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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poplawetz, Wasyl
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c220 · Item · 19 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on December 4, 1913 in a village of Boberka, Turka district; finished a Naridna shkola in his village; he had a brother (died in 1943 in Germany) and a sister (stayed at home); Pacification in a neighboring village Zhupaly, that village was burnt down by the Polish Army in 1939; chytal’nia Prosvita in his village, subscribing to the “Novyi chas” magazine; OUN; protses Basarabova (??), Hlushko (??); Bandera as one of many leaders; Danylyshyn, Bilas - leaders; Holodomor; WWII, Germans as defenders from the Communists; Wasyl was in Polish Army in 1936-1937, then later he married; his wife is Anna Pahulych; 1941, June 1930, banderivtsi; rozkol OUN; Wasyl left Ukraine in 1944 for Germany (through Transcarpathia, Budapest, Austria); helping UPA; Senyk, banderivtsi vs. mel’nykivtsi; refugee camps in the British zone; Wasyl sympathized mel’nykivtsi; banderivtsi fighting mel’nykivtsi in the DP camps; physical altercations at the DP camps; Wasyl was delivering newspapers “Vil’na Ukraina”, various magazines; he went to Canada on a boat “General Shtugis” (??), from Bremen to Halifax, then to Piments (??); Pashchyn (??), working in a mine; Fr. Horoshko; working in Holter (??) till 1968; Voznyi (??); Kaniuk (??); UNO; samostiinyky in Kirkland; Zavaliy (??); Pylyp Migus (??); Hrytsyshyn; Pinkovs’kyi (??); Catholic Church in Kirkland.

Part 2: Fr. Horoshko in Kirkland; Wasyl refusing to spovidatysia to Fr. Horoshko because of the priest’s refusal to do that for the Orthodox; Communists Hall; Lavreniv (??) and dances in 1970; UNO decline in 1965 - people living Kirkland; Mrs. Didyk and DPs; CUC in Kirkland Lake in about 1970, secretly organized by Fr. Chaika; future of the Ukrainian diaspora; Vzaiemopomich, Samoilenko.

Pysklywec, Russell W.
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c225-226 · Item · 20 Jan. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on August 2, 1933 in Kirkland Lake, ON; his father came to Canada for economic reasons, from Ternopil region, Buchach district, a village of Trebukhivtsi, in 1928; his father remarried in Ruan (??), Quebec; WWII, Ukrainian family of Borzuns; V-Day; finished High School in Kirkland, University of Pennsylvania; his life at the University; Slavic Club at the University; after graduating he went to Baltimore (??), took a job; his unfortunate love with a Ukrainian girl - prejudiced Ukrainians; growing up as a Ukrainian in Canada; Ukrainian school at Kirkland - teacher Mary Kuzyk, Tkachuk (??), Paraschuk (??), Mary Kozlov, textbooks; Ukrainian Hall; Ukrainian dances; Mike Kwinka (??).

Part 2: Mike Kwinka (??) teaching Ukrainian dances; Olga Romanov; Ukrainian Labor Temple; DPs; working as a mine inspector in the beginning of 1950s; 1940 strike in Kirkland when nationalists did go for strike; working conditions in mines; leaders of the Labor Temple: Steve Knysh (Secretary); Nick Lapish (??); Harry Prokopchuk (??); Mike Metliuk (??); a cooperative store later converted in Jehovah Witnesses Hall; DPs; Russell’s work in mines; he came back to Toronto after the American University in 1957; Ukrainian community started declining in Kirklake in 1940; Harry Prokopchuk (??); Lapish (??); Ukrainian orchestra; Mary Kuzyk - music teacher.

Part 3: Entertainment in small towns; Ukrainian community used to be the most active; costumes were homemade - no renting at that time; people in the Labor Temple; Yachuk (??); Ukrainian identity of Russell.

Romanow, Joseph R.
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c154-155 · Item · 22 Mar. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: His parents came to Saskatoon from Halychyna (Sushna village) in 1911; parafiia Sv. Yuriia in Saskatoon; Joseph was born on May 5, 1921; he has 2 elder sisters, 2 younger brothers; Joseph finished 8 grades of Ukrainian school; Strilets’ka hromada and UNO in Saskatoon; Pohoretskyi (??); Hryhorovych; Kosar; Bohdan Zelenyi; Dr. Pavliuchenko; his parents joined UNO; Molodi ukrains’ki natsionalisty; Joseph was a pilot of the Air Force during WWII; BUC, SUS; General Kurmanovych (??); Mohyla Institute; working in Novyi Shliakh; Pohorets’kyi (??); Fr. Blazhenko (??); Fr. Yuzyk; Koshyts’; Dr. Matsenko (??); Magera (??); Kapustians’kyi (??); Semen Savchuk; UCSA.

Part 2: Poles and Ukrainians; Ukrainian school - teachers Pryima (??), Kuz’ma (??); Communists in Saskatoon; Karpats’ka Ukraina cause, Komitet dopomohy Karpats’kii Ukraini; Kosar; in 1940 he joined Canadian Air Force; Air Force school in Oshawa; he finished High School and engineering in Saskatoon; stationing with Air Force in Toronto, St. Thomas, Trenton, Vancouver, and others; he went to England in 1943; his military cruises during the WWII; Paul Yuzva (??) from a farm joined the Air Force; Paul Andriichuk (??); Nahnybida; DPs; Bishop Buchko (??); banderivtsi vs mel’nykivtsi; Peter Smelskyi (??).

Part 3: A split between Ukrainians; CUC; Tracy Phillips; Peter Smelskyi (??); Panchuk; DP camps; Prof. Rudnyts’kyi; repatriation from DP camps; Kapusta (??); Kravchuk; Romanow’s wife was also stationed in London; he came back to Canada in 1946; Ukrainian organized life after WWII; UNO; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; support for mel’nykivtsi; Sichovi stril’tsi.

Part 4: Mr. Zelenyi; UCVA; Paul Yuzva (??); Mohyla Institute; Tony Lazarovych (??); Dr. K; Polyshchak (??); Polish Air Force; 1951-1955 he was in headquarters in Ottawa, then went to England; came back in 1957; Zarkovskyi (??); a specially designed airplane, technology advancements; retiring from Air Force in 1973; Ukrainian Engineers Society; multiculturalism policy.

Rutich, Katherine
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c157 · Item · 31 Mar. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Came to Canada in 1929 from Ukraine (village Zhulyn, Lviv oblast, Stryi raion) when she was 15; nee Chaban; came to her brother on a farm; moved later to [?]; Robitnycha orhanizatsiia; married there and lived there until 1941; she finished 6 grades of a village school; family was Catholic; her father was deputy chairman (zastupnyk viita); her brother in Canada converted to Orthodox; her route to Canada: Gdansk - London - Halifax - Montreal - Saskatoon. There were 12 children in her family; Mark Polunychka sent her a ticket and she moved to [?], worked there in a hotel; big Ukrainian community; Drama Festival; moving to Victoria with her husband; deportation of Ukrainians in the 1930s; Robitnycha orhanizatsia opened a kitchen soup; Communists; Ukrainian school in Victoria; demise of the Robitnychyi rukh in Victoria.

Rypalowski, Albina
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c227 · Item · 24 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Hryhoriak; born on May 8, 1920 in Timmins; her mother came in 1910, father came in 1909 from Bukovyna; Orthodox; went to the public school; Ukrainian Hall; Ukrainian school; members of the Hall: Rushyns’kyi (??), Bulgera (??), Stydomyi (??), Tomiuk, Smuk, Blahyi (??); Labor Temple - parades when others were throwing eggs and dirt at them; Orthodox priests in Timmins - Fr. Zaproniuk (??), Oliynyk (??); Fr. Borys (??); Sikors’kyi (??), talks about Ukraine; Kosar’s visits; Hutai (??); Prosvita became a UNF branch in 194(?); Babins’kyi (??); Slotskyi (??); Vorkevych (??); Hulis (??); Masnyk (??); Zaporozhnyi (??); Olga Baserbova (??); Saturday night parties; Ridna shkola teachers - Seretiuk (??), Hladysh (??), Albina was also a teacher there; discrimination against Ukrainians; UNO; MUN; WWII, goldwatch for Hitler; pro-German sentiments; Myndiuk (??); Ternovyi (??); Danyliuk (??); Albina was a President of the MUN branch for 12 years; Pavlo Yuzyk; Stodol’nyi (??) - President of UNO; Richuk (??) - President of OUK; Pashchyn - President of UNO; WWII - Ukrainians joining Canadian Army, Panchuk; sending parcels to soldiers; Legion; Stodol’nyi was a member of the Legion; Kostets’kyi.

Part 2: Albina organized entertainment at UNO; no Orthodox church at Timmins; Rossokha (??); her family sheltered coming priests and Sisters; DPs; Orthodox church was built in 1954-56; Fr. Horoshko; Albina adopted a Chinese boy; religious education at Ukrainian schools; Mrs. Mykhalchyshyn (??); Ukrainians started moving out of Timmins in late 1960s; selling the Hall in the late 1970s; Timmins Ukrainian museum; Communists; organizing a Ukrainian Committee in Timmins; her husband is Ivan Rypalowski; Albina introduced Easter Egg decoration for every nation in Timmins; Albina worked at the Ukrainian radio station.

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.

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.

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.

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 (??)

Sytnyk, Wasyl
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c188-189 · Item · 31 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on April 28, 1907 in Ivankove, Borshchiv povit; his wife is Anna Kravets’; family moved to Ternopil’ when Wasyl was about 2 y.o.; his mother died early; his elder sister was taking care of him; finished gymnasium and went to the University; in 1926, his brother went to Canada; he went to Winnipeg in 1930 (Gdansk - Montreal, ship “Kostiushko”); attended a school to learn English; was a member of UNO, Strilets’ka hromada; his brother and sister-in-law were members of the Strilets’ka hromada; in 1931 Sytnyk went to teach in a Ukrainian school in Narodnyi Dim in Oborn (??); then he went to Winnipeg; then went to Toronto in 1931 Strilets’ka hromada in Toronto; worked for 2 years on a sweater-making factory; in 1932, created a cooperative “Buduchnist’”; Mr. Vynnyk (??); Pastor Fesenko from the Control Commission; Bagan (??) from Gdansk, selling “Buduchnist’” to him in 1937; Sytnyk went to work on a pharmaceutical company.

Part 2: Fesenko helped him to get a job; Strilets’ka hromada in Toronto - raising money for Ridna shkola and such; Kul’chyts’kyi (??) - embezzlement accusation; organizing UNO in 1932 - Mel’nychuk; the Savchuk’s meetings; Yaroslav Pohorets’kyi - Secretary of the Strilets’ka hromada; Tsukornyk (??) - choir director and Ridna shkola; Koval’s’kyi - next choir director; women and OUK; Sych (??) - the first choir director; Sytnyk was the Head of the Ridna shkola till 1946; OUN, General Kapustians’kyi, Mrs. Savchuk; Petryshyn (??); UNO and SUS; Prof. Simpson and Kirkonel (??); Ukrainian Communists and their clashes with Strilets’ka hromada; Fr. Kamenets’kyi (??); contacts with Ukrainian Protestants, Pohorets’kyi, Savyts’kyi; raising money for Holodomor 1933; Het’mantsi; Bosyi (??); Shvartspat (??) in Toronton; discrimination against Ukrainians; helping Zakarpats’ka Ukraina, OUK; assassination of Konovalets’; Kamenets’kyi (??) the President of CUC; WWII.

Part 3: Buying the Communists’ Hall; Ukrainian Credit Union; Vasylenko, Hirniak, Sytnyk contacting the Government about buying the Hall; in 1943, Credit Union was organized; Topol’nyts’kyi; in 1940, Ontario got a right to have Credit Unions; Sytnyk was the first Head of the Credit Union; Vasyl’ Koval’chuk (??); Mr. Babiy (??); 1957 - Coordination Committee of the Credit Unions of Toronto; 1971 - Congress of CUC, elected a Council of the Credit Union of Canada; 1973 - World Council of the Credit Unions; Tarnavs’kyi (??), Rossokha (??); banderivtsi and credit union; Sytnyk was an executive member of the Credit Union for 35 years; CUC creation, Fr. Kamenets’kyi, Humeniuk (??); organizing the bandura players concert after WWII; helping DPs in camps and in Canada; banederivtsi vs. mel’nykivtsi.

Part 4: Banderivtsi in Canada; Knysh (??); Hutar (??); Kosar as the Head of UNO; Pavliuchenko; moving executive of UNO from Winnipeg to Toronto in 1954; Vasylyshyn; DPs’ input; 1970 - Komitet na uzdorovlennia UNO, Pohorets’kyi, Martynets’, Yuzyk; Novyi shliakh moving to Toronto, buying new computers for the new publishing house; publishing the newspaper in English; Filias of UNO Toronto-Zakhid.

Toupich, Artamon
CA BMUFA 0021-T-W-2008.024.c192 · Item · 4 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 7, 1908 in Bukovyna, village of Orkhykhliby (??), povit of Kytsman’; family came to Canada in 1928; Greek-Orthodox; went to work where most Ukrainians would work - roads; Canada was requesting 800 Bukovynians for harvesting; his trip cost him 250 Rumanian lais; the route: Chernivtsi - Hamburg - Halifax; hard life in Bukovyna; Polish pan Wanda (??); Jews and Ukrainians; Artamon finished 3 classes in Ukraine, worked for CPR for 40 years; during Depression had work; in Regina - Prosvita, UNO, Samostiinyky; Artamon joined the Strilets’ka hromada; Ukrainian Communists; Prof. Lapchuk (??); Ivanyts’kyi - Head of the Strilets’ka hromada; Seiko (??); Seniuk (??); Fr. Yurii Ferentsii (??); he moved to Regina in 1928; he left the Strilets’ka hromada in a protest; Fr. Podol’s’kyi (??); Stefan Kutsan (??); Organiichuk (??); Het’mantsi, Fedorovych; Kapustians’kyi (??)

Part 2: Prosvita; UNO & Het’mantsi, Fedorovych and his son; Ukrainian Coop. Store created in 1947; Mrs. Lapchuk; WWII, Artamon was a foreman during the war; CUC creation; Manoliy (??); Orthodox Church in Canada; discrimination against Ukrainians on CPR; his wife is Mary Poplitai (??) from Ukraine, village of Kytsman’; he married in 1932.

CIUS oral history project
CA BMUFA 0021 · Collection · 1982-1984

Oral History Project was implemented by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in 1982-1984. During that period of time two researchers -- Lubomyr Luciuk and Zenon Zwarycz -- interviewed more than 135 members of the Ukrainian community all over Canada, both immigrants and those already born in Canada. The interviews were digitized in 2014-2016 producing a database of over 400 sound files. The interviews focus on the Ukrainian organizational life both in the Old Country and Canada, as well as political and/or social activities of the interviewees. They also encompass childhood and formative years of each interviewee, their education, family stories, participation in the Ukrainian War of Independence, WWI, routes of emigration to Canada, patterns of settlement within Canada, relations with a broader Canadian society; WWII, DPs, Ukrainian-Canadian institutions, prominent personalities, as well as the religious and political mosaic inside the Ukrainian community in Canada.

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies