Datskiv; UHVR; CUC; DPs; Arsenych, Stechyshyn; Corconal (??) and his book; Korostovic (??); Bosyi; SUS; UNO; Svystun; Constable Petrovsky (??); Zwarych; Iatskovych (??); Panchuk went overseas in WWII; military operations.

Part 3: Datskiv; Ludwig Voitsekhovsky (??); CUC; BUC; Kohut; UPSA (??); Kozicky; Refugee Fund; pastor Kuziv (??); Bishop Buchko (??); Panchuk was in the Intelligence; Korostovic (??); Fr. Savchuk, Fr. Horoshko; Red Cross and Ukrainian-Canadian Relief Fund; Seretiuk (??), an Agricultural expert; Savchuk against Panchuk; Iaremovych (??), the 1st secretary of CUC; Fr. Urbanovych (??) from Winnipeg; CCG(??) people.

Part 4: UCVA (??); Service Club; Emily Panchuk (??); Ms. Kozicky (??); Captain Karasevych (??); Sergeant Voykovskyi (??); Ukrainian-Canadian Service Association; Ex-Servicemen’s Association; Pelekh (??); Strilets’ka hromada; John Yuzyk; helping refugees; Zahariychuk (??) was a het’manets’; Ukrainian student Kliuchevskyi (??); Froliak; Symchych (??); Fr. Kushnir visiting DP camps; CUC; Ukrains’kyi dopomohovyi komitet; Hlynka; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi; Nahnybida (??); Grenko (??); Oparenko; Sal’s’kyi; Shymovs’kyi; Davydovych; John Iarenko (??).

Part 5: Panchuk returning from England to Canada; UCVA (??); Panchuk presenting the Memorandum; Hlynka; Karasevych; Oparenko; Sal’s’kyi; CCG; going to Europe for the second time with a relief mission as its Director; Dontsov; Dmytro Derek (??); Kosar; Kushnir; Halan (??); Korostovic; Kosar was making decisions for Kushnir; CUC, Balan; Datskiv; Filby (??); Daisy (??), a Canadian Ambassador; Kysylevskyi; Boiars’kyi (??).

Part 6: CUC; UNO; BUC; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Koval’s’ka (??); Panchuk; Balan; Yaremovych; Khraplyvyi (??); Ukrainian Bureau (??); Panchuk studying at the University in London; Shtopa (??) from Karpats’ka Ukraina.

Part 7: Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox church; refugees; Panchuk; Polikarp (??); Church in London.

Pankiw, Joseph
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c140-141 · Item · 22 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: UVV; Pankiw in the German army (Waffen SS); he was an instructor of secret divisions in Lviv; Proclamation on June 30, dividing mel’nykivtsi and banderivtsi; Nahtigal and Shukhevych in Lviv; mass murder of prisoners by the Soviets in Lviv; Dr. Sokolovs’kyi - banderivs’kyi diiach; Pankiw was released from prison by Sheptyts’kyi; visiting Sheptyts’kyi; Wehrmacht officers; Shukhevych; General Hryhorenko.

Part 2: WWII - Pankiw at the front, surrendering to the French Army; going to Vietnam and returning back to Europe in 1946; Dresden bombings; Ukrainian National Army - General Smovskyi (??); coming to Regensburg - was no accepted to a refugee camp; life in the Regensburg camp - banderivtsi over there; Pankiw was shef okruhy viis’kovoi in Regensburg; camps within DP camp (banderivtsi, mel’nykivtsi, UNR); leaving for Canada through his wife’s brother, Dr. Omel’ko in 1950; Pankiw’s brother Ivan and his wife-banderivka (Case of the 59); banderivtsi in Canada (Mel’nyk, Romaniv, Hnatyshyn); samostiinyky; UNO; Mykytiuk; Vasylyshyn; Kosar.

Part 3: Kosar; negative attitudes towards the 3rd wave of immigration; Kokhan; Fr. Kushnir; Iaremovych; Kushnir’s will contested (court case); Dr. Kal’ba (??); Fr. Dobriians’kyi (??); Hermaniuk; Fr. Ivan Tataryn; Pankiw did not belong to any party in Canada because of their fights; Dr. Datskiv; Mandryka; Zahariichuk (het’manets’, CUC secretary); discrimination against Ukrainians in Canada; future of Ukrainians in Canada.

Part 4: Refugees in Bavarian town Avrsburg (??); Mrs. Koshyts’; national language in church services, translating Ukrainian services into English; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO, Yuzyk; UNO; Buvshi ukrains’ki voiaky (Mykytiuk its Head, Pankiw and others members); Mytropolitan Hermaniuk and Poland.

Pawluk, Myroslava
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c143 · Item · 30 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

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.

Pawluk, Stephan
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c144-146 · Item · 25 Nov. 1982 - 21 Apr. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on February 13, 1910 in Crawford, Alberta; married in 1937; he is Orthodox; High School education and technical training; he was growing in a district of Shandro dominated by Russian Orthodox church - little Ukrainian identity in the area; SUS; students’ club in Smoky Lake; Communists attacking Orthodox (leaders Chubar, Romaniuk, Garenchuk (??)); Kostiuk; Great Big Meeting (Orthodox + 2 Protestant priests) in a Hall where Pavliuk was a janitor; Dr. Rowford (??); Sichovi stril’tsi; he taught dance in Smoky Lake; Mundare as the Catholic centre; Catholic National Hall; Catholics vs Orthodox; a meeting in Hamilton in 1935; Inspector Gorets’kyi (??) in his High School; Novyi shliakh; Ukrains’kyi holos; in 1934 he went to Toronto; Vasyl’ Bonarovs’kyi (??); UNO; Kosar; Matsenko (??); Nationalism question; Lord Gesco (?); Pavliuk came back to Canada in 1946; UNO Convention in Montreal.

Part 2: UNO Convention in Montreal; WWII - pro-German sentiments in Ukrainian community; Kosar; Pavliuk left Canada in 1937; he was at the Spanish War, went to Ukraine to pick up wheat for Spanish Communists, loading a ship in Odessa; hiding Shevchenko book on a ship; Ukrainian Service Club in London; Pavliuk on the radar, FIU (??); he settled in Toronto after returning from WWII; CUC Committees; organizing the Ukrainian Veterans’ Branch; UNO Convention in Toronto; a plot against Kishins’kyi (??) and Magera (??) to not let Magera to become a Head of UNO.

Part 3: Konovalets’; opening a Bureau of Information about Ukraine; OUN; Gesco (?); CUC; UCVA convention; Panchuk; branches of UCVA; UCVA helping newcomers; DPs; Ms. Kysylevs’ka; DPs-mel’nykivtsi; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; banderivtsi; Panchuk after the WWII; creation of CUC - Frof. Corkonel (??); Prof. Simpson; UNO needed CUC to save it; Samostiinyky, Pavliuchenko.

Part 4: Ukrainian Canadian Research Foundation; UNO vs SUS; Instytut Hrushevskoho in Edmonton; he “became” a Canadian in London; Ukrainian Club in London; during CUC convention in Winnipeg celebrating 50th Anniversary of Ukrainians in Canada led to Ukrainian Canadian Research Foundation; publishing a newsletter, engaging Dr. Markevych (??) for finding materials; Pawluk convinced Dr. Kro write a History of Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada; sponsoring the publication through the Veterans’ Association; Ukrainian Communism went down after the WWII; downfall of the Het’mantsi after the WWII; destruction of Magera (??).

Part 5: Ukrainian Student National Organization (?); Edward Blazhenko (??); Pawluk was involved with UNO from 1934 (co-founder); John Stagryn (??); Molodi ukrains’ki natsionalisty (MUN); decentralizing MUN; Eastern Provincial Executive; Senator Yuzyk; Sushko creating cells, Saskatoon cell; nationalism as freeing Ukraine, Dontsov; UNO members - William Voynarovs’kyi (??), Oleh Hoiday (??); discrimination against Ukrainians; John Kyshyns’kyi (??) executive of UNO; Savchuk in Toronto; Magera (??) in Edmonton; strong Convention in Toronto; Kosar left UNO; Pawluk organized a Telegraphy School (??) in Toronto; students of that school.

Part 6: Telegraphy School description; Michael Vladyka; UCSA, Panchuk; John Stagrin (??); UCVA, organizing it with his wife; competing choirs in Toronto at a Music Festival; Pawluk organizing that festival; jealousy of other Ukrainian organizations; Prof. Lutskyi (??) came after Prof Share (??) to University of Toronto and UCVA helped him to purchase a complete Ukrainian library for the Slavic Department; establishing a Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the UofT; creating UCVA; History of Ukrainian Settlements - Dr. K; Mr. Makohon (??) in the USA; Ukrainian Information Bureau in London.