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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.

Semeniuk, Olga
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c230-231 · Item · 21 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Levkovych; born on April 8, 1906 in a village of Potoches’ka (??), Horodenka povit; she had 2 brothers and 2 sisters; her father had a good church education; family was wealthy; her mother had brothers in Canada, they invited Olga, and she left in August 1928 (arrived to Halifax, then went to Saskatchewan, then to a mine near Sudbury), married Mykhailo Semeniuk in 1930; the family moved to Sudbury; Kostets’kyi invited them to Kirkland Lake in May 1931; Communist Hall; Leshchuk (??); Strilets’ka hromada; Fr. Kushchak (??); Fr. Savchuk; Samostiinyky; Stasiv (now a lawyer) was a teacher in High School.

Part 2: Fr. Kushchak building a Ukrainian church in 1932-1933; a conflict of the church belonging (??); UNO Hall; Strilets’ka hromada - Nesterovs’kyi (??), Holobets’; a chapel near the Hall; Fr. Smyk (??); Fr. Kaminets’kyi (??); Fr. Chorniy (??); orchestra organized by Stokolosa (??), Shul’ha (??); Samostiinyky; Fr. Borys (??); Fr. Lazar was the first teacher in the Hall; Ridna shkola; Vasyl Hul’tai (??); Ivan Ilchyshyn was a teacher; Fr. Lazar’s wife founded the Prosvita but did not have own Hall; Fr. Smyk came after WWII; Olga was at the drama club - plays by Ukrainians authors; voting for the Polish Sejm; elections at UNO; OUK - women’s organization; Ukrainian businessmen in Kirkland - Sorochan (??), Fedirchuk (??).

Part 3: March with flags; Fr. Borys; Fr. Oliynyk (??); news about Holodomor 1933; MUN, Masna (??); dance club - Shelestyns’kyi (??) was an instructor; Konovalets’ assassination; sending parcels to Ukraine; DPs taking over the Hall; Fr. Zvarych (??); Fr. Chaika (??); Fr. Smyk; DPs opening an Orthodox church, Fr. Horoshko; Fedirchuk; Ukrainians living Kirkland Lake at the end of 1940s; Pinkovs’kyi (??) organized MUN; UNO branch in Kirkland Lake, UNO Congress in 1949; Kosar; CUC creation; WWII - Communist Hall was confiscated in Kirkland Lake; Khmara (??); Olga is Greek-Catholic.

Part 4: Bazylevych (??); active Ukrainians in Kirkland Lake - Kul’chyts’kyi, Shul’ha, Nesterovs’kyi, Maksymovych; Kuryliv (??) from Sudbury; Ukrainian school; Hrytsyshyn (??).

Semkovich, Frederick
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c232 · Item · 26 May 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on May 4, 1922 in Ontario; his mother arrived to the USA in 1904-05, his father arrived to Canada in about that time from Ukraine; mother came to Winnipeg, was a cook on a railroad; his parents were from the same village in Ukraine; eventually they moved to Chatham, ON (??); they married in 1912; family was farming when Frederick was born; in 1927(1928?) parents started to go on a Windsor market; Frederick belonged to the Ukrainian Catholic Youth Group; in about 1950 his father built a Ukrainian church in Chatham; Luchak (??); difference between Ukrainians coming to Canada at different times; his mother’s nee was Shliakhtych; Frederick lived in Chatham till 19, then he went to operate a Farmers Country General Store; he married in 1947 - his wife is Anthonia Pakenack (??); from 1947 till 1952 the family was in dairy business; DPs in Chatham; he moved to Kingston in 1952 opening 5 service stations in the area; in 1962 he abundoned service station business and turned to hotel business; he has 2 sons and a daughter.

Part 2: Frederick brought Henninger brewery in Hamilton; his father built a hotel in Chatham; he has 6 other siblings; John Kit (??) the Deacon in Chatham.

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.

Shulha, Olha
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c233 · Item · 12 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Kashuba; she is Orthodox, born on December 16, 1911 in Holobychok of Borshchiv povit; she came to Canada in 1924; her mother died when she was little, and her father was in the Austrian army but ran away to Canada in 1914; she came from Warsaw - Liverpool - Montreal, then to Mikado, SK; she attended school; her father opened a general store and remarried; Depression; Ukrainian area and school; assassination of Petliura; okolytsia Mazepa; she converted to Orthodoxy after priest’s words about Kyiv; Narodnyi dim in Mikado; she left Mikado in 1941; Latynnyky in Halychyna; holod in Ukraine 1933; her father subscribed Novyi shliakh; General Kapustians’kyi; Kurmanovych; concerts in Narodnyi dim; Remenda (??) family, Froliak (??) family.

Part 2: WWII - German sentiments; Ukrainians in the Canadian Army; Olha moved to Toronto in 1941, married there and the family had a business; her husband was Kul’chyts’kyi; difference between Ukrainians in the West and East in Canada; UNO; Fr Samets’ (??); Cathedral building in Toronto; Hryhoriak (??); DPs; Olha’s husband Pavlo; religious antagonism; Institute of St. Volodymyr.

Shulha, Paul
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c234-236 · Item · 30 Sep. 1983 - 5 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on September 29, 1901 in a town of Hlyzan’ (??) near Lviv; his wife is Olga Shulha (nee - Kashuba); attended a gymnasium in Lviv, interrupted by WWI; in 1914, Russian Army came, in 1915, Austrian Army returned; Paul was the eldest child; shkola kylymars’kykh vyrobiv in his town; in 1918, his father returned from the Italian front; Paul was studying in a Teachers Seminary; he was drafted into the Polish Army, telegraph school; military life; Halyts’ka armiia; fighting in Odessa; makhnivtsi; Tiutiunnyk; his army heading to Kyiv; being in a hospital with typhos; back to his regiment; Bessarabia; Red Army, internment in Proskuriv; returning home; came to Canada in March of 1927 (Gdansk - South Hampshire - St. Johns, NB).

Part 2: Paul came to Winnipeg; teaching at a Ridna shkola at Ivan Franko settlement; Transcona and its inhabitants; Het’mantsi; antagonism between Ukrainians in Canada; teaching to play musical instruments; moving to Regina in the 1930s; Ukrains’kyi narodnyi dim in Regina; Vasyl’ Veselovs’kyi (??); Paul teaching at the Narodnyi dim im. Shashkevycha; Strilets’ka hromada; womens section of the Strilets’ka hromada; publishing Robintsychi visti; brass orchestra; Shatul’s’kyi (??); Myrnam.

Part 3: Used to make musical instruments. Learned in the Old Country from his uncle. He was part of the music band there, and played violin. (They also played “Svatannia na Honcharivtsi”). He wanted his uncle to tune the violin, and he agreed if Paul would help him build instruments. He left Myrnam in 1931, went to Saskatoon; Babiy (??); Vasyl Hoitai (??); Fr. Savchuk; a trip on farm to distribute Novyi shliakh; Paul was a member of the Strilets’ka hromada; organizing UNO in Saskatoon; Kosar; Hryhorovych - the 1st Head of UNO; Bishop Makariy (??); Hryhorovych; Slipchenko (??); Communists in Saskatchewan were the strongest; Bozhok; Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Pohorets’kyi as the Editor of Novyi shliakh; Ukrainian community in Kenora.

Part 4: Denis Metel’s’kyi (??) organized a brass orchestra; Pashchyn (??); organizing concerts in 1931 in Sudbury; his orchestra was called “banda”; Prof. Bobers’kyi (??); Het’mantsi; concert at the UNO Congress; WWII, German sentiments at UNO; Fr. Jean (??); Sheptyts’kyi; after the end of WWII Paul returned to Kirkland Lake; Ridna shkola - Matviichuk’s textbooks.

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.

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.

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.

Steciuk, Peter
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c183 · Item · 22 Feb. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on January 15, 1905 in ???? (cannot understand), Catholic; came to Canada in 1927 (from Gdansk to Halifax), moved to Winnipeg; married in 1929 (??), his wife is Mariia Mariska (??); after 3 months in Winnipeg went to Toronto; Fr. Semotiuk at the Katedra Sv. Yosafata; Het’mantsi, Het’man Mykhailo; Danylo Skoropads’kyi; UNO; changing church services to English; Fr. Tataryn; Fr. Riadkevych (??); Orthodox community; Communists; orchestra; Pacification; Konovalets’ assassination; women’s section; theater groups; Mykhailo Mostovyi - choir; discrimination against Ukrainians; WWII, American help, Ukrainians supporting Germany; Communist Hall was confiscated in 1939 and UNO bought it; Tovarystvo Prosvita; church life during WWII; CUC; DPs.

Part 2: DPs; Fr. Felevych (??); Fr. Bosyi (??); Het’mantsi; UNO members; the school near Katedra; church burned down; priest’s house built after WWII; Fr. Olenchuk; Fr. Berko (??)

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.

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.

Stratychuk, Roman Mr.&Mrs.
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c184 · Item · 22 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Was born in what today is Canora, SK, on July 2, 1902; his parents came to Canada in 1900 from the Borshchiv povit, village of Pylypche (??); they were Greek-Catholic, but Roman converted to Orthodoxy; finished School in 1915; internment of Ukrainians during WWI; Orthodoxy; SUS creation; Strilets’ka hromada; Ukrainian Communists; Het’mantsi; UNO; DPs; WWI internment; Ukrainian school; Orthodox theatre group; Dukhobory; Roman went to USA; reciting humoresky.

Supynyk, George
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c185 · Item · 4 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Real name was Supyniuk; born on September 13, 1895 in Bukovyna; he is Orthodox; his brother was by that time already in Canada; upon arrival he settled in Regina and on August 1, 1913 started working; Prosvita was founded in 1920; literary nights; WWI - internment of Ukrainians; he went to Medicine Hat; working for farmers, working on CPR in Regina; Lapchuk; Narodnyi Dim - the original one; Communists harming them; George was a Head of the Prosvita and played tsymbaly; Petro Demchuk (??); Orthodox Church; Svystun; UNO; Het’mantsi were not present in Regina; Strilets’ka hromada.

Part 2: Strilets’ka hromada; immigrants after WWI; his wife - Anna Zavaliuk (??) born in Canora in 1906; her parents came to Canada in 1903; Ukrainian life and education; WWI, internment of Ukrainians; she moved to Regina in 1921 after marrying George; weekly plays; Svystun organizing people and raising money.

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.