Item 2008.024.c156 - Romanow, Maria

1 audio cassette (=2 audio files)

Part 1:She came to Canada, Saskatoon in March 1911 from a Ukrainian village Susny (??); got off the ship in St. John, then went to Winnipeg, worked in Winnipeg in the “Corona” Hotel; then went to Saskatoon and worked in a restaurant; she went to Denmark first, worked there at a farm; when she came to Canada she was 21; WWI, discrimination against Ukrainians in Canada, internment; Russians in her village - a song she sang to them; Myroslav Sichyns’kyi; her husband, Dmytro Romanow, was from the same village but they married in Saskatoon; Bishop Budka’s visit; Orthodox church; Svystun; arrest of Bishop Budka; Ievhen Andrukhovych; Bishop visiting her house 3 times; Ukrainian life in Saskatoon from 1911 on, Narodnyi dim; Vasyl’ Semuk (??); Vasyl’ Svystun; Ukrainian identity; internment of Ukrainians during WWI; Bishop Budka.

Part 2: Bishop Budka; Mohyla Institute; Vasyl’ Svystun; the Stechyshyns brothers; Orthodox Church in Canada; Strilets’ka hromada; OUN; working for Red Cross during WWII; Narodnyi dim; Kosar; Dr. Pavliuchenko; Konovalets’ in Canada; General Sikevych (??); Danylo Skoropads’kyi; BUC; Samostiinyky, Fr. Samchuk; Karpats’ko Ukraina; CUC, Prof. Simpson, Dr. Pavliuchenko; DPs.