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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.

Syroid, William
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c187 · Item · 8 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on March 1, 1891 in the village of Horodytsia Vasylians’ka (??), story of the village and its name; family came to Canada in 1912 (from Antwerp to Halifax to Hamilton); came to Espanola in 1916; Ukrainian Church; Petro Zena (??); Maslosoiuz; Serafyntsi, Vasyl’ Bachyns’kyi; Vasyl’ Homyniuk came and built a Hall; Palamaruk; Prosvita; Ukrainian school (William’s wife was a teacher), a choir; UNO; Humeniuk went to Windsor.

Part 2: Working at the paper factory; 1930-1944 - difficult times; subscribing to Novyi shliakh; Halushchak, Ostrovs’ki; Syroid is Catholic; DPs after WWII - Ivan Kozachenko; death of Syroid’s brother; newspaper Zhinocha dolia; Zhinocha volia; Ukrains’kyi Narodnyi Soiuz - Svoboda.

Alexewich, Nick
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c001-003 · Item · 18 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Bukovyna; brothers conscripted in WWI, both discharged after sustaining severe injuries; emigrated to Canada in 1925 to Raymore, Sask; Ukrains’ka prohresyvna presa; worked on a farm; moved to Regina, worked on the railroad; Soiuz Samostiinykh Ukraintsiv; narodnyi dim; Robitnyche Zapomove Tovarystvo; Tovarystvo Ukrains’kyi Robitnycho Farmers’kyi Dim; freedom of religion; moved to Holden, AB (1928), worked in a packing plant; Narodnyi Katolyts’kyi Dim; Bratstvo Kanads’kykh Katolykiv, moved to Edmonton, AB, then to Peace River; homesteads; deportation; Liga Farmers’koi Iednosty; cultural and religious tolerance; nationalist Ukrainian Canadian organizations; Ukrainian Canadian organizations who were against war; Soiuz Ukrains’kykh Samostiinykiv; collaboration with other Ukrainian organizations.

Part 2: Was the provincial head of the Tovarystvo Robitnycho-Farmers’kyi Dim in Alberta, post WWI; Edmonton; UNO; narodnyi dim; supported cooperation between all Ukrainians, no matter their political views or religious denominations; radical Ukrainian organizations; Ukrains’ka Armiia WWI; post-WWI immigration from Ukraine to Canada; Drumheller, Crow’s Nest Pass; mining in Alberta, 1930s; Vegreville, Smokey Lake, Ukrainian cultural and sports organizations; Peace River, Highland Park, Rycroft, Blain Lake; Innisfree; educational and cultural exchange trips between Canada and Ukraine; SUMK; Cheremosh; anti-war organizations; Tovarystvo Ob’iednanykh Kanadtsiv; Konhres Kanads’kykh Katolykiv; WWII; Anti-Hitler Coalition; anti-war/determent talks between USA and USSR; Tovarystvo Dopomohy Bat’kivshchyni; national congress for Ukrainian Canadian organizations in the 1940s in Winnipeg; Mackenzie King; Winston Churchill; Theodore Roosevelt.

Part 3: WWII, Hitler vs. Stalin; Vasyl’ Svystun came to Edmonton in 1945 with a public presentation. Aleksievych also heard Mr. Svystun’s public presentations back in 1927 in Regina and in Yahir(?????) in 1928. Svystun was highly educated person and tried to engage others, like Mr. Romaniuk from Edmonton who was a lawer. Aleksievych had a personal conversation with Svystun after his presentation in 1945. Svystun abandoned his old political views by that time (thinking that independent Ukraine was possible should Hitler win) and tried to persuade Ukrainians in that through Prohresyvnyi Rukh. It was the day when Japan capitulated. Aleksievych brought Mr & Mrs Svystun to Smoky Lake for a supposed public presentation at the Narodnyi Dim. Aleksievych’s organization (Tovarystvo ob’iednanykh ukrains’kykh kanadtsiv) benefitted from relations with the Soviet Ukraine (libraries, museums, scientific literature). Saskatoon is culturally related to Chernivtsi. Professor Chernetskyi (???) was against this, but others like Prof Bygin (???) and Prof. Bunio (???) made possible that a monument of Lesia Ukrainka was erected at the campus of the Saskatoon University. Robitnyche Tovarystvo, Tovarystvo ob’iednanykh ukrains’kykh kanadtsiv, and Ukrains’ka Prohresyvna Presa (celebrated its 75 years in November) played a big role in that but never were enemies of Canada, Canadian culture, or Ukrainian people. We (together with the Canadian Red Cross) helped hospitals in Chernivtsi and Lviv by shipping them hospital equipment, money, and foods for children. Aleksievych thanks Liubomyr Lutsiv.
Aleksievych was born in Bukovyna, village of Stavchany on May 15, 1905. Went to the village school at the age of 6. WWI during the school years; Bukovyna was occupied - had to go to the Romanian school; forced Romanization of Bukovyna; Chytal’ni (prosvitni tovarystva) in Bukovynian villages. Aleksievych’s grandfather fled the Tsarist Russian Empire (originally was from near Kyiv). Radykal’nyi rukh na Bukovyni. Three of Aleksievych’s brothers were in an Austrian army. Forced conscription to the Romanian army. Brothers’ fate during the Romanian occupation.

Part 4: Aleksievych is Orthodox Christian. He came to Canada in 1925 (Chernivtsi - Poland - Vienne - Paris - port Sherburg - Halifax (took him 9 days to cross the ocean)). He was 20 y.o. and was traveling together with 4 other peers. Had to bribe a Romanian customer to let them go. In 1927 in Regina Aleksievych became a member of the Tovarystvo. he is still a Communist. Communist Party had a big influence: when in 1930 Tyn Vlad (????) came to Edmonton, 15000 people were awaiting him. To be a communist in Canada is a hard thing, you have to love your people and serve them faithfully. Communism and its purpose. Aleksievych became a member of the Communist Party in 1929 when Leipman (???) from Alberta, who attended a school in Moscow, came in November 1930 with a public speech. People from Peace River reported to the Police that Aleksievych wanted a Revolution in Canada, yet Communist Party was legal back then in Canada. Helping Ukraine during the hunger (which was NOT hand made). Kobzei (???) and Lobai (???) left the Communist Party, and Kobzei wrote about it in the “Kanadiiskyi farmer” and had public presentations; together with Taras Triasyna (???) showed a film in Regina (against the Soviet authorities in Ukraine). Arrests among Communists in Canada. In 1939 Canadian government confiscated the building of his organization and transferred it to the organization of Ob’iednanykh ukrainskykh natsionalistiv. Later on, the building was returned back to them. they nevertheless gave concerts in a German Hall and other Hall. Freeing their fellows from concentration camps. CUC and Communist organization. Lawyers Phillips and Simpson (???) tried to create CUC as a counterforce to Progressive Ukrainian movement. Publishing house in Winnipeg was confiscated but Ukrainski visti continued to be published.

Part 5: New Ukrainski visti and CUC; Kongresovyi Ukrainskyi Komitet (in USA) struggling for power; UNO, Bratstvo katolykiv, Sichovi striltsi. Anton Hlynka went to London and Rome to fight for the newcomers after WWII; deciding which DPs should come to Canada; newcoming DPs chose different Ukrainian organizations; OUN; Hlynka and his attitudes towards Communists; Ivan Iakur (???) was competing against Hlynka (he was a lawyer born in Andrew, AB) to become a Parliment member in Ottawa; Vasyl’ Halina from the Communist Party; Hlynka played a big role in bringing DPs into Canada; DPs strengthened the Nationalists cercles in Canada, but did not harm the Communist ones (though they tried to: put a bomb in a Robitnychyi Dim in Toronto and in Edmonton; attacked meetings).

Andrews, Orest William
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c004 · Item · 18 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in 1922, in Halychyna; emigrated from Ukraine to Canada in 1930, to Sudbury, ON; discrimination against ethnic minorities in Canada; ethnic gangs; Ukrainian National Federation (UNF) in Ontario; Molodi Ukrains’ki Natsionalisty (MUN) in Sudbury and Toronto; Ukrainian cultural participation in Canada; WWII; Ukrainian communist groups in Sudbury and Toronto; Canadian political parties in the 1930s; Pidzamecky; Stas; Shaneks; Philipchuk; Paul Yuzyk; Pawliuk; Kosar; language use: English and Ukrainian; Konovalets’ assassination in 1938 (Ukrainian movement leader in Ukraine); flying school and parachute jumping courses through MUN; Svarich; attended OCAD; convention at Massey Hall, late 1930s; WWII army service overseas (England, France, Philippines, North Africa); displaced persons in Germany; Amelia Richards (wife); Ukrainian Servicemen’s club in England; Ukrainian guerrilla army; Bandera/Ukrainian nationalists’ split post-WWII; St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church (Sudbury); Ukrainian Christmas (late 1930s); Greek/Roman Catholicism; Lively, ON; Crayton, ON.

Part 2: Orthodox/Catholic denominations; Banderivtsi; Canadian vs. Ukrainian identity; talks about his children and grandchildren; communists in Crayton, ON; Hetmantsi (Ukrainian) Monarchists in Sudbury; Ukrainian Canadian Veterans Society/Legion in Ontario; soldiers from Sudbury killed in WWII; Eastern vs. Western Ukrainian Canadians; Ukrainians in Sudbury; Connorson; Ukrainian participation in Canadian political parties; Zaiets’ (alderman); Mike Salski (?); UNF; Novyi Shliakh newspaper; Cobalt, ON; Kirken Lake (?); North Bay.

Andrusyshyn, Natalka
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c007 · Item · 27 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Natalka Andrusyshyn (nee Ostashevs’ka) born on September 25, 1905 in Korcheva, Rava Rus’ka. Came to Canada in 1928. Her brother and husband organized a Chytal’nia in Canada. Her mother died in 1927. Her husband was 10 years older, born in Shchepiatyn. Her brother and husband went to Canada and settled in Montreal, and sent for her. She arrived to Halifax by the boat “Estonia”. On Sheptyts’koho the first pioneers were the Borshchevski. Father John started building a church in 1925-26. Neighbors were Slovaks and Hungarians. Father Lukashuk. Harsh winter life. Moved from Sheptyts’koho 17 years and moved to Vaz D’or in 1946. Sheptytskoho was renamed in 1936 into Castaneda (???) when Frenchmen arrived from Montreal over there and burnt the school and monastery.

IUrii Sup was born on May 6, 1926 100 miles from Montreal. His parents came to Canada in 1907. They had some business in the Old Country but lost it to a fire 3 times, after the 3rd time they left for Canada. They arrived to Sheptytskyi in 1929.

Ivan Smoly was born on 21 March 1908 in Sokal’, village of Hil’tsi (???). Came to Canada in 1927 to a farm in Crydor (???), Saskatchewan (arrived to Halifax by a boat).

Maria Sup-Smoly (sister of Ivan Smoly) born on March 23, 1921. Came to Sheptytskyi in 1929. There was UNO organization in Val D’or and people from Sheptytskyi would come to it (it was organized in about 1935-36). Mr. Mazuryk was its head. There was no Ukrainian church, so that when Father Horoshko would come he would run services in a Hall where an altar would be put (later on Horoshko left for the Orthodox church). Orthodox priest would come: Pareniuk, Skorbnyk, Shchavel’, Tsiupka, Lotytskyi, Zhykhuda(???), Chaika (the current priest). Ukrainian church in Val D’or was built in 1953 under Father Chaika.

Bilecki, Anthony
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c012 · Item · 3 Dec. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: WWII, Poland, USSR, Hitler; Fascism vs Communism; arrest and internment of Bilecki in July 1940; life in the internment camp; some inmates were transferred to Frederickton, some - to Petawawa (??). AUC. WBA. SS Halychyna combatants. League of Liberation of Ukraine.

Part 2: Born in Kolomyia on January 3, 1914. Came to Canada with parents and siblings in 1922. Came to Drumheller, AB. Father worked in a mine; when that was closed the family moved to Montreal. He stayed in Montreal from 1929 till 1936. In 1936 Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (former Ukrainian Labor Farmer Temple Association, ULFTA) provided an educational course in journalism, and Bilecki attended it. Was on an editorial board of People’s Gazette (Ukrainian daily). Demonstrations in 1931 in Montreal against Polish rule in Western Ukraine. Kobzei & Labai. In 1936 he moved to Winnipeg. Classes and teachers at the course that Bilecky attended: Peter Prokop, Hutsuliak (music teacher), Kachmarovskyi (??); life during the course. Prokopchyk (???), Shatulsky and People’s Gazette. People’s Gazette and other Ukrainian papers. Canadian authorities closed the paper during WWII.

Bukowsky, Nikander
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c021-022 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in 1905. Came to Canada from Volyn’ in 1929; he is Orthodox; came together with his cousin. His father returned from WWI in 1920. Interviewee was making boots for living.

Part 2: Was conscripted in the Polish army; was forced to attend courses while in the army; a special battalion near Warsaw where reserve officers were prepared; his was to Canada: Poland - Germany - Belgium - France - Halifax; had to have $200 in hands; from Halifax to Saskatchewan on a train; Communists; Strilets’ka Hromada, choir; Catholic vs Orthodox communities; Kosaryk (???) as the Head of the Strilets’ka Hromada; UNO.

Part 3: Building the Hall; Vashchuk (???); divochyi hurtok within the Strilets’ka Hromada; Communists as enemies; CUC; polkovnyk Konovalets’, polkovnyk Sushko; UNO; Aktsiia Natsional’noi iednosti in 1932; Ukrains’ke Natsional’ne ob’iednannia Kanady; Het’mantsi; Sichovi Stril’tsi; Ukrains’kyi robitnychyi dim; Senator Yuzyk as a Head of the Ukrains’ki Natsionalisty.

Part 4: Yuzyk and Komitet vidrodzennia UNO; mel’nykivtsi; Sviatoslav Frolyk (???); 1st Congress of CUC in 1943; changes in organizations over time; CUC; Novyi shliakh, Mykhailo Pohorets’kyi (???); changing the headquarters of Novyi shliakh; Kanadiiskyi ukrainets’ in the 1930s; Pavliuchenko (???) was building churches; organizing the 1st ever Ukrains’ka kredytova spilka in 1939.

Burianyk, Wasyl
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c023-024 · Item · 28 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 29, 1895 in a village of Iamnytsi near Stanislaviv; Greek-Catholic faith; came to Canada in 1912; Kin’ (???Keen???) the politician; Samostiinyky and Ukrainian Orthodox church, ideology of SUS; UNO; Mr. Kosar as ‘Ukrainian Napoleon’; Pavliuchenko; Samostiinyky and Arsenych; Svystun; Bachyns’kyi; Petro Savchuk (???); Stechyshyn; Dr. Kysylevsky (???); Father Samchuk; the name of “Samostiinyky”; Robertson & Sculton (???); Het’mantsi & Samostiinyky; Paterson (???); Burianyk writing a letter to Simmons (??); Saskatoon legion & Saskatchewan Security Corp, in which Burianyk was a Constable; Father Kushnir; Stechyshyn; Father Olenchuk (??).

Part 2: Creating the CUC; Labai; Myroslav Stechyshyn (??); Mykhailo Stechyshyn; Father Udyn (???); Dr. Yatskiv (???); Vasylyshyn; Osyp Nazaruk (???); Mr. Chaika; DPs; CUC; Savchuk (???), Kushnir; Congresses of CUC in the 1940s; Simpson as loyal to the Orthodox SUS; molodshyi SUM & starshyi SUM; women’s section of SUM.

Part 3: SUS support for the UNR;
Burianyk’s wife was from the family of Zaleshchuk, she converted into Orthodoxy; a fight between Budka & Svystun.

Cherewaty, Paul
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c025 · Item · 23 May. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on December 25, 1909 in the village of Samovyste (???), Ternopil oblast’. His brother left for Canada in 1929, the sister later joined him. Married Maria Dobrokozak (??) in 1938 before traveling to Canada. Arrived in Quebec, not Halifax. Ukrainian community of Oshawa; his brother was one of the pioneers there: building a church and “Prosvita”; other Ukrainian leaders in Oshawa - Cherewaty, Vashko (???), Shyian, Potunskyi (??)
Local church and Hall; Communists; Prosvita; UNO appeared in 1935.

Part 2: UNO - Het’mantsi relations; Kosar (???) came to Oshawa; Communists; helping Pidkarpats’ka Ukraina; DPs, the bitter impression; Father Pereyma (???); transfer of UNO from Winnipeg to Toronto.

Chyz, R.J.
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c026-027 · Item · 25 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on February 13, 1908 in Lviv. His father was an engineer. His maternal grandfather Yaremkevych was a priest. Chyz went to a Ukrainian gymnasium in Lviv. In 1923, his mother died, father remarried and moved to Sokal’. There he finished a Ukrainian gymnasium. Pacification began and he left for Canada in November of 1930. He had a brother in Winnipeg and an uncle in Sokal, Saskatchewan. His rout: Gdynia - London - Liverpool - Quebec - Winnipeg - Saskatchewan. He contacted the Bishop of Canada and got his invitation to come to Edmonton study theology in a seminary. Classes in St. Josaphat seminary were in English. After graduating from the seminary, he went to Winnipeg and was ordained. Winnipeg as the centre of Ukrainian life; Father Savchyk from parafia Sv. Pokrovy; church services and Burtnyk (???); Communists among farmers; WWII.

Part 2: Relations between Ukrainians and Poles; Het’mantsi; UNO; Ukrainian parachutist Shun’; Ukrainian communities on farms and in Edmonton; ottsi Vasyliany; Fr. Zhulyns’kyi (???) and a conflict with Catholics; UNO and its conflicts with the Catholic church; Ukrainian nationalists and church; new calendar vs old calendar fights; DPs; pro-Hitler sentiments; CUC.

Part 3: Father Kushnir as the Head of CUC; Chyz’s places of work as a priest; Fr. Kovtsev (??); Calgary parish in 1938; Winnipeg parish in 1942; Communists among Ukrainian believers; Fr. Servetnyk; Fr. Bozhyk (??); Thunder Bay parish; Kitchener parish; Fr. Mykhailo Blazhenko; Ridna Shkola in Kitchener; the church was built there in 1926; Fr. Vasyl’ Charnyi (???); Ukrainian church in Brandfort; Fr. Humeniuk.

Fedorowich, Rudolph
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c061-062 · Item · 2 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Was born in 1906, in Halychyna; his family was Greek-Catholic; WWI, his family was arrested and sent to Russia; went to school there; then went to Kruty, polkovnyk Honcharenko and Leshchenko (??), bii pid Krutamy (about 500 students); then he went to Kyiv (village Hnativka, polkovnyk Bolbochan organized a Druha Zaporiz’ka dyviziia) and the Crimea; het’man Skoropads’kyi; Konovalets’; Danylo Skoropads’kyi; Instytut Lypyns’koho; he had to run away from Bolsheviks to Canada in 1922; otaman Hruzylo; from Zdolbuniv he went to Poland; selo Utishkiv; through a son of the Lviv butcher he came to Regina in 1923; Prosvita in Regina; his father was very active there, teaching, helped to organized Catholic church (collected $5000), Sichovi stril’tsi; Communists; he switched to monarchism; he attended a technical school in Canada, changed many jobs; Petliura (delivering telegrams to him from Bolbochan); Bosyi (??) organized ‘Sich’; Bosyi had 3 airplanes in Chicago; Het’mans’ka orhanizatsia was founded in 1926, had about 30 members; Mykhailo Het’man (??) the editor.

Part 2: Het’man (??) the editor; Nazaruk (??) writing against UNO; ideolohiia Lypyns’koho (het’vamntsi); in 1939 went to the Canadian army (Sergeant); Panchuk; Dontsov; het’man Skoropadskyi; Danylo Skoropads’kyi and money for him; Panchuk; Ms. Kozyka (??); Ms. Mel’nyk; Prof. Sapiha (??) and his journal “Svit Ukrainy”; DPs and political camps ‘banderivtsi’ and ‘mel’nykivtsi’; Dr. Froliak (??); Fond dopomohy skytal’tsiam (in Winnipeg); Kokhan (??); Zahareichuk (??); CUC; Fedorowich was in the army till 1956; he visited Korea; samostiinyky vs het’mantsi; Tsentral’na Rada killing Bolbochan; Fedorovych (??); Korostovets (???) and a journal he published; Lazarovych (??); Fedorowich published articles in Kanadiiskyi Farmer.

Forwyn, Bohdan
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c013.B-014 · Item · 5 Feb. - 28 Mar. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Valentyn Moroz; UNO concerts; 50th Anniversary of Famine in Ukraine; local Hall activities; Ukrainian miners; concerts in the local hall; May Day celebration; WWII, helping efforts; Benevolent Workers Association; his organization losing its Ukrainian component; following events in Ukraine; Labor Hall aka Canadian-Ukrainian Cultural Centre; Ukrainian schools; contacts with other ethnic groups, participating in the events of Sudbury Folk Arts Council; History book on Ukrainian community in Sudbury; volunteers coming from Winnipeg.

Part 2: Born in Bukovyna in 1900. His father died in 1916. He came to Canada in 1924. Greek-Catholic faith. Had a family of 5. His father was a deacon in their village. The village had a Chytal’nia. His mother divorced and came to Canada in 1913, to stay with her brother, who was a railroad worker, in Rovostock (???). In 1920 he joined the Ukrainian mission. Romanian rule in Bukovyna. When he was conscripted in a Romanian army, he worked in the head office (kantseliaria) with documents. Arrived in Halifax and traveled to Rovostock (????) for over a week. Worked for CPR. Later moved to Vancouver with his mother. In 1926 went to Alaska to be a cook assistant. Two Ukrainian organizations in those years in Vancouver: Communists and Tovarystvo “Prosvita” (started in 1923) (Petro Zharyi (??) and Ropchak (???)). Father Savchuk was coming several times a year to have Orthodox services. The first permanent Orthodox priest came in 1945-46 - Father Symchych. Both Catholic and Orthodox communities appeared in 1937. Strilets’ka Hromada. UNO. Liha vyzvolennia vs. UNO. Tovarystvo Narodnyi dim. Samostiinyky.

Part 3: Samostiinyky; local Ukrainian Communists and confiscation of their Hall; CUC; DPs and community; Ukrainians and other ethnicities; future of the Ukrainian community.

Kardash, William
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c104 · Item · 30 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 10, 1912 on a farm North of Hafford (??), Saskatchewan; his parents came to Canada in 1910 from near Kyiv (about 40 miles) and were farming; family was Baptist and Baptism was persecuted in Russia at that time; William was the youngest of 8 children; he finished High School in Hafford, and took Grade 12 by correspondence; sizable community of Ukrainian Baptists; his brother subscribed to “Farmers’ke zhyttia” - that is when William became interested in Ukrainian organizations; by 1931 they formed a ULFTA (??) branch, built a hall, and started putting up plays, mandolin orchestra; his sister taught him to read using Bible in Russian; in Saskatoon attended Labor Temple meeting, plays, concerts; Saviak (??) - an editor of the Farmers’ke zhyttia - came to them and held a meeting; after that the branch of LFTA (??) was formed; Greshchuk (??) from Saskatoon came and helped to organize a grammar group and mandolin orchestra; Dr. Ross (??) from Hafford run in that area as an Independent Progressive; William stayed on a farm till 1943; was for a 1.5 years in Alberta as Provincial Secretary Farmers ???????; a strike in Mundare shortly after a big demonstration in Edmonton when 14 people were imprisoned; Farmers Unity Party purpose; became a member of the Communist Party in 1931; in 1935 he went to Spain, Canadian Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, was in action in June-July 1937 and was wounded in October and lost a leg; about 1200 Canadians were in Spain; he was in a hospital in Barcelona; return to Canada in August 1938; went on a long speaking tour for the Canadian Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy (starting from Sudbury and across the whole country, raised money, spoke to mayors and councilors, lawyers); USSR and Ukrainian Famine; he became an organizer for the Communist Party in 1939, was arrested after the Party became illegal; his case was dropped and later he was elected to the Legislature in 1941; Labor Progressive Party; WWII, USSR and invasion into Poland from a Communist point of view; CUC, Kushnir.

Part 2: CUC; Fr. Kushnir; Kardash was in Provincial Parliament 4 times as Liberal Progressive Party candidate; UFTA (??) regenerated itself as an Association of United Canadian Ukrainians; Simko (??); Gozynko (??); Kravchuk (??); Spanish War; freeing Ukraine; DPs coming to Canada and their impact; John Kolasky (??); his wife is Mary Kostyniuk.

Korchinski, Bronislav
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c111-112 · Item · 3 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on December 25, 1905 in Canada, in (???); his father was a church deacon; parents taught him Ukrainian language at home (no school back then); then public High School, then he went to St. Joseph College; had a teacher’s training there and become a teacher in Regina (no Ukrainian community at that time); he and Ivan Myrobyn (??) organized Ukrainian choir, amature theater, weekly concerts; Mykhailo Tutish (??) active organizer; Korchinski’s father was active in the community; WWI - Ukrainians as aliens; Bishop Budka’s arrest; Fr. Boskyi (??); discrimination towards Ukrainians after WWI; Lutsyk’s story of conscription and Bishop Zherebko (??); Svystun; Orthodox vs Catholic church fights; Korchinski started teaching in 1924, problems with Ukrainian classes; Fr. Savchuk calling him to Hafford; Shklianka (??) the School Principal; Hunchak; Volodymyr Bosyi (??), polkovnyk Shapoval - Het’man Skoropads’kyi; Strilets’ka hromada.

Part 2: Het’mantsi’s idea in Canada; Strilets’ka hromada, Sokil; Bosyi; Fr Pelekh (??); Festyvali (vystupy ta promovy); Communists in Robitnychyi Dim, Lapchuk from KGB; 1927 - Canadian Convention, Communists planned to take over; creation of BUC - Fr. Semchuk (??), Mohyla Institute, political fights, Mamchur (???) the teacher, Bilins’kyi (??), Bayda (??), Stratiichuk (??); Samostiinyky and issues between Orthodox and Catholics; CUC creation, Zherebko; Fr. Savchuk; Danylo Skoropads’kyi’s picture; Mykhailo Het’man; Shapoval; Mykhailo Soltys (??); WWII - Korchinski was conscripted in the Army.

Part 3: WWII - selling war bonds (??) in 1941; was sent to Vancouver; London, UCSA (Ukrainian Canadian Service Association); Khmara (??); Panchuk and the DP question; Chaplains Fr. Savchuk and Fr. Pelekh; Dr. Korol’s’kyi (??); Sichovi stril’tsi, UNO; CUC Congresses; Fr. Izhyk (??); Ukrains’kyi Narodnyi soiuz; a lawyer Dr. Luzhyns’kyi (??); Volodymyr Bosyi; Fr. Savchuk, BUC; Fr. Kushnir; Senator Yuzyk; Het’mantsi; Korchinski’s federal job in 1967; he is married and has 4 children.

Kozicky, Helen
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c117 · Item · 5 Jul. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Calgary on February 6, 1916; her mother came to Canada as a 2 y.o. Child and her father was 18 when he came; Greek-Catholic family; during the Russian revolution her uncles and father came first to the USA and then to Canada; her father was a president of the Ukrainian church; her mother grew up in Vegreville, could not write, she belonged to the Catholic Women’s League; Het’mantsi, Helena personally knew Danylo Skoropads’kyi; UNO; Mr. Korol’ (??) was a Sotnyk at Het’mantsi, Paul Bayrak (??); Mr. Kupchyk (??) belonged to the National’ne ob’iednannia; Mykhailo Hetman (??); she went to Catholic school, did not finish the High School; she was a female vice-president of the Legion; she is the only female Sergeant Major in the Calgary ???????; Catholic vs Orthodox church; meeting Savchuk overseas; in November 1942 she went overseas as a Sergeant; there were 8 women from each Province; took a course on driving a vehicle and repairing it; Alberta Women’s Service Corp; Skoropads’kyi’s visit in 1948; John Didora (??); ULFTA and Het’mantsi; First Female Contingent overseas to provide services for the Headquarters; Ukrainian Canadian Services Association was established in 1944; Ukrainian Club in London - Chernevskyi (??) the President; Fr. Horoshko (??); Kozicky was the Secretary of the Club for 2 years; Panchuk as a Director of the Club.

Part 2: Panchuk as a Director of the Club; Emily from Vegreville; Fr. Savchuk, Fr. Horoshko and several others having meeting after which Panchuk resigned; Fr. Horoshko; CUC supporting the Club; Tony Yaremovych (??); 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Legion celebrated in Winnipeg - Ukrainian Branch hosted them; her name in Ukrainian is Kuzyts’ka; UCLA (??) and Vorobets’ (??); Yuzyk (??), Panchuk, Khraplyva (??) - sent information to the Orthodox in Canada; Peter Vorobets’ (??); Frolyk (??); Danylo Skoropads’kyi and his protege Korostovets’ (??); Frolyk the glamour boy; her discharge from the Army; DPs; Dr. Bohdan Mykhalyshyn (??); Dr. Stan Roshevskyi (???); Panchuk; Fr. Kushnir; Fr. Horoshko; Tony; John Yuzyk; Kozicky now travels with the Association of Wealthy People; her father went to the USA in order to avoid conscription in the Russian Army; DPs.

Kulyk, Andriy
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c142 · Item · Dec. 1, 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Ukraine; refuses to provide his DOB; he is Orthodox now but his relatives who came to Canada around 1907 were Greek-Catholic; his family settled on a farm in Saskatchewan, to the South of Saskatoon; in 1917 Kulyk went to the Petro Mohyla Institute in Saskatoon; he was teaching several years to get money for his tuition; because of lack of money, graduated in 1932; then came to Winnipeg, worked for the Ukrainian Voice for a year; in 1940 found a job in Income Tax (hold it for 25 years); studying Ukrainian at a school; life at the Mohyla Institute; Svystun; Stechyshyn; religious life at the Institute; in 1939 was a vice Rector of the Institute; was a secretary of SUMC; Bohdan Panchuk was his student; SUMC was an active organization before WWII; SUS; Sichovi stril’tsi; UNO; Konovalets’, Mel’nyk and meeting with him - a meeting in 1931; Arsenych; Prof. Bilets’kyi (??); Het’mantsi; Dr. Datskiv; ULFTA; physical altercations with Communists; Ukrains’kyi natsional’nyi komitet; Komitet dopomohy Karpats’kiy Ukraini; 2 Committees of CUC; Kushnir; creation of CUC; Pavliuchenko, Kosar; confiscating property of LFTA; conscription debate; Ukrains’ko-kanads’kyi dopomohovyi komitet.

Part 2: DPs coming to Canada; Samostiinyky; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Ukrains’ka natsional’na rada; Kushnir; Kosar; Fr. Savchuk; Datskiv; Dr. Mandryka; Kokhan; BUC.

Kupchak, Alex
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c118 · Item · 1 Apr. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on March 14, 1919 in a village of Kupchakivka (??), Subcarpathia; his father was a member of Chytal’nia; his father served in the Austrian army and fought on various fronts; Ukrainians and Poles living next to each other; Pacification events; relations between Ukrainians and Jews; his school was built under Poland - anti-Ukrainian attitudes of teachers; his father died and left many debts, Alex had to work hard and pay those off; went to attend a revolutionary course (??) in Mykulychyn in 1937, then in Verkhovyna.

Part 2: Germans annexing the Sudetes; Transcarpathian Sichovi stril’tsi; he came back after finishing his studies; in 1939 the Poles ran away and Soviets came, a Jew, Reich coming to organize life in his village; organizing the local militsia; repressions; Alex ran away, crossed the border to Poland on the San River; getting to a refugee camp in Cracow under Germans; signed up for work in Germany and got to Bransbaid (???) (thousands of workers in a camp there building planes); then moved to Berlin, got a job in a publishing house (??); Alex was a zv’azkovyi in Berlin for a nationalist organization (??); in location Marionfild (??) was a students’ meeting.