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

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

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

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

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

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.

Scrapbook
CA BMUFA 0011-7 · Series · 1932-1982
Part of Doris Yanda collection

Two scrapbooks. One is created by Doris Yanda and consists of newspaper clippings related to Ukrainian folk art and women's organization in Canada. The other one consists of documents and photographs and is entitled "This album is presented to Mrs Doris E. Yanda in remembrance of the Official Opening of the Ukrainian Museum of Ottawa at 1000 Byron Ave. which was donated by her."

Lys Mykyta collection
CA BMUFA 0096 · Collection · 1966-1982

The collection consists of 147 issues of the satirical and humour magazine "Lys Mykyta" published in Detroit by Edward Kozak. He started publishing it in 1948, after he emigrated to Germany after the WWII. In 1949 he settled in the United States, and resumed publishing Lys Mykyta in 1951.

Kozak, Edward
CA BMUFA UF1994.023.c269 · Item · February 13, 1982
Part of Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta collection

This item is a recording of an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Fenske, recorded February 13, 1982. Mrs. Fenske discusses how a whole community came to Canada by boat because of the Depression and were pressed to join the Orthodox Russian Church, but did not want to. The church was the centre of all activities with service three times per day. They used the German language at home, and their parents went to German school back in Russia. Mr. Fenske's father came to Canada alone in 1893, Mr. Fenske was born in 1902.

Fenske, Mr.