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Wowk, Lev
CA BMUFA 0021-T-W-2008.024.c200-201 · Item · 19 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on July 14, 1914 (??) in a village of Myrnovets’ (??), Ternopil’ region; Greek-Catholic; his father participated in vyzvol’ni zmahannia; returned from a POW camp in 1921, and in 1928 went to Canada; Lev went to Canada in 1930 (Warsaw - Gdynia - ???); found a job of a simster (??); Strilets’ka Hromada; protses Romana Bidy (??); reasons for Ukrainian emigration; creating UNO in Toronto, Kosar, Pavliuchenko, Guliai (??), Zelenyi, Vasylyshyn, Hryhorovych, Hlynka; Kupchenko (??); Mykyta Romaniuk (??); Romaniuk; Kornylo Magera (??); Karpats’ka Ukraina; Aviation school (??); Stephan Pavliuk, Ievhen Stavryk, Tarnovyi (??) came in 1934, organizing a Telegraph School (??).

Part 2: The Telegraph School (??); Pavliuk and Tarnovyi left; then Oleksa Shestovs’kyi (??), Zalishchuk (??), Ambroziy Shestovs’kyi (??), Mykhailo Kalyniuk (??) - created in 1937 an aviation school (??); Petro Antokhii (??) donated his own commercial airplane; when WWII started, Zalishchuk and Ladyka were the first instructors in the Canadian Air Forces; 14 pilots from that school joined the Air Forces; UNO vs Het’mantsi; Bosyi (??); Tracy Phillips; UNO vs BUC; Fr. Kushnir; creation of CUC; SUS; Tracy Phillips; Kushnir & Kosar; Stechyshyn; Savchuk; Vasyl Burianyk (??); Ruryk (??); DPs; Samostiinyky & DPs; MUN; Kosar; Pavliuchenko; Tracy Phillips; George Simpson; Kirkconnell (??); CUC creation was prompted by the government.

Part 3: Choosing the Head of CUC; 1st and 2nd Congresses of CUC; 1946 - CUC Congress in Toronto; Wowk was in Army in 1945; confiscation of the Communist properties; discussing during the Congress what to do with the DPs; Panchuk; Froliak; Wowk wrote Froliak’s speech for the 1st Congress; Kokhan and CUC; Kushnir; Vasylyshyn and Dopomohovyi Fond in Europe; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi (??)-Davydovych (??)-Kysylevs’kyi (??); Turans’kyi (??) created the Club Ukrains’kykh voiakiv in London, not Panchuk.

Part 4: Panchuk; Davydovych from UNO; Dr. K; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi from OUN; Novyi shliakh moving from Edmonton to Saskatoon; DPs & Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy, banderivtsi vs melnykivtsi; Zahariichuk (??); Kokhan (??); Ivanchuk; Mandryka (??); Vasylyshyn; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO, Pohorets’kyi, Yuzyk; Kosar was negative towards it.

Babiuk, John
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c008.A · Item · 6 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Born on November 18, 1901 in Bukovyna. Orthodox Christian. Was conscripted in a Romanian army. There were 6 children in the family. His sister was in Canada (in Regina) by the time he returned from the army, and he joined her in 1930. He was a member of the Strilets’ka Hromada (Ukrainian War Veteran Association). Interviewer asks about people from a photo in a book (Kozak, Veselovsky, Kuzyk, Babej, Abramovych, Kukhar, Semiuk, Symotiuk). Orahnizatsia Ukrains’kykh samostiinykiv and its relation to the Strilets’ka Hromada. Het’mantsi and Strilets’ka Hromada. Strilets’ka Hromada owned a Hall. A rift between Bukovynians and Halychynians; Orthodox vs. Greek-Catholics. Samostiinyky used to have a nice Hall and small church.

His wife came to Canada in 1922. Her brothers came to Canada first and brought her over (sending an affidavit). She was born in Bukovyna; Orthodox faith. Worked on a farm.

Behun, Paul
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c011 · Item · 5 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 7, 1927 in Coniston. His father came to Canada in 1913.
Ukrainian community in Coniston. Mr.Khmara, Mr. Veselen’kyi. Fed’ Bihun (??); Iurko Riabyi. The first priest was Vasyl’ Pidpivchak (???). Kaplytsia was built in 1928 when a Catholic church was started being built. Robitnychyi Dim. Father Kominatskyi (???). Mr. Khmara bought the Robitnychyi Dim for $700 so that the building would not be transferred to any other organization outside the community. Discrimination against Ukrainians. Ukrainian women on the Church committee. Father Verats’kyi (???). Father Karapyts’kyi.

Part 2: Father Karapyts’kyi from 1950 through 1970; Ukrains’ke natsional’ne ob’iednannia; Orest Savchyk (??); Father Pryima (??); Father Karakuz (??); Ukrainske Natsional’ne ob’iednannia; CUC; Communists; Father Elatskyi (???); Church life.

Boychuk, Alexander
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c015 · Item · 25 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Born on March 22, 1903 in a Ukrainian village of Horodenka. Came to Canada in 1920, to Montreal. Then went back and again came back in 1922, to Montreal again. Worked in a mine in Timmins. In 1930 changed a job (club store???). Communists. Tkatchuk.
His wife is Maria Kunin (??)
Prosvita; DPs

Boyko, Nick
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c017 · Item · 27 Jul. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in October 1887 (???). Came to Canada in 1910. Local Ukrainian Hall named “Zoria”. Financing Pidkarpats’ka Ukraina. Local Catholic priests. Shuns’kyi (???). Ukrainians-Communists. Local churches. Catholics vs Orthodox. Three separate “Prosvita” Societies. UNO. Murder of Petliura in 1926.

Part 2: Hitler and Ukraine’s hopes; DPs; Catholics vs Orthodox.

Davidovich, Stephen
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c028-029 · Item · 17 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on January 11, 1913 in Stryi, Alberta; his father came to Canada “na stolittia” and mother came later, in about 1907. He is Orthodox. Went to a Ukrainian school. Finished school in Edmonton, then studied at the Alberta College. Worked in a bank in 1929. Same year he went to the USA to study at a University. Catholic Ukrainian church in Stryi; Communists-Ukrainians; Instytut Hrushevs’koho in Edmonton; Petro Zvarych. Studying at the largest Catholic University in New York (graduated in 1935); life of Ukrainians in the USA vs Canada; Kyslevs’kyi; Kosar; a talk with Konovalets’; in 1937 went to England and Rome to work for a Ukrainian Bureau; a meeting with Colonel Mel’nyk; Stepan Pavliuk; Dr. Kyslevs’kyi and the Ukrainian Bureau (sponsored by Makohin); Ukrainian National Information Service; Dokovych (???); Voyt (??), Editor of Nineteen Century and After.

Part 2: Publishing his articles in journals; Kosar and Hranovskyi (???); Meeting with Mel’nyk; contacts with UNO; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Fr. Voloshyn; Konovalets’; Chris Phillips (???) from English intelligence; CUC; in 1941 Davidovich was conscripted in the Canadian Army while in England; in 1948, he returned to Canada; a meeting with Skoropads’kyi; Davidovych became a research officer upon his return to Canada; a rift between Banderivtsi and Mel’nykivtsi; signing a petition to Mrs. Roosevelt RE returning the DPs to the USSR.

Part 3: No Ukrainian Informational Service in USA; deepening understanding of Ukrainian reality for the outer world.

Decore, John (Judge)
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c030-034;036-053 · Item
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in 1909 (??) in Canada. His grandfather came to Canada in 1898 when his father was 10; his mother arrived from the Sniatyn area, she died in 1913 from TB; Kostiuk family; step-mother Maria Vladok (???) hated him, hard childhood; schools in Sniatyn, teachers Mary Howel (???) and T.B. Tompson (???); school in Vegreville.

Part 2: Trips to school; Edna; his father was among the first to have a Chevrolet-490; father taught him wise things; father was a public school trustee(??); father became Orthodox and was religious; his father died during the Depression; had to take a loan to go to a school; before the Depression his father was financially well-off, had a big house; his father had 4 brothers (Andrew, Ivan, Vasyl’, Stefan), different spelling (Dekur, Decure, Decore); father and his brothers going to Spokane and Seattle.

Part 3: Was a student at Hrushevsky Institute; dating; Natalka Semeniuk marrying Dr. Bachynskyi (???) in Winnipeg; Malakhovskyi store (???); going to Eastwood High School in Edmonton (starting from grade 9), then Hrushevsky Institute; lack of funds; social activities; High School teacher Ms. Anderson; sports activities (basketball, soccer, rugby); Hrushevsky Institute (Halyts’kyi as its Head); Shevchenko Institute; Silvester Tkachuk (???).

Part 4: Sueing the company, Farm Machinery Act, winning the case with big settlement; Hrushevsky Institut, problems with tuition, Prof. Kyriak (??); Shandro (??) as a representative of the farmers; Charnets’kyi; Avramenko and his character; Pavliuchenko (??).

Part 5: Hrushevskyi Institute; Peter ?????? - administrator, taught Ukrainian classes; the Stechyshyns brothers; Ukrainian Self-Reliance League; Svystun; Fr. Savchuk; life at the Hrushevsky institute; Decore taught Ukrainian geography to younger students and also at the Ridna shkola; student club at the Hrushevskoho with the compulsory attendance; newspaper Bursats’kyi holos edited by John Hutsuliak; students of the Hrushevsky Institute carolling in the rural area; SUS organization, Svystun, Savchuk; transferring Hrushevskyi Institute to the South Side.

Part 6: After grade 11 he went to the University; going through the university with the help of teaching; teacher-training; meeting with Silvester Tkachuk (???); teaching in Sochava (???) near Mundare; Methodists; Communists and their public meetings at schools; Hayduk (??); George Volynka - community leader; John Tashchuk (??); Depression; Dobrovetskyi (??); nationalist Zakhariuk (???).

Part 7: Getting a position at a school in the 1930s; Vasyl’ Shapka (??); teaching at Sochava; school inspector Robinson; inspector Giebalt; Communist ideology; Novakovskyi (??) in Mundare; Farmers’ke zhyttia as a Communist press; Dorosh; Tymchak; Romanchyk; Strashok (???); Ilya Kyriyak (??) as a person and writer; university experience.

Part 8: Going back to the Hrushevsky Institute; extracurricular activities; Law school; Prof. McKentire (???); meeting his wife.

Part 9: Practicing law after graduation; regular radio broadcasts on CFIN (???) while still a student (radio program “Ukrainian matters”); Law Society of Alberta; specializing on criminals; practicing law; back injury.

Part 10: A teaching job and public school board; Council; elections and political power; health problems in the past.

Part 11: Community work; being a Ukrainian in a successful world; attitude towards Ukrainians in general; Vegreville Observer; Catholics and Orthodox people in Vegreville; choir conductor; executive of the church; archbishop Terelovych (????); difficulty of the Canadian-Ukrainian identity; Hrushevsky Institute’s environment; ‘apostication of Ukraine’ (?????); his speech about Holodomor of 1932-1933 in the House of Commons; CUC & Samostiinyky about the Famine; Self-Reliance League about the Famine; attitude of Ukrainians in Canada towards Nazi Germany.

Part 12: Dyviziia Halychyna - his speech in the House of Commons; WWII; his contacts with Kushnir; Canadian Visti, Ukrains’kyi farmer, Nash shliakh; Fr. Savchuk; supporting CUC; a campaign in Ukrainian newspapers; negative characterization of Kushnir; Ohienko’s interview with the Prime-Minister; Prof Simpson; Prof. Hokama (???).

Part 13: Politics; Peter Nyskiw (???) and his election campaign in 1934; Dr. Archer as a medical practitioner in Lamont and a politician; Social Credit and Hrytsiuk (??); Liberal Party appeal for Dicore; Canadian Citizenship Act in 1948; Elenyak; Archer and his Liberal Party of reform; Peter Zvarych and his support; Decore’s campaign.

Part 14: Political campaign of Decore in 1949; editor Tomko Tymoshevsky (??); Zahalchuk (??); Labor Progressive Party/Communists; Hlynka and a pamphlet about him as a Fascist; Frankl Markel (??) from Communists; Mark Chapowsky (???) as a supporter of Decore; National Hall in Mundare; Hnatyshyn & Skachynskyi (???) (Marks & Sparks); radio CKUA and choir performance; John Hutsuliak (??); Hlynka; Andriiv (???) about Bukovynians; Limestone Wake (???) to the West of Andrew; Artymiychuk (??) about Catholics.

Part 15: His campaign in 1953; Dr. Archer giving a concept of the Pioneer Home in Elk Island Park (???); PM at the Mundare opening ceremony; Dr. Roslak (???); Kozak; religious divisions among Ukrainians in Canada; Lysiuk (??) as a candidate; Hlynka wrote a pamphlet ‘Seven Sins of the Liberal Party’; campaign committees formed in Smoky Lake, Zotex (???), Vilna, and many other places; John Bilyk as a manager of the Decore’s first campaign; Novyi shliakh sued a radio CAIN for something Decore had said.

Part 16: Peter Korotytskyi (???); Farmers’ Union supported Decore in his second campaign; Jack Waldman (??); Hlynka’ religious affiliation; Hlynka as a candidate of the Nationalists and a good Ukrainian; Decore’s vs Hlynka’s strategies as candidates; Bill Thomas (???); Dr. Rice; viche z UNO; Dr. Archer; Hlynka.

Part 17: Hlynka, his ‘Seven Sins of a Liberal Party’ and as a publisher of Nash klych; Hlynka was Decore’s opponent in both elections; a meeting in Mundare; accusations in a deal with Communists; appealing qualities of Hlynka; Catholic priest Danylo Tarnawsky; areas where Decore did not win: Wisel Creek (??), Langstone Lake (??), and ????????? (mostly German population lived there). Strongest support Decore had in Lamont; influence of Communism on communities and elections outcomes.

Part 18: Stefanyk; Roslak (??); Isaiv (??) who became Decore’s fan eventually; Stan Koshyra (??); Decore convincing the PM to visit Ukrainians in Western Canada; statue of Shevchenko donated by the USSR; visit to the Ukrainian Home and an Orthodox church mass, Mundare, Elk Island Park; Prof Lung (??); Isaiv insisted on having Anthony Hilka (??) on a program of the PM’s visit; Communists’ candidate in the second election; Decore’s anti-Communist speech on external affairs in March 1950 (about Stalin, genocide, Ukraine, potential fifth column in the USSR); Communist papers including Canadian Tribune attacked Decore; Dr. Archer’s concept of a Ukrainian pioneer home (a committee consisting of Peter Swarych; Dr. Strilchuk (??) from Mundare, Sam Sysyk from Vegreville, agriculturist Frank Maguera (???), William Stelmack (???)); the house was completed by 1951 and cost $25K; Soltykevych; Archbishop Andrew; visit of the PM of a joint mass; Liberal member Jacob Robin (???) representing the Jasper constituency (???) - speaking about Decore and his anti-Communist stance; Judge ‘Uncle Luis’ (???).

Part 19: ‘Uncle Luis’ (??); Decore deciding not to run in 1957 elections; Stefura (??); Decore in Ottawa; Ukrainian community in Ottawa; CUC; politicians in Ottawa; political life and processes; Decore defending minorities and being the first one to raise the question on cultural pluralism in the House of Commons; Minister of Renovation about the block settlements in Western Canada.

Part 20: Visiting Nova Scotia; a Bill for the Farmers’ Union cause (deduction to membership dues); Decore introduced a Bill for trans-Canada pipeline; H.R. Millner from Western Canada; Ottawa period; liberal members from Quebec; relations between French Canadians and Ukrainians; cooperating with the French representative in the Government; using French; McKeen (??) became a Senator in 1949 and Decore met him in the House; liberal Senator Steinbach (???) visited Decore in a hospital; health issues; Calgary member Smith; pressure to go into the Ashawa constituency to give a speech on behalf of the Liberal Party candidate and against Michael Star.

Part 21: Life in Ottawa for the second time; being branded a Communists candidate by the Ukrainian community (Ukrainian press on Decore); Lutskovych (???); Decore’s reputation during his 2 terms (achievements: raised importance of Ukrainians, experimental farm); Dr. Dovgan (???); Ukrainian Pioneer Home; contacts with Lester Pearson (his visit to Elk Island Park); Jack Bigsby (???); Howard as a candidate from Edmonton East; Michael Star; Bill Holuk (???).

Part 22: Cindy Hull (??); John Diefenbaker; Canadian Citizenship Act; immigration problems; Dr. K (Kysylevskyi (???)) bringing Ukrainians into Canada; Peter Zvarych; bureaucrats and civil servants running the country; Farmers’ Union Organization meetings; talking to people in Smoky Lake and Vilna during his campaign; social credit; Dyvizia Halychyna members (Walter Harris (??); Dr. K; CUC; Ukrainian Voice) and a speech in House of Commons about them; Jewish Congress opposing the members of Dyvizia Halychyna; Dave Cole (??).

Part 23: Dyvizia Halychyna members coming to Canada; Peter Savaryn; News from Ukraine about Decore and Dyvizia Halychyna; Decore asking for CBC Ukrainian and Polish sections; July 1, 1952 - Pearson’s speech on CBC; CUC; Ukraine’s issue; Decore going to the UN on behalf of Canada; Pearson’s policy on China as a UN member; Prof. Baranovskyi (??) representing Soviet Ukraine at the UN; Russian propaganda RE Ukraine.

Part 24: International politics; contacts with the Ukrainian delegation to the UN; a delegation to the USSR under Pearson; Paul Martin; privileges of the parlementeries; Decore opened branch-offices in Vegreville, Edmonton, St. Paul; Minister of Internal Affairs Cole (???); life and customs in politics.

Part 25: Favors in politics; a story of a farmer from Mundare, Kopachyk (???); Steve May; a story of two Peters (Lazo????? and Grashchuk (???)); appointments of Osavych (???) in Manitoba and Stechyshyn (???) in Saskatchewan; Decore recommended Bogdan Panchuk for Voice of Canada (for Ukrainian section of CBC international section) and regretted about it; Diakovskyi (???); Iuzyk (??); fights with social creditors; his family’s advantaged and disadvantages while he was in Ottawa; Shevchenko statue in Ontario donated by the USSR.

Part 26: Ukrainian Canadian Committee representation; Kushnir; John Sadnyk (???); Roman Savchuk (??); Savchuk & Kushnir; practicing law after politics in 1957, difference between politics and law; thinking politics; Decore’s family.

Part 27: Practicing law after politics; Decore’s sons; Presidency at the Alberta Liberal Association in 1957; animosity within Liberal Party - Decore trying to heal that fracture; Stainback & Proven (???); keeping the Party together; Proven (??) as a politician; what it means to be a savvy politician; Harper as a politician; Raymond Anderson; Farmers Union and Frankl Mericle (??); Boldmar (??); Ross McDonald.

Part 28: John Garlen (??); Stuart Garson (??); John Solomon; Thomas Good (??); Joseph & David Goua (??); Howard Green; Dick Henna (??) represented Edmonton Strathcona; Henderson (??) a social creditor; Harny saying nasty things about Indians; Douglas Hardness (??); Walter Harris made Division Halychyna popular in Canada; George Hees (??); Paul Heldew (??); William Henderson the multi-millionaire; Andrew ??????? shying away from the Ukrainian matters; Cindy Hull; Stanley Noles (??), a real socialist and pro-Soviet; LaPoint (??); John Message (??) assistant to Pearson, responsible for ‘Quiet Revolution’ in Quebec; James ???; Allan McKekan (???); Endis McGuiness (??), real socialist; George McLoway (??); Daniel Mc???????; McMillan (??); Paul Martin.

Part 29: Weenie (???); George Perks (??) the gentlemen; John Francois Pullier (???),colorful member of the House of Commons; Anthony Hlynka; John Crawford (??); George Prune (??); Victor Crouch (??); Jean Roshar (???); Gill Low (??); Simco (???); Luis Sen Loran (??); Schneider (??); Fred Shaw (??); James Simmons (??); James Sinclair (??) got an injury while visiting USSR; ????? from Maple Creek, SK; Facture (??); Walter Tucker (??); Charles Youl (???); Fred Zaplitnyi (???) from Dauphin; Michael Star; Ukrainians in Montreal.

Part 30: Cindy Hull; Benedickson (??); a speaker Ross McDonald; Kytastyi and Ukrainian choir performing in the House of Commons; Colin Bennett (??); John Blackmore (??); Morris Braver (??) from Quebec, discussions with him about the French situation in Canada; Canadian policy of multiculturalism; Osborn Kempny (???) - Minister of Vancouver Central Bank (???); Lucien Cardin (??) - Minister of Justice, Alberta; Gordon Churchill (??) - real conservative and politician; Tommy Douglas (???); Koziak - the first Ukrainian Minister; Crestol (??); Cole (??) in Ontario; Jewish-Ukrainian relations; ?????????? from Athabaska - true liberal; Bill Hawreliak (??); resigning in 1959.

Part 31: Decore’s advice to Hawreliak (??); Horowets (??) defeated Hawreliak; Diefenbacher's concept of Canadianism; opposition to having French on Canadian money; George Drue (???) - Conservative Party member, ‘Gorgeous George’, supported Ukrainian votes, anti-Communist; Diefenbacher and Ukrainian matters, Kushnir; Dupris (???); Nebrecki (???); Ms. Pollen (??); Donald Fleming (??); David Folten (???) - scandal with a prostitute; appointment process; senator Iuzyk, Bilash; Koziak; Jimmy Gardener (??).

Part 32: Decore’s sons, their education; Decore’s practice as a lawyer; John Shapka (??); Bill Carlson (??); Eugene Tymoshevsky (??); Convention while Decore was the President of the Liberal Party; Pearson; Paul Martin; Trudeau; Chretien.

Part 33: Decore’s decision to become a Judge; Canadian Bar Association (??); the process of becoming a Judge; Pearson; his disappointment in 1965; John Dieffenbacher and his defeat in 1963; Supreme Court appointment; becoming the Chief Judge of a District Court.

Part 34: Committee consisting of Fr. Khomiak (??) and Kost’ Telychko and others - Sobor, how to keep young people in church, having sermons in both languages, shortening the time of a mass; accusations of being a ‘zradnyk ukrains’koho narodu’. Slavutych calling him a zradnyk; Metropolitan Andrew (??); Fr. Kuhlyk (??) opposed Decore; Kobyl’nyk from Calgary was on Decore’ s side; Fr. Sliuzyn (???) supported Decore; Illarion; saving Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada; Dr. Vohon’ (???); Peter Savaryn; not stopping assimilation but channelling it; 3rd immigration wave.

Part 35: 1960-61 - was the first President of the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club (??); Nyskiw (??), Isaiv (??), Savaryn as his like-minded people; Prof. Simpson from University of Saskatchewan; establishing Chairs for Ukrainian Studies; CUC; Svystun; Smelychans’kyi (??); purpose of Professional and Business Club; 1963 - discussions about biculturalism in Canada; Prof. Luciuk (??); St. John’s Institute.

Part 36: 1965; deciding to become a Judge; Canadian Bar Association; a process of becoming a Judge; District Court; influence of the Hrushevsky Institute.

Part 37: Ontario - Chief Judge Colleen Bennett (??) cooperating with Decore; reform in the court system; Attorney General Gerhard (???); Minister of Energy Leach (??); Steavenson, Roger Kens (??) - outstanding judges attracted to the Court; 2 Courts (Southern Alberta and Northern Alberta); Prof. Ratushni (??); first female Judge was half-Ukrainian Elizabeth McKagan (??); Judge Moshenskyi (??) in Calgary appointed through Ratushnyi; District Court was given jurisdiction in civil matters under Gerhard (??); 2 District Courts were amalgamated into one; lawyer McKennan (??); changed in the Supreme Court, division of labor; David McDonald - Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice; Prof. Lederman (he & Sopilka wrote a book on authority in Edmonton); renewing the Jury system; a meeting of Judges in Red Deer; Judge Mcentire (??); sentencing; Murdock case (??).

Part 38: Bruce Whitaker (???); amalgamation process; Judges opposing the amalgamation of the District and Supreme Courts; Law Society; Jim Foster (??); Ratushni (??); strategy to achieve amalgamation; Judge Ted Manning (??); Frank Quimby (??) from Calgary; Bill Harren (??); Leach - Attorney General of amalgamation; Grashchuk (??) opposing the amalgamation; Roger Kens (??); Collin Bennett (??).

Part 39: McGilberry (??); Movane (??); Hlynka; Bill Roger (??); spending free time hunting, reading English poetry (Chaucer), books, watching TV (mysteries, documentaries, football); renaming Hawreliak Park; dealing with CBC; ‘svii do svoho’; trip to Africa (Kenia, Tanzania).

Part 40: Trips to Spain, Greece, Caribbeans, Morocco but not to Ukraine or other Communist countries; not pressing his children/grandchildren into adapting Ukrainian identities; multilingualism; Mrs. Stefanyk (??); McDonnel (??); 1963 meeting; President of Alberta Liberal Association; P&B Commission (??); concern with the situation of Ukrainians in Western Canada; David Shein (??); John Lasage (??); Pearson and problems with Quebec; enjoying controversy and competition; Ilya Kiriyak influenced Decore; Peter Rozradych (??); Judge Cliff Cross (??); Decore’s wife.

Part 41: Tragic events - death of his mother; liberal thinking, Liberal Party - introducing changes and reforms in Canada; Reagan's politics; trusting others/politicians; benevolent dictatorship as the best form of governance; family allowances introduced by the Liberals; doctors and lawyers; law as a overpopulated profession; Decore being influential, President of the Liberal Association; opponents of Decore; admiring John Drue (??), John Dieffenbacher; Hlynka as a demagogue; J.I. Jones (??) the best practitioner; being mean in politics - multimillionaire from Calgary Carl Nycol (??), Tomko Tymoshevskyi (??).

Part 42: Why becoming a politician; Decore’ ideology - making a contribution to raise the situation of Ukrainians in Canada, to help Ukrainians to be more comfortable in the Canadian society; Stechyshyn’s (??) thinking; Mike Luckovich (??); what Decore likes about politics - making a contribution; the use/abuse of alcohol in politics (Steinbach; David Folk (??) convicted of impaired driving); financial situation of Decore and charities (CUC, Knyharnia, Red Cross, Symphony, etc.); ambitiousness and other qualities of Decore, admiring other people’s qualities; Trudeau, classes in the society; Decore as a member of the Judiciary; Judge and jury; Charter of Rights; common law system.

Part 43: Judges Grashchuk (??), Bill Moral (??); out of 9 Judges of the Appeal Court 6 came from Decore’s District Court (Bill Harren (??), Bill Stevenson, Rogers Ken (??)); arising reputation of the District Court; benefits and challenges of being a Judge; disappointment with Peter Grashchuk (??) because he opposed amalgamation; Decore’s concept of God (supreme power that nobody knows), power of prayers, going to church but not to priests; being humble; Decore’s regrets; importance of honesty, integrity, and good credit.

Gospodin, Andrew
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c095-097 · Item · 1 Dec. 1982 - 21 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Came to Canada from Czechoslovakia (was there in 1920) where he came while serving in the Ukrains’ka-Halyts’ka army; born on December 29, 1900 in a village of Pavushyrka (??) in the Chortkiv povit; went to school in his village, then in a gymnasium in Chortkiv, finished a Narodnyi Universytet in Czechoslovakia and a bookkeeping course of a Commercial Cooperative; came to Canada in 1923; there existed Narodnyi Dim, chytal’’nia Prosvita, Prosvita Institute; Bobers’kyi and Nazaruk collected money for the Ukrainian Government in Vienne; Bishop Nykyta Budka delegated Sushko to be an editor of the Kanadiis’”kyi ukrainets’; he had 2 brothers and a sister; his family was Greek-Catholic; was in the 13th regiment (polk) of the Ukrainian Army; worked in the Czech kantseliariia; Samostiinyky; UNO in 1932; Striletska Hromada; Dr. Kushnir; Vasylyshyn; Bachyns’kyi (??); Gospodin belonged to the Komitet dopomohy politvíazniam Ukrainy and lawyer Iefymyshchyn (??) as its Head; Svystun; Fr. Semchuk (??); writer Dmytro Hunkevych (??) and his book Evropa, Hitler i Ukraina” - gathering materials for it with Mandryka (??); Sushko & Labor Temple Association; Prof. Lutsyshyn; writer Irchan was an editor in Robitnychyi Dim; Kulyk (??); Orthodox church; BUC in 1934, Sheptyts’kyi; Fr. Trukh, Fr. Orachko (was ultimately sent away from Canada); Fr. Semchuk (??); SUS, Mandryka, issuing “Holos”; Chytal’nia (appeared in 1925).

Part 2: Chytal’nia; Samostiinyky, SUS, Dr. Pohoretskyi (??); UNO; Doroshenko coming to Winnipeg; Sushko coming to Winnipeg; Ukrains’ka Natsional’na Rada (included 18 organizations) issuing “Visnyk”, Gospodin giving lectures there on cooperation; CUC and Kosar; Tovarystvo ukrains’koi kul’tury (Mandryka was the Head, Gospodin was a secretary); creation of CUC; Kosar; Vasylyshyn; Mandryka; Prof. Simpson (??); Prof. Pavliuchenko in Saskatoon; Stechyshyn (??) the editor of Ukrains’kyi holos; Datskiv (??) het’manets’, was a secretary in the CUC; Bobers’kyi; Kushnir; Sheptyts’kyi choosing his successor; Zahaliichuk (??) - holova Tovarystva uchiteliv and a CUC secretary; Kysylevs’kyi (??); Vasyl’ Svystun (??)and his relations with the Communists; Ms. Mandryka (??) and the Relief Fund.

Part 3: Bachyns’kyi (??) the Head of the local CUC (??); Fifth column; Ukrainian-Canadian Services Association (??); Tsentral’ne dopomohove biuro in England; Stets’ko’s politics; Kushnir; CUC; Bur’ianyk (??); CUC after the end of the WWII; UPA; CUC and BUC (??), Bashuk (??); Chytal’nia; Strilets’ka hromada; Gospodin helping UNO with their building; Kosar, Vasylyshyn and UNO, Tarnavets’kyi (??); future of Ukrainians in Canada; Communists; his wife - Mariia Troian (??) from Winnipeg; DPs; UNO vs Het’mantsi; Prof. Kyslytsia (??); Svystun; Vasylyshyn; Kosar.

Part 4: Creating BUC (??) in Canada as a brunch of the Catholic institution; Chytal’nia’s fight; Fr. Horachko (??) sent away from Canada; Holovko (??) sent in as a secretary; Bishop Budka; Fr. Semchuk (??) - the 1st Head of CUC, too much of a Catholic; Fr. Shums’kyi (??); Budka and his 2 letters; Orthodox community fighting Catholics; Bobers’kyi; Ivan Petroshevych (??) the 1st cooperator, was sent to Paris; Mandryka (??) in CUC; Shapoval the fanatic; viis’kovyi zhurnal “Ukrains’kyi skytalets’” published in Czechoslovakia, with memoirs; Mandryka and DPs; CUC Congress in 1942; Melnychuk - the Head of the local BUC (??); Fr. Kushnir had democratic views; Chytal’nia and fights around it, once had over 100 members, activities, Poles visiting Chytal’nia.

Part 5: Chytal’nia activities; UNO asking Gospodin about help for their Hall; Mr. Kokhan (??) centralized CUC; Stavchevs’kyi (??); Kokhan a good diplomat; Tovarystvo ukrains’kykh uchyteliv; Vasyl’ Trukh (??); Horiachko (??); a discussion with Trukh (??) in 1934; Orthodox church; his friends returning from Czechoslovakia to USSR; Dr. Stakhiv (??); future of Ukrainians in Canada; Gospodin’s publications in journals (penname A. Hermes); him being for 12 years in Komitet dopomohy politv’iazniam - a letter from Fr. Kulyts’kyi (??); his huge work in Czechoslovakia; editor Pohoretskyi (??); Vasyl’ Topol’nyts’kyi; Dr. Huliay (??) - all were dismissed later.

Kapusta, Michael
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c101-102 · Item · 13 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on November 9, 1918, in Toronto; his parents came from the Halychyna before WWI and settled in Toronto; there was a Ukrainian community and St. Josephate church in that part of Toronto; his father became a butcher, was active in the church; Michael attended daily Ukrainian school classes (from 5pm till 7pm) - teachers: Mr. Yarechkiv (??), Mostovyi (??), Bilyk; frictions and fists fights between Ukrainian political groups; his father was in the Hetmanat movement, his uncle Boyko (??) was in higher ranks of the organization; feeling inferior to Englishmen, Ukrainian culture being recognized; Prosvita; teachers in Ukrainian school; antagonism between churches and organizations induced by priests; Catholic Svystun organizing Orthodox people; UNO; the strong cultural organization “Ukrainian People ???? Court (???)” - Kapusta’s uncle, Mr. Metelskyi (??) gravitated to it; Kapusta got a dental degree in Toronto University, then medical degree in Ottawa; Ukrainian Student Club - Dr. Kucherepa (??) instigated its organization in about 1939, Froliak (??); WWII - sentiments towards Germans; Shandruk (??); staying clear from parents’ persuasions; community’s reaction to the Famine and Konovalets’ assassination; Bishop Ladyka (??); Kapusta graduated in 1943 and went to the army; after the army he lost interest in Ukrainian affairs; Ukrainian Canadian Services Association in London; Stepan ??????.

Part 2: Stepan ??? helping the DPs; Kapusta and forced repatriation of DPs; being Sergeant in the army during the WWII; meeting Mosnyts’kyi (??); Service Corps and DPs camps; Kukharyshyn (??) an active Het’manets’; Soviets kidnapping people from DP camps and other atrocities regarding DPs; Dr. Harper (??) was very sympathetic to the Ukrainian cause; DPs and different camp zones; Dr. Grenko (??) from Winnipeg accompanied Kapusta; Fr. Izhyk (??) in a camp; Panchuk, Froliak, Fr. Kushnir visited DP camps; DPs and antagonism among them (Mel’nykivtsi vs Bandarivtsi); DPs not wanting to return to the USSR - Kapusta helping to prevent forced repatriation, interpreter on the Commission warning him about upcoming raids ; how raids were happening; CUC as a hope for unifying Ukrainians; Kushnir not being flexible enough; Kapusta returned to Canada in 1946, took another course at Ottawa; his wife’s brother is a parish priest in Toronto.

Part 3: Kapusta’s disillusionment in Ukrainian cause; DPs coming to Canada; Kucherepa (??) and CUC; Pavliuk in Toronto; Ukrainian Communists in Canada (e.g., Labor Temple in Toronto); early Ukrainian cooperatives in Toronto and bookstores; Dr. Buriak active in Ukrainian affairs; Ukrainian community figures - priests were the most influential; Ukrainian churches and Communists in Canada; Fr. Semotiuk was eventually disliked by the Catholic community and converted to Orthodoxy in Oshawa; church picnics in Toronto; BUC (??); church hall and activities; Kapusta’s children.

Kaye, Ludwig
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c116 · Item · 16 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on July 5, 1918 in Yellow Creek; had to shorten his last name; his father came to Canada in 1911, mother came to Canada in 1914 with 3 sons (landed in Boston because the ship was redirected because of the war); family was Catholic; Fr. Kulyk and a new church of Petra i Pavla built in 1933; Kaye’s father was from Halychyna; Kaye went to a Ukrainian school; reading books; concerts and plays in a Hall; his first teacher Makloy (??); Panchuk as a teacher; school, Ukrainian language classes after school but no Ukrainian during the classes; Stratiichuk (??), Layba (??); Mohyla Institute; coming to Saskatoon in 1933 to a meeting as a delegate from SUMC, speeches by Stechyshyn, Lazarovych, Dr. Boykovych, Dr. Dragan (??), rev. Savchuk, Solomon, the Bishop; came to Mohyla Institute as a student in 1935; in 1937 went to the University of Saskatoon; Sheptyts’kyi Institute; Prof. Simpson; CUC; Kaye joined the Airforce in February 1941; London and Ukrainian Canadian Service Association; Ukrainian Social Club in Manchester.

Part 2: Visiting graves of the fallen Ukrainian soldiers; came back to Canada in January 1944; Mrs. Panchuk (??); Helen Kozicky; Semelsky (??); Mr. Panchuk; was given an extended leave and went to the McGill University; Ukrainian Selfreliance; Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans’ Association; CUC sponsored his tour (10 weeks); Panchuk as too nationalistic; Bishop Vasyliiv (??); UNO; he returned to Saskatoon after the end of WWII, finished the University, teaching at schools; DPs’ impact.

Konopka, Olga
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c109 · Item · 18 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Born on July 14 (??) 1906 in a village of Pidhorody (??), Rohatyn povit; she is Greek-Catholic; her father was a farmer but her mother’s brothers were judges and priests; Olga finished school and started a gymnasium when her father died; she was an amature artist and also sang in a church choir; persecution of Ukrainian language; came to Canada in 1930; worked in a cooperatyv; Prosvita; Pacification in Western Ukraine; went to Canada through England and Germany; UNO; married in 1930; sent her children to a Ukrainian school; in 1933 she joined the OUN in Canada; Samostiinyky and BUC causing troubles for OUN; Het’mantsi; Kormanevych (??); Kapustians’kyi (??); Fr Pelekh; discrimination against Ukrainians in Canada; UNO (??) Hall; women’s section in UNO; Kosar and his attitudes toward DPs; influence of DPs; Vynnychenko (??); Ridna shkola (50-60 students); Novyi shliakh moving to Winnipeg; CUC, Prof. Simpson; Prof. Phillips; Communists; why UNO “ob’iednannia”; future of Ukrainians in Canada.

Kurdydyk, Anatol
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c119 · Item · 20 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on July 24, 1905; his father was a Ukrainian priest; Anatol was the oldest of 7 children; father died of typhus soon after the WWI when Anatol was 14; after school, he studied at a bursa and was very poor; was composing poetry early in life - published his first works while at the 8 Grade; was multilingual; was arrested and wrote poetry in a prison; Bohdan Pidhainyi (???); Mykola Romanovych (??); belonged to a partisan Plast organization (and arrested for it); UPA; Ukrains’ka viis’kova orhanizatsia; Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; poet Chushko (??); Communist and Nationalist circles in classes; Anatol hang political leaflets; had good grades and enrolled in Law studies; was conscripted in the army and was serving for the kasovyi starshyna (??); publishing his poems in the Ukrainian press (Novyi chas, 1928); his book The Land (1964).

Part 2: Arrest and a prison in Berezhany; starving in protest; OUN; gymnasium hard life, earning money by writing; studies at the Lviv University; working at the newspapers, censorship; Halychyna population supporting OUN; Communists and Soviet power; OUN ideology and general political situation; OUN and Jews; him being arrested by Polish army in 1927; Druzhyny ukrains’kykh natsionalistiv’s methods; OUN network; Kokhan, UNDO (??); Sokal’shchyna - bastion natsionalizmu; Paliy (??) - UNO; Romaniv in Sokal’; Kurdydyk was wounded and transferred to Ukrainian lands under Germans; Poles and Jews; a prison in Korostiv (??).

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.

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 (??).

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 (??).

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.

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.

Podopryhora, Theodor Fred
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c217-219 · Item · 25 Jun. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Real name is Fedir Petrovych Podopryhora; born on March 3, 1912 in a village of Burtky, Kyiv region (huberniia); then parents moved to the Kherson region; he is Orthodox; his wife’s name is Kylyna Samiilivna Hudzenko, she was born is a nearby village, Remintarivka (Kyiv region); he had 13 siblings; his 2 brothers were killed in the WWI; his uncles was a General Secretary in the Tsentral’na Rada, he was killed in 1919; villagers then believed the Bolsheviks’ promises; NEP in the 1920s; his father was elected a zastupnyk starosty volosti; his brother had to be conscripted to the Bolshevik Army but was killed the chekists, Sen’ka Pogorelyi killed his father in 1923; NEP and lands; his mother died of grief in 1928; everything was in Ukrainian - Ukrainization Period; Ukrainian Church; his mother’s role in Theodor’s religious and overall development; till 1928 only local villagers were in power, not Communists; CheKa; Russians as “nahabni zhebraky”; relations between Ukrainians and Jews; 1927 - the beginning of changes, cooperation.

Part 2: Cooperation; no Communists in Theodor’s village till 1928; in 1925, were organized MTT (mashynno-traktorne tovarystvo); Tovarystvo “Suspil’na zemel’na obrobka”; villages being forced to joining the kolhosp; Soviet propaganda; Theodor was a batrak in 1928, joined the kolhosp in 1929, married in 1930; radhosp im. Kosiora was organized in his region; Holodomor circumstances in Kyiv region, Kirovohrad, Donbas; cannibalism cases.

Part 3: Holodomor, cannibalism; his life in the Donbas; Spring of 1932 - the beginning of the famine; mass media on the famine; Russification after the Holodomor; Skrypnyk’s suicide; being on a road during the famine; ethnically mixed Ukraine; Ukrainian Army, contacts with banderivtsi; Theodor left his village for Germany; life under German occupation; partizans, Kalashnyk.

Part 4: Return of the Red Army; Theodor fled away (through German colonies in Bessarabia and Romania); propaganda about UPA; Halychyna Division; Theodor was in Munich when the WWII ended; DP camps in Austria; Ukrainian camps in Salzburg; escaping the Soviet zone of occupation and return to the USSR; Fr Fotiy (??); bandarivtsi, Ivaniuk as a holova taborovoi rady; Fr. Savchuk; banderivtsi fighting mel’nykivtsi in the camp; Pundyk (now in Winnipeg); sotnyk Herasymenko, Pestushko; Volyniak; publishing “Promin’” in the first camp; Theodor left the camp for Venezuela in 1947 and lived there till 1955, organizing a Ukrainian colony there, 15 families; Mykola Livyts’kyi; leaving for Canada in July 1955, settled in London, ON; he belongs to CUC; older immigrants, Tomyn (??); Chaikivs’kyi (??); SUZHERO (??); halychany’s attitudes toward him; SUS; Fr. Fedir Kysyliuk - Orthodox priest; an Orthodox church built under Fr. Debryn (??) in 1963 while land was bought under Fr. Hutsuliak; Odyn (??); Ivan Franko Club - Theodor was its member; Tatsiuk (??).

Part 5: Court case RE: the Club money; old and new immigrants’ membership; CUC - Theodor is a Holova kontrol’noi komisii; CUC Statuty; Orthodox community in London; Ukrainian community in Canada, Ukrainian nationalism; mel’nykivtsi.