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Polish passport and Canadian Immigration Identification Card for Anna Zabolotna. Stamps indicate she immigrated to Canada in 1936 and arrived on the ship “Montrose”.

This is a Polish passport issued for Vasyl Kuryliw. Stamps indicate immigration to Canada in 1928.

Gordon Gordey documents his dance concept and director’s vision, including performance photographs, for the creation of the contemporary original dance theatre work Pathways to Hopak. Libretto and choreography were undertaken by Viktor Lytvynov. Set and costume design by Maria Levytski. The dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada.

First Draft Concept/Libretto was created in 2002.
Premiere Performance, Canada Dance Festival at National Arts Centre, Ottawa: June 12, 2004.

In the summers of 1976-1981 inclusive, Patricia Pelech (Olsen) Carrow taught Ukrainian Folk Weaving at the Banff School of Fine Arts, now the Banff Centre, in their Visual Arts Department as part of its Weaving/Textile Arts program (later called Fibre Arts). She and her mother, Fiona Pelech, did extensive research in developing visual presentations for this course. They prepared over one thousand slides to present to the students as reference material. The sources for the slides are unknown.

Included in the slides are images pertaining to Ukrainian weaving, embroidery, costuming, baking, ceremonial occasions and photographs of the class participants in Banff.

Contains a quote from Taras Shevchenko, a document on the "Real Rulers of Soviet Russia", a letter, a document titled "I am a Ukrainian not a Russian" and a document titled "14 Commandments for the Conscious Ukrainian".