Item 2008.024.c164-166 - Sametz, Petro

3 audio cassettes (=5 audio files)

Part 1: Born on June 4, 1883 or 1895 (provides different years in English and Ukrainian) in Golshchava village, Terebovlia povit; his wife was Kateryna Bambukh (?); Orthodox; came to Canada in 1910; finished 4 grades of the Lviv gymnasium; he came to Canada along; his uncles came to Canada in 1896; in 1906 he went to Germany for 11 months to work at a factory to save money for his education; in August 1910 left his village for Canada; he travelled together with Julian Stechyshyn; Hamburg - Quebec - Winnipeg - Dauphin, ship “Prince Albert”; worked on a farm, then railway; in 1913 went to a college, became a teacher; Vasyl Svystun his friend; Ukrainian community in Dauphin: a socialist newspaper Robochyi narod, in 1911 subscribed to Ukrains’kyi holos; Oleksa Shtyk was a choir conductor; tensions with a Greek-Catholic priest; in 1918 Bishop Budka visited their area; inspector Hawryluk (?); the Orthodox Church movement; Fr. Savchuk; Vasyl’ Kudryk the 1st editor of Ukrainskyi holos; Metropolitan Sheptytskyi’s visit; Fr. Rozdol’skyi (?) was sent back to Europe for being married; Sametz started teaching in 1914; WWII; Ukrains’ke Hreko-Pravoslavne bratstvo, Metropolitan Platon, Bishop Oleksandr.

Part 2: Arkhymandryt karpatoros; Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada; Archbishop Oleksandr; Havryil Shevchenko from Ukraine came to him to offer to become a priest; Sametz quit teaching, moved to Saskatoon and in 1920 went first to Winnipeg together with Savchuk, Sartychuk (??), Yarema (??), teacher Shklianka, Julian Stechyshyn, and then to Saint Paul (??) to meet Metropolitan Germanos (??) from a Kyivan Patriarchate; they studied at the Collegium with mostly Greek-Catholics; the Syrian Metropolitan Germanos helping Ukrainians in Canada to create the Orthodox Church; Fr. Savchuk, Prof. Ohienko; Sobor; Arsenych (the 1st Ukrainian lawyer), tensions between Russian and Ukrainian churches over property; Bukovinian Orthodox Church; Archbishop Ivan Teodorovych and Sobor in 1924 - Ukrainization of the church services.

Part 3:In 1923 Sametz came to Canora, SK; his parishes in Manitoba; Kulychkovskyi (??); Fr. Kudryk (??); Dr. Sushko (??); 2 wave of immigration, after the vyzvolni zmahannia; Canadian Communists; Zaporozhan (??); General Sikevych (??); 1933 - Orthodox Church and Dr. Zhuk (??) in the USA; Metropolitan Teodorovych; Sametz worked 3 years in Manitoba, then 3 years in Saskatchewan, then 3 years in BC; used to have a Russian church to work in; 5 years in Edmonton; Ivan Nykyforuk (??); Bishop Budka; Brothership (uprava); Samostiinyky and their relation to the Orthodox Church; SUS.

Part 4: SUMC, Tezhuk (??); 1935 - SUMC Congress in Saskatoon; UNO vs Samostiinyky vs BUC in the 1930s; visit of Konovalets, Sushko; Strilets’ka Hromada in Edmonton; teacher of the “Ridna shkola” Zavadiuk (??); Karpats’ka Ukraina; Stechyshyn; Pavlo Krats (??); Petliura’s murder; helping Ukraine during the Holodomor; General Sikevych (??); WWII - attitude towards Germany; cooperation between Orthodox and Catholics during WWII; in 1938 Sametz moved to Toronto; built church in 1949; Oleksa Derhaliuk (??); DPs, attitudes to previous immigration waves; his relative Sametz.

Part 5: Mel’nykivtsi vs banderivtsi; Bishop Skrypnyk; Sametz returned to Toronto in 1950 and stayed till 1964; Fr. Hlukhaniuk (??) at Niagara Falls; Horodenko school; getting the Russian church in Saskatoon; area Star near Edmonton, Savka the farmer, court case that lasted several years; Orthodox people: Mykhailo Luchkovych; Dr. Mydroban (??); Starchovskyi (??); Yaremko (??); Arsenych (??)