The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) is a leading centre of Ukrainian studies outside Ukraine. It is an integral part of the University of Alberta under the jurisdiction of the Vice-President (Research). Founded in 1976, following joint efforts by Ukrainian community leaders and academics, to provide an institutional home for Ukrainian scholarship in Canada, CIUS is dedicated to the development of Ukrainian studies in Canada and supports such studies internationally. In addition to its main office at the University of Alberta, CIUS maintains a branch office at the University of Toronto.
CIUS fulfills its mandate by organizing research and scholarship in Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian studies: it publishes books and a scholarly journal; develops materials for Ukrainian-language education, mainly for western Canada's bilingual school program; organizes conferences, lectures, and a seminar series; and awards graduate and undergraduate scholarships, as well as research grants to scholars. CIUS also contributes to the cultural and educational development of community groups in Canada by providing specialists and resources for their activities. It fosters international links of mutual benefit to Canada and the world, especially with Ukraine, by initiating and managing major international endeavours, including Canada-Ukraine legislative and intergovernmental projects.
CIUS is financed in part from the operating budget of the University of Alberta. Other support comes from grants for specific projects and income earned from endowment funds.
To find out more about the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, please visit its website: https://uofa.ualberta.ca/arts/research/canadian-institute-ukrainian-studies
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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.
The collection was donated to the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives in 2008.
Audio recordings have been digitized. Indexes of some of the interviews are available.
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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).
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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.
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Born August 20, 1926 in Kingston. His father came to Canada in 1912 from Kamianets-Podil’s’k, worked in tannery, went back to Ukraine in 1914, married his mother and left her there. She came only in 1925. His father never joined any organizations. The first group of Ukrainians in Kingston worked for the Tan Hightes Company (???). Learned English only when went to school. Small community of Ukrainians in Kingston when Andriesky was growing up but no basic organizations. Had yearly parties like Malanka. Still there was a Ukrainian school in a private house where children learned the language. No Ukrainian church back then, only Roman-Catholic cathedral (in the late 1930s there were 2 of them already). Priest Boreky (???) who later became a bishop. Felt foreigners because of the last name. Most of the Ukrainians were in the city. Had a Jason Farm next to them, there was Braznyky (???) family. Kotovych and Vudiks (???) came in the 1930s, but not much of an immigration to the Kingston area between the wars. Then Nyc Gulka came into town and split the community up, and they started to build a Hall (UNF). Fascists vs Commies camps. Andriesky’s father subscribed to a Ukrainian newspaper. During WWII Andriesky made corvettes. In about 1946-48 the community really polarized: either Fascists or Communists. DPs developed a new Hall. John Sapletynsky (???) was the last treasure of the original Hall (Labor Temple). Andriesky’s organization operated under a warrant of the Ontario Company’s Act. Fred Katovich (???)
Kingston had between 25000-30000 population between the wars, not it is a diverse community. Andriesky is an electronic technician repairing appliances now. Wife - Wilda Helen Andriesky (nee Harker), her mother was German and father was a methodist minister. have no children. Three dancing Ukrainian groups in the community: Maky, Sadochok, The Doors - all run by the Ukrainian-Canadian Club of Kingston that was formed 3 years ago. Andriesky helped to write its Constitution. Liubomyr Lutsiuk was the originator. Tarnowecky (???) married the John Wytyk’s daughter, and started a professional dance group, which now stations in Toronto.
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Part 1: Was born in Halychyna, Radykhiv povit, on April 14, 1907. He is Orthodox but initially his relatives were probably Catholics. They already had an uncle and grandfather in Canada. His father emigrated in about 1912-1913. His brother was at that time 4 y.o. and sister 2 y.o. Coming via Amsterdam to Halifax. Got some disease during the trip and was held in a quarantine upon arrival. His father died when he was 7. He was adopted by childless relatives, and stayed with them till the end of the school term. There was no Ukrainian schools back then. He became a teacher. Catholics and Orthodox relations. Ukrainian teachers and students. Stechyshyn (???) was a rector of the Orthodox Institute. Hnatyshyn, Matiuk, Dr. Savitsky (???) were his unofficial deputies. Sencus was one of the best friends of Andruschak. Teacher’s responsibilities and curriculum. Church choir.
Part 2: Soiuz ukrainskykh samostiinykiv. Father Pliak (??). Creation of the CUC. Congresses of the CUC. DPs and helping them, and relations with the newcomers.
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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.
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Born on November 18, 1901 in Bukovyna. Orthodox Christian. Was conscripted in a Romanian army. There were 6 children in the family. His sister was in Canada (in Regina) by the time he returned from the army, and he joined her in 1930. He was a member of the Strilets’ka Hromada (Ukrainian War Veteran Association). Interviewer asks about people from a photo in a book (Kozak, Veselovsky, Kuzyk, Babej, Abramovych, Kukhar, Semiuk, Symotiuk). Orahnizatsia Ukrains’kykh samostiinykiv and its relation to the Strilets’ka Hromada. Het’mantsi and Strilets’ka Hromada. Strilets’ka Hromada owned a Hall. A rift between Bukovynians and Halychynians; Orthodox vs. Greek-Catholics. Samostiinyky used to have a nice Hall and small church.
His wife came to Canada in 1922. Her brothers came to Canada first and brought her over (sending an affidavit). She was born in Bukovyna; Orthodox faith. Worked on a farm.
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Was born on ?????? (cannot hear) 14 , 1901 in a village of Peremeliv of the Huchatyns’kyi povit. He is a Greek-Catholic. Had 2 older sisters. After serving in Polish army, came to Canada in 1927. During WWI was fighting in the Halyts’ka Ukrains’ka armiia. Had 4 grades of education (in a village school). He was almost 17 when he was forced to go to the Ukrainian army. Was fighting in Zolochiv, Babyna Hora, Pidhaichyky in 1918. Ran away home from the front. The Poles came and occupied them. He was forced to join the Polish army. He was then near Warsaw in 1922. There was, though, no discrimination against Ukranians in Polish army. He chose to go to Canada because the family had no means to survive. There was his extended family in Canada (left in 1899). He loaned money for the trip from wealthier villagers and had to pay back 70% interest. He made sure not to work on a farm but for a company (only during the Depression he would work on farms). On May 8, 1927 he already came to Edmonton. They did not let them get off in Winnipeg but made them go to Edmonton for an additional price of $7. Was lucky to get a job in a forest. Then work on harvesting. went to Lamont and got a job on a farm of an Englishman; then on a border between Alberta & Saskatchewan. Then worked in Genek (???). Then went to Winnipeg in the fall of 1928. During the Depression he belonged to the Ukrainian organization “KROV” (???)
When was forced to join the Ukrainian Army in 1918 he was charged with desertion, and got 25 beatings.
During the Depression he had multiple little jobs that paid little. He married a Ukrainian woman in 1937.
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Part 1: Born on May 23, 1900 in a village of Hadynki (???) Buchatyn povit (??)
In 1918 was conscripted to an Austrian army. His father was interned by the Poles. Came to Canada in 1926 (his cousin sent him an affidavit from Canada), to Saskatchewan where his cousin was working on a railway. In 1928 he came to Edmonton. In Patfiner (??) was a Narodnyi Dim. In Edmonton, there was Narodnyi Dim and Instytut Hrushevs’koho. Ukrains’ka Strilets’ka Hromada appeared in 1928. Communitsts vs. Sichovi stril’tsi. Bohdan Zelenyi (??) as the first head of Strilets’ka Hromada. UNO was organized in 1932. Colonel Konovalets’ from OUN came to Edmonton in 1928 asking for support. Also, Mel’nychuk visited, Shushko, and several other known personalities. Lawyer Mr. Romaniuk in Toronto had most contacts with Konovalets’. Ridna shkola was organized in about 1931.
Part 2: Avramenko and dance groups; UNO transferring its headquarters to Saskatoon in 1933. ‘Novyi shliakh’; CUC; WWII; helping DPs in camps with parcels; relations with the arriving DPs. Andriy Zhmun’ko (??) from the old immigration, Malynka (??). Volodymyr Kosar.
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Part 1: Born on June 7, 1927 in Coniston. His father came to Canada in 1913.
Ukrainian community in Coniston. Mr.Khmara, Mr. Veselen’kyi. Fed’ Bihun (??); Iurko Riabyi. The first priest was Vasyl’ Pidpivchak (???). Kaplytsia was built in 1928 when a Catholic church was started being built. Robitnychyi Dim. Father Kominatskyi (???). Mr. Khmara bought the Robitnychyi Dim for $700 so that the building would not be transferred to any other organization outside the community. Discrimination against Ukrainians. Ukrainian women on the Church committee. Father Verats’kyi (???). Father Karapyts’kyi.
Part 2: Father Karapyts’kyi from 1950 through 1970; Ukrains’ke natsional’ne ob’iednannia; Orest Savchyk (??); Father Pryima (??); Father Karakuz (??); Ukrainske Natsional’ne ob’iednannia; CUC; Communists; Father Elatskyi (???); Church life.
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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.
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Born on January 20, 1933 in Sudbury. His wife Stella (nee Pankiv) was born in Saskatchewan. His father was born in Canada in 1909, mother in 1914. Was a member of the Ukrainian Farmer Labor Temple Association. Ukrainian school - teacher Tymoshevskyi (??). Was involved in a drama club. DPs and their relations with the Labor Temple. National conventions of the UAC in the later 1950s. Organization’s choirs and dance groups.
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Born on March 22, 1903 in a Ukrainian village of Horodenka. Came to Canada in 1920, to Montreal. Then went back and again came back in 1922, to Montreal again. Worked in a mine in Timmins. In 1930 changed a job (club store???). Communists. Tkatchuk.
His wife is Maria Kunin (??)
Prosvita; DPs
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Part 1: Born in October 1887 (???). Came to Canada in 1910. Local Ukrainian Hall named “Zoria”. Financing Pidkarpats’ka Ukraina. Local Catholic priests. Shuns’kyi (???). Ukrainians-Communists. Local churches. Catholics vs Orthodox. Three separate “Prosvita” Societies. UNO. Murder of Petliura in 1926.
Part 2: Hitler and Ukraine’s hopes; DPs; Catholics vs Orthodox.
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Part 1: Born in Saskatoon in 1908; Mohyla Institute; Catholics vs Orthodox; Convention of 1926; Samostiinyky; UNO.
Part 2: UNO; Strilets’ka Hromada; Sheptyts’kyi; Orthodox Church movement.
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Nee Kachuriak was born on May 10, 1909. Had 6 siblings. Father was sent to the Siberia for 4,5 years. Her husband went to Canada in 1926 and she joined him in 1932 (travelled from Rotterdam to Halifax). Her husband organized building a Ukrainian church in Timmins (Pashchyn (???), Podolian, Plaskovis (???). Mr. & Mrs. Rysak; Mike Tyshliuk; Mr. & Mrs. Klapushchak as donors) in about 1945. UNO Hall (Roshchyns’kyi (??), Slots’kyi (??)). Orthodox priest had services in the Hall. Communists. ‘Ridna shkola’; Father Horoshko, Motryns’kyi; a fight after selling the Natsional’nyi dim; DPs; discrimination of Ukrainians in the 1930s; Women’s organization.
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Part 1: Born on June 22, 1925. His parents came to Canada in 1910. Mother’s maiden name is Lakusta. They were first in the area of Vegreville and Two Hills and father worked in a mine; then they moved to the “East End of Vancouver”. Ukrainian Farmer Labor Temple Association Hall; Ukrainian school; Holodomor as a fiction; UNO.
Part 2: UNO; WWII, internment of the Communist community’s leaders; losing the Hall; Workers Benevolent Association; CUC.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Part 1: Born on January 11, 1913 in Stryi, Alberta; his father came to Canada “na stolittia” and mother came later, in about 1907. He is Orthodox. Went to a Ukrainian school. Finished school in Edmonton, then studied at the Alberta College. Worked in a bank in 1929. Same year he went to the USA to study at a University. Catholic Ukrainian church in Stryi; Communists-Ukrainians; Instytut Hrushevs’koho in Edmonton; Petro Zvarych. Studying at the largest Catholic University in New York (graduated in 1935); life of Ukrainians in the USA vs Canada; Kyslevs’kyi; Kosar; a talk with Konovalets’; in 1937 went to England and Rome to work for a Ukrainian Bureau; a meeting with Colonel Mel’nyk; Stepan Pavliuk; Dr. Kyslevs’kyi and the Ukrainian Bureau (sponsored by Makohin); Ukrainian National Information Service; Dokovych (???); Voyt (??), Editor of Nineteen Century and After.
Part 2: Publishing his articles in journals; Kosar and Hranovskyi (???); Meeting with Mel’nyk; contacts with UNO; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Fr. Voloshyn; Konovalets’; Chris Phillips (???) from English intelligence; CUC; in 1941 Davidovich was conscripted in the Canadian Army while in England; in 1948, he returned to Canada; a meeting with Skoropads’kyi; Davidovych became a research officer upon his return to Canada; a rift between Banderivtsi and Mel’nykivtsi; signing a petition to Mrs. Roosevelt RE returning the DPs to the USSR.
Part 3: No Ukrainian Informational Service in USA; deepening understanding of Ukrainian reality for the outer world.
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Part 1: Financing Ukrainian and Jewish collections at the National Library of Canada (??), rare books.
Part 2: Born in Canada in 1908 (??). Parents went to the USA. Then returned to Toronto in 1939 (??). Wrote a book - was well received. His relations with Ukrainians. Ukrainian Famine.
Part 3: Stalin; he went after the WWII in Moscow as a Canadian correspondent; his visit to the USSR and Ukrainian SSR; McKenzi (???); Communists; DPs; antisemitism; characteristics of the interwar Ukrainian situation in Canada .
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Part 1: Born in 1909 (??) in Canada. His grandfather came to Canada in 1898 when his father was 10; his mother arrived from the Sniatyn area, she died in 1913 from TB; Kostiuk family; step-mother Maria Vladok (???) hated him, hard childhood; schools in Sniatyn, teachers Mary Howel (???) and T.B. Tompson (???); school in Vegreville.
Part 2: Trips to school; Edna; his father was among the first to have a Chevrolet-490; father taught him wise things; father was a public school trustee(??); father became Orthodox and was religious; his father died during the Depression; had to take a loan to go to a school; before the Depression his father was financially well-off, had a big house; his father had 4 brothers (Andrew, Ivan, Vasyl’, Stefan), different spelling (Dekur, Decure, Decore); father and his brothers going to Spokane and Seattle.
Part 3: Was a student at Hrushevsky Institute; dating; Natalka Semeniuk marrying Dr. Bachynskyi (???) in Winnipeg; Malakhovskyi store (???); going to Eastwood High School in Edmonton (starting from grade 9), then Hrushevsky Institute; lack of funds; social activities; High School teacher Ms. Anderson; sports activities (basketball, soccer, rugby); Hrushevsky Institute (Halyts’kyi as its Head); Shevchenko Institute; Silvester Tkachuk (???).
Part 4: Sueing the company, Farm Machinery Act, winning the case with big settlement; Hrushevsky Institut, problems with tuition, Prof. Kyriak (??); Shandro (??) as a representative of the farmers; Charnets’kyi; Avramenko and his character; Pavliuchenko (??).
Part 5: Hrushevskyi Institute; Peter ?????? - administrator, taught Ukrainian classes; the Stechyshyns brothers; Ukrainian Self-Reliance League; Svystun; Fr. Savchuk; life at the Hrushevsky institute; Decore taught Ukrainian geography to younger students and also at the Ridna shkola; student club at the Hrushevskoho with the compulsory attendance; newspaper Bursats’kyi holos edited by John Hutsuliak; students of the Hrushevsky Institute carolling in the rural area; SUS organization, Svystun, Savchuk; transferring Hrushevskyi Institute to the South Side.
Part 6: After grade 11 he went to the University; going through the university with the help of teaching; teacher-training; meeting with Silvester Tkachuk (???); teaching in Sochava (???) near Mundare; Methodists; Communists and their public meetings at schools; Hayduk (??); George Volynka - community leader; John Tashchuk (??); Depression; Dobrovetskyi (??); nationalist Zakhariuk (???).
Part 7: Getting a position at a school in the 1930s; Vasyl’ Shapka (??); teaching at Sochava; school inspector Robinson; inspector Giebalt; Communist ideology; Novakovskyi (??) in Mundare; Farmers’ke zhyttia as a Communist press; Dorosh; Tymchak; Romanchyk; Strashok (???); Ilya Kyriyak (??) as a person and writer; university experience.
Part 8: Going back to the Hrushevsky Institute; extracurricular activities; Law school; Prof. McKentire (???); meeting his wife.
Part 9: Practicing law after graduation; regular radio broadcasts on CFIN (???) while still a student (radio program “Ukrainian matters”); Law Society of Alberta; specializing on criminals; practicing law; back injury.
Part 10: A teaching job and public school board; Council; elections and political power; health problems in the past.
Part 11: Community work; being a Ukrainian in a successful world; attitude towards Ukrainians in general; Vegreville Observer; Catholics and Orthodox people in Vegreville; choir conductor; executive of the church; archbishop Terelovych (????); difficulty of the Canadian-Ukrainian identity; Hrushevsky Institute’s environment; ‘apostication of Ukraine’ (?????); his speech about Holodomor of 1932-1933 in the House of Commons; CUC & Samostiinyky about the Famine; Self-Reliance League about the Famine; attitude of Ukrainians in Canada towards Nazi Germany.
Part 12: Dyviziia Halychyna - his speech in the House of Commons; WWII; his contacts with Kushnir; Canadian Visti, Ukrains’kyi farmer, Nash shliakh; Fr. Savchuk; supporting CUC; a campaign in Ukrainian newspapers; negative characterization of Kushnir; Ohienko’s interview with the Prime-Minister; Prof Simpson; Prof. Hokama (???).
Part 13: Politics; Peter Nyskiw (???) and his election campaign in 1934; Dr. Archer as a medical practitioner in Lamont and a politician; Social Credit and Hrytsiuk (??); Liberal Party appeal for Dicore; Canadian Citizenship Act in 1948; Elenyak; Archer and his Liberal Party of reform; Peter Zvarych and his support; Decore’s campaign.
Part 14: Political campaign of Decore in 1949; editor Tomko Tymoshevsky (??); Zahalchuk (??); Labor Progressive Party/Communists; Hlynka and a pamphlet about him as a Fascist; Frankl Markel (??) from Communists; Mark Chapowsky (???) as a supporter of Decore; National Hall in Mundare; Hnatyshyn & Skachynskyi (???) (Marks & Sparks); radio CKUA and choir performance; John Hutsuliak (??); Hlynka; Andriiv (???) about Bukovynians; Limestone Wake (???) to the West of Andrew; Artymiychuk (??) about Catholics.
Part 15: His campaign in 1953; Dr. Archer giving a concept of the Pioneer Home in Elk Island Park (???); PM at the Mundare opening ceremony; Dr. Roslak (???); Kozak; religious divisions among Ukrainians in Canada; Lysiuk (??) as a candidate; Hlynka wrote a pamphlet ‘Seven Sins of the Liberal Party’; campaign committees formed in Smoky Lake, Zotex (???), Vilna, and many other places; John Bilyk as a manager of the Decore’s first campaign; Novyi shliakh sued a radio CAIN for something Decore had said.
Part 16: Peter Korotytskyi (???); Farmers’ Union supported Decore in his second campaign; Jack Waldman (??); Hlynka’ religious affiliation; Hlynka as a candidate of the Nationalists and a good Ukrainian; Decore’s vs Hlynka’s strategies as candidates; Bill Thomas (???); Dr. Rice; viche z UNO; Dr. Archer; Hlynka.
Part 17: Hlynka, his ‘Seven Sins of a Liberal Party’ and as a publisher of Nash klych; Hlynka was Decore’s opponent in both elections; a meeting in Mundare; accusations in a deal with Communists; appealing qualities of Hlynka; Catholic priest Danylo Tarnawsky; areas where Decore did not win: Wisel Creek (??), Langstone Lake (??), and ????????? (mostly German population lived there). Strongest support Decore had in Lamont; influence of Communism on communities and elections outcomes.
Part 18: Stefanyk; Roslak (??); Isaiv (??) who became Decore’s fan eventually; Stan Koshyra (??); Decore convincing the PM to visit Ukrainians in Western Canada; statue of Shevchenko donated by the USSR; visit to the Ukrainian Home and an Orthodox church mass, Mundare, Elk Island Park; Prof Lung (??); Isaiv insisted on having Anthony Hilka (??) on a program of the PM’s visit; Communists’ candidate in the second election; Decore’s anti-Communist speech on external affairs in March 1950 (about Stalin, genocide, Ukraine, potential fifth column in the USSR); Communist papers including Canadian Tribune attacked Decore; Dr. Archer’s concept of a Ukrainian pioneer home (a committee consisting of Peter Swarych; Dr. Strilchuk (??) from Mundare, Sam Sysyk from Vegreville, agriculturist Frank Maguera (???), William Stelmack (???)); the house was completed by 1951 and cost $25K; Soltykevych; Archbishop Andrew; visit of the PM of a joint mass; Liberal member Jacob Robin (???) representing the Jasper constituency (???) - speaking about Decore and his anti-Communist stance; Judge ‘Uncle Luis’ (???).
Part 19: ‘Uncle Luis’ (??); Decore deciding not to run in 1957 elections; Stefura (??); Decore in Ottawa; Ukrainian community in Ottawa; CUC; politicians in Ottawa; political life and processes; Decore defending minorities and being the first one to raise the question on cultural pluralism in the House of Commons; Minister of Renovation about the block settlements in Western Canada.
Part 20: Visiting Nova Scotia; a Bill for the Farmers’ Union cause (deduction to membership dues); Decore introduced a Bill for trans-Canada pipeline; H.R. Millner from Western Canada; Ottawa period; liberal members from Quebec; relations between French Canadians and Ukrainians; cooperating with the French representative in the Government; using French; McKeen (??) became a Senator in 1949 and Decore met him in the House; liberal Senator Steinbach (???) visited Decore in a hospital; health issues; Calgary member Smith; pressure to go into the Ashawa constituency to give a speech on behalf of the Liberal Party candidate and against Michael Star.
Part 21: Life in Ottawa for the second time; being branded a Communists candidate by the Ukrainian community (Ukrainian press on Decore); Lutskovych (???); Decore’s reputation during his 2 terms (achievements: raised importance of Ukrainians, experimental farm); Dr. Dovgan (???); Ukrainian Pioneer Home; contacts with Lester Pearson (his visit to Elk Island Park); Jack Bigsby (???); Howard as a candidate from Edmonton East; Michael Star; Bill Holuk (???).
Part 22: Cindy Hull (??); John Diefenbaker; Canadian Citizenship Act; immigration problems; Dr. K (Kysylevskyi (???)) bringing Ukrainians into Canada; Peter Zvarych; bureaucrats and civil servants running the country; Farmers’ Union Organization meetings; talking to people in Smoky Lake and Vilna during his campaign; social credit; Dyvizia Halychyna members (Walter Harris (??); Dr. K; CUC; Ukrainian Voice) and a speech in House of Commons about them; Jewish Congress opposing the members of Dyvizia Halychyna; Dave Cole (??).
Part 23: Dyvizia Halychyna members coming to Canada; Peter Savaryn; News from Ukraine about Decore and Dyvizia Halychyna; Decore asking for CBC Ukrainian and Polish sections; July 1, 1952 - Pearson’s speech on CBC; CUC; Ukraine’s issue; Decore going to the UN on behalf of Canada; Pearson’s policy on China as a UN member; Prof. Baranovskyi (??) representing Soviet Ukraine at the UN; Russian propaganda RE Ukraine.
Part 24: International politics; contacts with the Ukrainian delegation to the UN; a delegation to the USSR under Pearson; Paul Martin; privileges of the parlementeries; Decore opened branch-offices in Vegreville, Edmonton, St. Paul; Minister of Internal Affairs Cole (???); life and customs in politics.
Part 25: Favors in politics; a story of a farmer from Mundare, Kopachyk (???); Steve May; a story of two Peters (Lazo????? and Grashchuk (???)); appointments of Osavych (???) in Manitoba and Stechyshyn (???) in Saskatchewan; Decore recommended Bogdan Panchuk for Voice of Canada (for Ukrainian section of CBC international section) and regretted about it; Diakovskyi (???); Iuzyk (??); fights with social creditors; his family’s advantaged and disadvantages while he was in Ottawa; Shevchenko statue in Ontario donated by the USSR.
Part 26: Ukrainian Canadian Committee representation; Kushnir; John Sadnyk (???); Roman Savchuk (??); Savchuk & Kushnir; practicing law after politics in 1957, difference between politics and law; thinking politics; Decore’s family.
Part 27: Practicing law after politics; Decore’s sons; Presidency at the Alberta Liberal Association in 1957; animosity within Liberal Party - Decore trying to heal that fracture; Stainback & Proven (???); keeping the Party together; Proven (??) as a politician; what it means to be a savvy politician; Harper as a politician; Raymond Anderson; Farmers Union and Frankl Mericle (??); Boldmar (??); Ross McDonald.
Part 28: John Garlen (??); Stuart Garson (??); John Solomon; Thomas Good (??); Joseph & David Goua (??); Howard Green; Dick Henna (??) represented Edmonton Strathcona; Henderson (??) a social creditor; Harny saying nasty things about Indians; Douglas Hardness (??); Walter Harris made Division Halychyna popular in Canada; George Hees (??); Paul Heldew (??); William Henderson the multi-millionaire; Andrew ??????? shying away from the Ukrainian matters; Cindy Hull; Stanley Noles (??), a real socialist and pro-Soviet; LaPoint (??); John Message (??) assistant to Pearson, responsible for ‘Quiet Revolution’ in Quebec; James ???; Allan McKekan (???); Endis McGuiness (??), real socialist; George McLoway (??); Daniel Mc???????; McMillan (??); Paul Martin.
Part 29: Weenie (???); George Perks (??) the gentlemen; John Francois Pullier (???),colorful member of the House of Commons; Anthony Hlynka; John Crawford (??); George Prune (??); Victor Crouch (??); Jean Roshar (???); Gill Low (??); Simco (???); Luis Sen Loran (??); Schneider (??); Fred Shaw (??); James Simmons (??); James Sinclair (??) got an injury while visiting USSR; ????? from Maple Creek, SK; Facture (??); Walter Tucker (??); Charles Youl (???); Fred Zaplitnyi (???) from Dauphin; Michael Star; Ukrainians in Montreal.
Part 30: Cindy Hull; Benedickson (??); a speaker Ross McDonald; Kytastyi and Ukrainian choir performing in the House of Commons; Colin Bennett (??); John Blackmore (??); Morris Braver (??) from Quebec, discussions with him about the French situation in Canada; Canadian policy of multiculturalism; Osborn Kempny (???) - Minister of Vancouver Central Bank (???); Lucien Cardin (??) - Minister of Justice, Alberta; Gordon Churchill (??) - real conservative and politician; Tommy Douglas (???); Koziak - the first Ukrainian Minister; Crestol (??); Cole (??) in Ontario; Jewish-Ukrainian relations; ?????????? from Athabaska - true liberal; Bill Hawreliak (??); resigning in 1959.
Part 31: Decore’s advice to Hawreliak (??); Horowets (??) defeated Hawreliak; Diefenbacher's concept of Canadianism; opposition to having French on Canadian money; George Drue (???) - Conservative Party member, ‘Gorgeous George’, supported Ukrainian votes, anti-Communist; Diefenbacher and Ukrainian matters, Kushnir; Dupris (???); Nebrecki (???); Ms. Pollen (??); Donald Fleming (??); David Folten (???) - scandal with a prostitute; appointment process; senator Iuzyk, Bilash; Koziak; Jimmy Gardener (??).
Part 32: Decore’s sons, their education; Decore’s practice as a lawyer; John Shapka (??); Bill Carlson (??); Eugene Tymoshevsky (??); Convention while Decore was the President of the Liberal Party; Pearson; Paul Martin; Trudeau; Chretien.
Part 33: Decore’s decision to become a Judge; Canadian Bar Association (??); the process of becoming a Judge; Pearson; his disappointment in 1965; John Dieffenbacher and his defeat in 1963; Supreme Court appointment; becoming the Chief Judge of a District Court.
Part 34: Committee consisting of Fr. Khomiak (??) and Kost’ Telychko and others - Sobor, how to keep young people in church, having sermons in both languages, shortening the time of a mass; accusations of being a ‘zradnyk ukrains’koho narodu’. Slavutych calling him a zradnyk; Metropolitan Andrew (??); Fr. Kuhlyk (??) opposed Decore; Kobyl’nyk from Calgary was on Decore’ s side; Fr. Sliuzyn (???) supported Decore; Illarion; saving Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada; Dr. Vohon’ (???); Peter Savaryn; not stopping assimilation but channelling it; 3rd immigration wave.
Part 35: 1960-61 - was the first President of the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club (??); Nyskiw (??), Isaiv (??), Savaryn as his like-minded people; Prof. Simpson from University of Saskatchewan; establishing Chairs for Ukrainian Studies; CUC; Svystun; Smelychans’kyi (??); purpose of Professional and Business Club; 1963 - discussions about biculturalism in Canada; Prof. Luciuk (??); St. John’s Institute.
Part 36: 1965; deciding to become a Judge; Canadian Bar Association; a process of becoming a Judge; District Court; influence of the Hrushevsky Institute.
Part 37: Ontario - Chief Judge Colleen Bennett (??) cooperating with Decore; reform in the court system; Attorney General Gerhard (???); Minister of Energy Leach (??); Steavenson, Roger Kens (??) - outstanding judges attracted to the Court; 2 Courts (Southern Alberta and Northern Alberta); Prof. Ratushni (??); first female Judge was half-Ukrainian Elizabeth McKagan (??); Judge Moshenskyi (??) in Calgary appointed through Ratushnyi; District Court was given jurisdiction in civil matters under Gerhard (??); 2 District Courts were amalgamated into one; lawyer McKennan (??); changed in the Supreme Court, division of labor; David McDonald - Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice; Prof. Lederman (he & Sopilka wrote a book on authority in Edmonton); renewing the Jury system; a meeting of Judges in Red Deer; Judge Mcentire (??); sentencing; Murdock case (??).
Part 38: Bruce Whitaker (???); amalgamation process; Judges opposing the amalgamation of the District and Supreme Courts; Law Society; Jim Foster (??); Ratushni (??); strategy to achieve amalgamation; Judge Ted Manning (??); Frank Quimby (??) from Calgary; Bill Harren (??); Leach - Attorney General of amalgamation; Grashchuk (??) opposing the amalgamation; Roger Kens (??); Collin Bennett (??).
Part 39: McGilberry (??); Movane (??); Hlynka; Bill Roger (??); spending free time hunting, reading English poetry (Chaucer), books, watching TV (mysteries, documentaries, football); renaming Hawreliak Park; dealing with CBC; ‘svii do svoho’; trip to Africa (Kenia, Tanzania).
Part 40: Trips to Spain, Greece, Caribbeans, Morocco but not to Ukraine or other Communist countries; not pressing his children/grandchildren into adapting Ukrainian identities; multilingualism; Mrs. Stefanyk (??); McDonnel (??); 1963 meeting; President of Alberta Liberal Association; P&B Commission (??); concern with the situation of Ukrainians in Western Canada; David Shein (??); John Lasage (??); Pearson and problems with Quebec; enjoying controversy and competition; Ilya Kiriyak influenced Decore; Peter Rozradych (??); Judge Cliff Cross (??); Decore’s wife.
Part 41: Tragic events - death of his mother; liberal thinking, Liberal Party - introducing changes and reforms in Canada; Reagan's politics; trusting others/politicians; benevolent dictatorship as the best form of governance; family allowances introduced by the Liberals; doctors and lawyers; law as a overpopulated profession; Decore being influential, President of the Liberal Association; opponents of Decore; admiring John Drue (??), John Dieffenbacher; Hlynka as a demagogue; J.I. Jones (??) the best practitioner; being mean in politics - multimillionaire from Calgary Carl Nycol (??), Tomko Tymoshevskyi (??).
Part 42: Why becoming a politician; Decore’ ideology - making a contribution to raise the situation of Ukrainians in Canada, to help Ukrainians to be more comfortable in the Canadian society; Stechyshyn’s (??) thinking; Mike Luckovich (??); what Decore likes about politics - making a contribution; the use/abuse of alcohol in politics (Steinbach; David Folk (??) convicted of impaired driving); financial situation of Decore and charities (CUC, Knyharnia, Red Cross, Symphony, etc.); ambitiousness and other qualities of Decore, admiring other people’s qualities; Trudeau, classes in the society; Decore as a member of the Judiciary; Judge and jury; Charter of Rights; common law system.
Part 43: Judges Grashchuk (??), Bill Moral (??); out of 9 Judges of the Appeal Court 6 came from Decore’s District Court (Bill Harren (??), Bill Stevenson, Rogers Ken (??)); arising reputation of the District Court; benefits and challenges of being a Judge; disappointment with Peter Grashchuk (??) because he opposed amalgamation; Decore’s concept of God (supreme power that nobody knows), power of prayers, going to church but not to priests; being humble; Decore’s regrets; importance of honesty, integrity, and good credit.
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Part 1: Born in 1897 (??), in the village of Khraplychi near Peremyshl’; went to school in the village; in 1914, he went to Peremyshl’; nee of his wife - Ol’ha Platsko (??) from Rus’ka Rava. He had 4 brothers; in 1914, (he was 16) went to the Austrian army, to the front; was in the Russian front, in Serbia; his brother was in the Ukrainian army; Sichovi stril’tsi; fighting with the Poles; colonel Fedorovych; Bolsheviks; Skoropads’kyi; ending up in Czechoslovakia, in a camp.
Part 2: Staying in Czechoslovakia; when Poles were chased away from Halychyna they started coming back home from Czechoslovakia; pidpil’na viis’kova orhanizatsia; went to Canada in 1927 (Lviv - Warsaw - Gdansk - ???? - Quebec - Winnipeg); working on a farm near Winnipeg; then went to a farm in Saskatchewan; then went to Windsor (???); growing tobacco (??); tobacco prices during Depression; he bought a farm (42.5 acres) for $6000 cash; Catholic church; buying a church building for $50; a member of the Strilets’ka hromada.
Part 3: Strilets’ka hromada; Savchuk; no Catholic church at that time - coming priests; iepyskop Budka; Sushko; Kosar; Haitai (??); Oleksa Hryhorovych; Orthodox church; Ivan Franko Club; attitudes of Ukrainians towards Jews; WWII; Prof. Simpson; creation of CUC in 1941; Kosar; Borots’kyi (??).
Part 4: UPA; Orthodox church; mel’nykivtsi; came to Wellington (??) in 1937 (??); Communists; amature theatre plays; Fr. Levyts’kyi’s (??) visit; Dakash (??); Bandera; Catholics vs Orthodox fights.
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Part 1: Born on May 6, 1903 in the village of Khraplyvtsi near Peremyshl’. His wife’s name is Kateryna Borovs’ka. Polish army in his village. Petliura’ s army. He is Catholic. Came to Canada with his brother in 1927 (from Gdansk to Halifax). Worked on a farm; then in 1932 went to Wellington (??); Ukrainians in Wellington (??); Prosvita & Natsionalne ob’iednannia in Wellington (??); Fr. Levonyts’kyi (??); Beniuk (??); local Communists; Kosar’s visit in 1942 (??); Prosvita; Komorovskyi (??) - the Head of the filia; helping Karpats’ka Ukraina; WWII events; UNO turning its building to the Ivan Franko Club; Vasyl’ Zaichyshyn (??); Dykun (??) - Communist; raising money for the Novyi Shliakh office; Ukrainian newspapers; DPs; only 5 UNO members (Kobylnyk, Kunskyi, Semchyshyn, Derewlany); local church.
Part 2: Local church; Fr. Bairak; Sheptyts’kyi; building Orthodox church in the 1950s, 6 Orthodox families in the beginning; Dim Ivana Franka existed till 1967 when the Ukrainian Centre was built; Ivankiv; 1955 - Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Kredytova Spilka; Banderivtsi; Petliura and Halychyna; Mr. Kozak and building a church; Dr. Rosnyts’kyi (??); Fr. Kusiv (??); Petliura’s death and Jews; Skoropads’kyi’s tour.
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Part 1: Born in 1914 in Halychyna, in a town between Lviv and Ternopil; his father was a POW during the WWI and died soon after release; mother remarried a man with the same last name (Dubas), who went to Canada in 1926, while Michael, his mother and half-sister joined him in 1931; they went on a Samara ship (Warsaw - Belgium - Paris - New York - Montreal - ?????); 1929- Pacification in Halychyna; Semenchiv (??) in Ukrainian community in Canada, helping Karpatska Ukraina; Ukrainians in concentration camps; he is Ukrainian Catholic; local Communists, Mrs. Zavads’ka (??); Dubas’s 5 children; his wife’s (nee - Mykolaichuk); relations of Ukrainians with the French and English in Canada; Bohdan Mykytiuk (??); WWII, Dubas’s brother was in the army; DPs.
Part 2: DPs; Fr. Kravchuk (??); Dubas’ children and Ukrainian identity.
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Jenny was born on September 2, 1913, in Sault Ste. Marie; parents came to Canada long before that. Ukrainian community and church; Fr. Kara (??); Ukrainian school; Jenny is Polish;
UNO; Ukrainian Hall; Robitnychyi Dim; local Communists; Ukrainian newspapers; 1930s - Depression; DPs; Polish Hall; iepyskop Budka consecrating the church; Budka chasing away the Poles from the church; Ukrainian Protestants.
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Part 1: Born on January 17, 1913 in Toronto; his parents came in 1908 from Halychyna; had a brother and 3 sisters; attended Ukrainian classes; after High School decided to be a priest, got a degree in University of Eastern Ontario; he did not know Ukrainian when he went to school; Ukrainian National Federation; Ukrainian Communists, Labor Temple; Dr. Riadkevych(??); Fr. Hryhoriichuk (??); Fr. Coldson (??); Fr. Kryvuts’kyi; Fr. Hryhoriichuk (???) established ???????? students in Toronto; Dzutman on becoming a priest; his parents had personal experience with discrimination; Orthodox church in Toronto; Bishop Kib (??) of London; Fr. Mavryk (???) was a long time secretary to Bishop Ladyka (??); an Eastern Right Day in the seminary; Fr. Labar (??); Ukrainian National Federation and its choir; Mrs. Hlushko (??); the Semchyshyns (??); description of the Ukrainian community of London before the war; working to Portage-La-Prairie; Prosvita in Portage-La-Prairie; CUC; korovai in Ukrainian weddings.
Part 2: Coming to Toronto; services in French Catholic church; 3 parishes in Toronto; Ukrainian carols on the Trans-Canada Ukrainian radio program; Belshinskyi (??) - President for Eastern Canada; Mr. Loratskyi (??) took over the choir; Dr. Kapusta (??); Sudbury after WWII; children summer camp run by the nuns; after Sudbury went to the missionary assistants; then moved to Sault Ste. Catherine (??) - a small parish; then a parish in Hamilton; then to Windsor for 12 years; accommodating to mixed marriages; difference between pre-war and after-war parishes; local Ukrainian Communists; the future of Ukrainian parishes.
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Part 1: Born on February 14, 1916 in Chipman (45 miles to the East of Edmonton), went to school there, the 12th grade in a school in Edmonton; then in St. Joseph’s College - did not finish because of the WWII - went to the army, went to England (intelligence, IAF (???) service). His father was born in 1888 in ?????, came to Canada in 1894 with his mother, while his grandfather was the first Ukrainian in Canada. His mother came to Canada when she was 2 y.o. His parents married in 1915. His father worked worked in the first Ukrainian cooperative (??). Then his father and grandfather bought a farm; then in 1925 father bought a hotel (85 miles to the East from Edmonton). Has 4 sisters and 3 brothers still live in Edmonton. He was married, his son Ilarion lives in Edmonton. In Chipman, learned Ukrainian from the nuns teaching at the school. Belonged to the choir, druzhyna, Ukrainian Catholics; there was a Soiuz ukrainskoi molodi in Chipman; WWII, Canadian-Ukrainian efforts; Panchuk (??); camps of DPs; 2 years staying in Holland; Tarnavetskyi (??), Vasylyshyn (??); CUC; worked for Air Canada (??); troubles with Communists.
Part 2: Kosaryk (??); in 1978 he got his theology degree; strilets’ka hromada; was a member of CUC, Pravoslavna hromada; History of the Institute; buying off the Robinson College (??); Borets’kyi; Dr. Fylypchuk (??); Petro Bergman (??), Hanna Pidruchna (??), Symchych (??), Moroz (??); Dr. Pavlo Matsenko (??); activities of the Institute (choir, orchestra, etc); Elyniak’ community life; his mother was from the Kostiuks family, her father came to Canada in 1900; she belonged to a women’s choir.
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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.
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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.
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Part 1: Nee - Waluk, was born in Ukraine, came to Canada in 1910 when she was almost 6 ; before that her sister Julia Waluk came to Canada in 1908; her sister Natasha (??) came in 1909; then her father Prokopiy Waluk and her mother Ahafiya Waluk, and sister Ann and herself came; they came to Brandon; Irene attended a Roman-Catholic day school, then went to Brandon Institute, became a teacher in the country; experience at the amature theatre; hard life of teachers; first plans for marriage did not materialize because of the religious differences, then she married in 1927 Gayowsky who was a teacher of Ukrainian; changing schools; in 1934 came to Winnipeg; WWI - her was considered an alien and had to report, problems with documents; religion and Ukrainianness; teaching Ukrainian at schools; Labor Temple in Brandon; Orthodox church; her husband got a position with the Institute of Prosvita in 1934; in 1940 they taught at the Ukrainian National Association school; Taras Verbyts’kyi (??) - a Head of choir; Zankovets’kyi (??); in 1916 a Ukrainian school started; children’s mandolin orchestra; students’ club; Women’s group in 1926; Kul’turno-osvitnii komitet.
Part 2: Doroshenko - the book editor; Tracz; Oleksa Pasichniak (??) was in charge of Ridna shkola; Dr. Dyma (??); Prof. Koshets’; CUC; did not teach Ukrainian History at the school; Irene’s husband went to Ukraine after Independence; Kosar; Vasylyshyn (??); Fond dopomohy; Dr. Dackiw; Kokhan (??) - executive director; rev. Sawchuk; DPs and their attitude towards Ukrainians in Canada; opposition to joining CUC; Kushnir; Savchuk; Hlynka.
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Part 1: Came to Canada from Czechoslovakia (was there in 1920) where he came while serving in the Ukrains’ka-Halyts’ka army; born on December 29, 1900 in a village of Pavushyrka (??) in the Chortkiv povit; went to school in his village, then in a gymnasium in Chortkiv, finished a Narodnyi Universytet in Czechoslovakia and a bookkeeping course of a Commercial Cooperative; came to Canada in 1923; there existed Narodnyi Dim, chytal’’nia Prosvita, Prosvita Institute; Bobers’kyi and Nazaruk collected money for the Ukrainian Government in Vienne; Bishop Nykyta Budka delegated Sushko to be an editor of the Kanadiis’”kyi ukrainets’; he had 2 brothers and a sister; his family was Greek-Catholic; was in the 13th regiment (polk) of the Ukrainian Army; worked in the Czech kantseliariia; Samostiinyky; UNO in 1932; Striletska Hromada; Dr. Kushnir; Vasylyshyn; Bachyns’kyi (??); Gospodin belonged to the Komitet dopomohy politvíazniam Ukrainy and lawyer Iefymyshchyn (??) as its Head; Svystun; Fr. Semchuk (??); writer Dmytro Hunkevych (??) and his book Evropa, Hitler i Ukraina” - gathering materials for it with Mandryka (??); Sushko & Labor Temple Association; Prof. Lutsyshyn; writer Irchan was an editor in Robitnychyi Dim; Kulyk (??); Orthodox church; BUC in 1934, Sheptyts’kyi; Fr. Trukh, Fr. Orachko (was ultimately sent away from Canada); Fr. Semchuk (??); SUS, Mandryka, issuing “Holos”; Chytal’nia (appeared in 1925).
Part 2: Chytal’nia; Samostiinyky, SUS, Dr. Pohoretskyi (??); UNO; Doroshenko coming to Winnipeg; Sushko coming to Winnipeg; Ukrains’ka Natsional’na Rada (included 18 organizations) issuing “Visnyk”, Gospodin giving lectures there on cooperation; CUC and Kosar; Tovarystvo ukrains’koi kul’tury (Mandryka was the Head, Gospodin was a secretary); creation of CUC; Kosar; Vasylyshyn; Mandryka; Prof. Simpson (??); Prof. Pavliuchenko in Saskatoon; Stechyshyn (??) the editor of Ukrains’kyi holos; Datskiv (??) het’manets’, was a secretary in the CUC; Bobers’kyi; Kushnir; Sheptyts’kyi choosing his successor; Zahaliichuk (??) - holova Tovarystva uchiteliv and a CUC secretary; Kysylevs’kyi (??); Vasyl’ Svystun (??)and his relations with the Communists; Ms. Mandryka (??) and the Relief Fund.
Part 3: Bachyns’kyi (??) the Head of the local CUC (??); Fifth column; Ukrainian-Canadian Services Association (??); Tsentral’ne dopomohove biuro in England; Stets’ko’s politics; Kushnir; CUC; Bur’ianyk (??); CUC after the end of the WWII; UPA; CUC and BUC (??), Bashuk (??); Chytal’nia; Strilets’ka hromada; Gospodin helping UNO with their building; Kosar, Vasylyshyn and UNO, Tarnavets’kyi (??); future of Ukrainians in Canada; Communists; his wife - Mariia Troian (??) from Winnipeg; DPs; UNO vs Het’mantsi; Prof. Kyslytsia (??); Svystun; Vasylyshyn; Kosar.
Part 4: Creating BUC (??) in Canada as a brunch of the Catholic institution; Chytal’nia’s fight; Fr. Horachko (??) sent away from Canada; Holovko (??) sent in as a secretary; Bishop Budka; Fr. Semchuk (??) - the 1st Head of CUC, too much of a Catholic; Fr. Shums’kyi (??); Budka and his 2 letters; Orthodox community fighting Catholics; Bobers’kyi; Ivan Petroshevych (??) the 1st cooperator, was sent to Paris; Mandryka (??) in CUC; Shapoval the fanatic; viis’kovyi zhurnal “Ukrains’kyi skytalets’” published in Czechoslovakia, with memoirs; Mandryka and DPs; CUC Congress in 1942; Melnychuk - the Head of the local BUC (??); Fr. Kushnir had democratic views; Chytal’nia and fights around it, once had over 100 members, activities, Poles visiting Chytal’nia.
Part 5: Chytal’nia activities; UNO asking Gospodin about help for their Hall; Mr. Kokhan (??) centralized CUC; Stavchevs’kyi (??); Kokhan a good diplomat; Tovarystvo ukrains’kykh uchyteliv; Vasyl’ Trukh (??); Horiachko (??); a discussion with Trukh (??) in 1934; Orthodox church; his friends returning from Czechoslovakia to USSR; Dr. Stakhiv (??); future of Ukrainians in Canada; Gospodin’s publications in journals (penname A. Hermes); him being for 12 years in Komitet dopomohy politv’iazniam - a letter from Fr. Kulyts’kyi (??); his huge work in Czechoslovakia; editor Pohoretskyi (??); Vasyl’ Topol’nyts’kyi; Dr. Huliay (??) - all were dismissed later.
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Part 1: Born in 1902 in the village of Toporivtsi, in Horelenka povit, Halychyna; his wife - Mariia Markovs’ka; he came to Canada on June 15, 1928; WWI events, occupation of Halychyna and Subcarpathia, Austrian army; he had 10 siblings; he returned from the army in 1925, married in 1927; Sotsialistychna radykal’na partiia; went to Canada with 2 his neighbours (Gdansk - Liverpool - London - Quebec), then via Winnipeg to Kryla(???); trip cost $180 + $50 “for the show”; then came to work to Prince Island - Jasek Morawsky(??); Ukrainian identity; Sichovi stril’tsi, Chytal’nia; going to Prince Island; Vasyl’ Vasylyniuk; hard manual labor on a construction of a mill (??).
Part 2: Hard work in a mine, was fired; coming to a town of Depres (??) in 1930; elections in 1930; working 75 miles way from Port Church (constructing roads), quitting; going to Winnipeg; Robitnycha orhanizatsia in Dupas (??) in 1930; Communists; his sister came to Canada in 1930; Vasyl’ Horobets’ (??); priests; his sister helped him to get a job; nationalists built their hall in Hudson Bay; back to working in a mine; Robitnychyi Dim (Vasyl’ Mykytiv (??), Ivan Markovs’kyi, Stefan Kryzh, Ivan Parastiuk, Vasyl’ Maiborod (??)), he was a secretary for a short time.
Part 3: Robitnychyi Dim, Communists; when Gryschuk was a Secretary, Vasyl’ Mandryk was the Head; women’s section of Robitnychyi Dim; WWII, Police suspecting Communists from their organization; unions, union strikes; Hutchinson (??), looking for a job in Timmins during the strike; elections at the Robitnychyi Dim; plays in the amature thatre; finding jobs for Communists; DPs; Konovalets’; WWII, Stalin’s Pact with Hitler; Skrypnyk; Gryschuk’s visit to Ukraine; strike in Timmins in 1953 (3 months long); a coop in Timmins; turning their Hall into a museum of Ukrainian culture.
Part 4: Narodnyi Dim; connections with other ethnic groups; local church (priest fled to the USA in 1936 after a scandal); history of religion: Bishop Iosyf Akutsynskyi (??); haiduky and turning Orthodox people into Catholics.
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Part 1: Born on December 12, 1912, in the area of Michyn (????); his father Vasyl’ Hawrysh went to Canada from Horodenka in 1909; his mother’s nee is Nazarkiv (??), from Horodenka; father first settled in Michyn (??) (where his other co-villagers have settled), bought a homestead, then brought over Nicholas’ mother and sister; the family was Greek-Catholic; Western Michyn (??) was predominantly Ukrainian, there also were Norwegians, French and Germans; organized life proliferated in 1909-1910; Chytal’nia in Michyn (??); subscribed newspapers from Ukraine and USA, “Holos”; his father brought his library from Ukraine with him; school in Michyn (??) was called after Myroslav Sichyns’kyi; theatre plays; Nicholas was a teacher; his teachers were mostly Englishmen but some were Ukrainians (Mr. Sklianka); Nicholas finished 11 grades and went to the Instytut (???) in Saskatoon; his father was among those who created that Institute; his father became Orthodox for political reasons; he came to Institute in 1930 when Stechyshyn was its Rector; after graduating Nicholas went back to Michyn (??); Institute history; membership in “Kameniari”.
Part 2: Rector Stechyshyn; separate sections for girls and guys in the Institute; newspapers in the Institute; students protests; WWII events, Hawrysh went to the army, was in England; meeting Panchuk in London in Ukrainian Service; Panchuk’s wife, Cherniavs’ka; Dr. Savchuk; Hawrysh returned to Canada (to Michyn (???)) in 1945; continued his teaching career in the “Carpathian School” (for 2 years); then went to Saskatoon; DPs and disappointment; Liha vyzvolennia; CUC, Prof. Pavliuchenko; Ukrainian Orthodox in Canada.
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Part 1: Born on November 9, 1918, in Toronto; his parents came from the Halychyna before WWI and settled in Toronto; there was a Ukrainian community and St. Josephate church in that part of Toronto; his father became a butcher, was active in the church; Michael attended daily Ukrainian school classes (from 5pm till 7pm) - teachers: Mr. Yarechkiv (??), Mostovyi (??), Bilyk; frictions and fists fights between Ukrainian political groups; his father was in the Hetmanat movement, his uncle Boyko (??) was in higher ranks of the organization; feeling inferior to Englishmen, Ukrainian culture being recognized; Prosvita; teachers in Ukrainian school; antagonism between churches and organizations induced by priests; Catholic Svystun organizing Orthodox people; UNO; the strong cultural organization “Ukrainian People ???? Court (???)” - Kapusta’s uncle, Mr. Metelskyi (??) gravitated to it; Kapusta got a dental degree in Toronto University, then medical degree in Ottawa; Ukrainian Student Club - Dr. Kucherepa (??) instigated its organization in about 1939, Froliak (??); WWII - sentiments towards Germans; Shandruk (??); staying clear from parents’ persuasions; community’s reaction to the Famine and Konovalets’ assassination; Bishop Ladyka (??); Kapusta graduated in 1943 and went to the army; after the army he lost interest in Ukrainian affairs; Ukrainian Canadian Services Association in London; Stepan ??????.
Part 2: Stepan ??? helping the DPs; Kapusta and forced repatriation of DPs; being Sergeant in the army during the WWII; meeting Mosnyts’kyi (??); Service Corps and DPs camps; Kukharyshyn (??) an active Het’manets’; Soviets kidnapping people from DP camps and other atrocities regarding DPs; Dr. Harper (??) was very sympathetic to the Ukrainian cause; DPs and different camp zones; Dr. Grenko (??) from Winnipeg accompanied Kapusta; Fr. Izhyk (??) in a camp; Panchuk, Froliak, Fr. Kushnir visited DP camps; DPs and antagonism among them (Mel’nykivtsi vs Bandarivtsi); DPs not wanting to return to the USSR - Kapusta helping to prevent forced repatriation, interpreter on the Commission warning him about upcoming raids ; how raids were happening; CUC as a hope for unifying Ukrainians; Kushnir not being flexible enough; Kapusta returned to Canada in 1946, took another course at Ottawa; his wife’s brother is a parish priest in Toronto.
Part 3: Kapusta’s disillusionment in Ukrainian cause; DPs coming to Canada; Kucherepa (??) and CUC; Pavliuk in Toronto; Ukrainian Communists in Canada (e.g., Labor Temple in Toronto); early Ukrainian cooperatives in Toronto and bookstores; Dr. Buriak active in Ukrainian affairs; Ukrainian community figures - priests were the most influential; Ukrainian churches and Communists in Canada; Fr. Semotiuk was eventually disliked by the Catholic community and converted to Orthodoxy in Oshawa; church picnics in Toronto; BUC (??); church hall and activities; Kapusta’s children.
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Part 1: Nee - Skubynski (??). Born in 1914; father was an Orthodox from Bukovyna (came to Canada in 1907) and mother a Catholic from Halychyna (came in 1908); parents married in 1910; no religious quarrels in the family; Ukrainian communion; Fr. Buchyns’kyi (??); attitudes of other ethnic groups towards Ukrainians; Prosvita; social activities in Ukrainian community (picnics, plays, social dances, choir, church concerts); Prosvita - Catholic children then. Karasevich became strong Orthodox after her marriage. Bishop Khimii (??) - her relative and a secretary to the Pope (??); her husband voluntarily went to the war; WWII events; her husband Ivan Karasevich came to Winnipeg in 1921 to study at the University of Manitoba, and stayed at Skubynski’s house (Ivan’a father had a farm in Sich, Manitoba); they married in 1935; Vasyl Svystun was running a Bursa in Winnipeg; student group “Prometei”; SUMC; Hetmantsi; Karasevich a member of SUMC.
Part 2: Svystun as a person; a scandal over transmitting Sluzhba Bozha over a radio; UNO helping during the WWII; Fr. Kushnir was a friend of her mother; CUC engaging the most of educated Ukrainians; Semen Savchuk (??); Myroslav Stechyshyn (??); Ivan Karasevich went overseas in 1941, to England, and returned in 1944; Ukrainian Veterans’ Organization; Marie gave $500 for founding a Ukrainian Legion (??); Panchuk and DPs; Vasylyshyn; DPs coming to Canada; Dr. Mandryka was pushed out from the organization; some DPs not appreciating other Ukrainians in Canada; Marie did not want certain things on tape: about her father-in-law, Bishop Khmii’s brother, and Svystun.
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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.
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Part 1: Born in Ternopil’ oblast’, Terebovlia raion, a village of Kobylyky (now Zhovtneve), on December 30, 1901; his wife is Mariia Dukhnits’ka (??), she is from the same village; he went to a school in his village till 1914; in 1917 he was conscripted to the Ukrains’ka halyts’ka armiia; underwent military training in Ternopil’; escaped from a POW camp, was hiding; in 1921 was conscripted in the Polish Army, served 18 months in Chenstochow; in 1925 came home and left for Canada (Antwerp - St. John in New Brunswick); had relatives in Winnipeg and started working on a railway; then went to Fort Frances (???) to work at a paper plant (??); there his friend and relative Mykhailo Halandzhi (??) introduced him to Ukrainian organizations; Karpish in 1926 became a member of a political organization and of Ukrains’kyi farmers’kyi Dim; in 1928 went to Winnipeg for a 6 months course; Prosvita in St. Frances; cultural-education work of organizations in St. Frances; Andriy Dorets’kyi (??); Kaprish visited Ukraine 4 times, the most recent visit in 1979; discrimination towards Ukrainians at the beginning; after St. Frances went to Brantford, ON; after Depression began he went to a place Thor (??) near St. Catherine’s, was working in a cooperative; then moved to ?????Kilkanyk(????) in 1931-32; protests (“bread or job!”), arrests, and deportations; protests against Polonization of Western Ukraine, Tovarystvo dopomohy vyzvil’nomu rukhu na Zakhidnii Ukraini (ToDoVyRnaZU); dopomoha poterpilym vid poveni; Strilets’ka hromada; OUN-UNO; an attack on the Robitnychyi Dim; in 1933 Karpish was teaching in Ottawa; voting for the uprava; from 1934 through 1939 Karpish was in Sudbury; then the Central Committee sent him to Biltmore (??) where a Robitnychyi Dim was to be built; Central Committee: Ivan Boychuk (??) the Secretary, Popovych, Vavizivs’kyi (??), Shatul’s’kyi, etc); the Central Committee was later transferred from Winnipeg to Toronto; in Annie Molt Road (??) where Ukrainian farmers had own Farmers’ Organization.
Part 2: Ukrainian community in Ottawa; Strilets’ka hromada; WWII - Hitler-Stalin Pact; Kaprish was teaching in Geraldton (??); working in a Committee dopomohy syrotam, Chervoniy armii, got an award for that; Government confiscating Robitnychi Domy and transferring them to the Nationalists groups; he worked in a mine in Bidart (??), got there an ulcer and went to Winnipeg to recover; then worked in a cooperative, then in an evening school teaching Ukrainian language, music, and History; taking 6-months courses in Winnipeg in 1928 and 1936 (teachers: Tsymbay (??), Dr. Hrach (??), Petro Prokopchak): History of Ukraine, political economy, geography, music, arithmetics, grammar, ets; amature theater plays they staged (Natlka-Poltavka, Ne khody, Hrytsiu; comedies; then later Soviet plays); Shevchenko concert and other big name people’s concerts; 1st Soviet delegation came to Canada in 1945; Soviet Ambassador granting citizenship of Soviet Ukraine to Ukrainians in Canada; Communist Party in Canada; UNO and Banderivtsi causing troubles for Narodnyi Dim; DPs in Canada; CUC; Lobayivtsi group (???); Lobay; Matviy Popovych; Lobay was an editor of “Robitnychi visti”; problems with DPs; changing the name of Narodnyi Dim; Orhanizatsia vzajemodopomohy; Women’s section, Youth section in Robitnychyi Dim and their functions (Vynohradova, Tsukarenko, Moychukova); holod in Ukraine in 1933 (not Holodomor!); Karpats’ka Ukraina as a funny joke; Komitet slov’ian - Karpish was its secretary in 1954.
Part 3: Komitet slov’ian and its functions; 1st Delegation from Soviet Ukraine in the 1950s; Cold War events; Sudbury - International ???? Company; Robitnychyi Dim built in 1918 - initially was called “Prosvita im. Ivana Franka”; present-day activities; mandolin orchestra; Communist Party in Canada.
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Part 1: Born on July 5, 1918 in Yellow Creek; had to shorten his last name; his father came to Canada in 1911, mother came to Canada in 1914 with 3 sons (landed in Boston because the ship was redirected because of the war); family was Catholic; Fr. Kulyk and a new church of Petra i Pavla built in 1933; Kaye’s father was from Halychyna; Kaye went to a Ukrainian school; reading books; concerts and plays in a Hall; his first teacher Makloy (??); Panchuk as a teacher; school, Ukrainian language classes after school but no Ukrainian during the classes; Stratiichuk (??), Layba (??); Mohyla Institute; coming to Saskatoon in 1933 to a meeting as a delegate from SUMC, speeches by Stechyshyn, Lazarovych, Dr. Boykovych, Dr. Dragan (??), rev. Savchuk, Solomon, the Bishop; came to Mohyla Institute as a student in 1935; in 1937 went to the University of Saskatoon; Sheptyts’kyi Institute; Prof. Simpson; CUC; Kaye joined the Airforce in February 1941; London and Ukrainian Canadian Service Association; Ukrainian Social Club in Manchester.
Part 2: Visiting graves of the fallen Ukrainian soldiers; came back to Canada in January 1944; Mrs. Panchuk (??); Helen Kozicky; Semelsky (??); Mr. Panchuk; was given an extended leave and went to the McGill University; Ukrainian Selfreliance; Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans’ Association; CUC sponsored his tour (10 weeks); Panchuk as too nationalistic; Bishop Vasyliiv (??); UNO; he returned to Saskatoon after the end of WWII, finished the University, teaching at schools; DPs’ impact.
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Part 1: His family was Catholic but converted into Orthodoxy; he has a BA; attended a regular Canadian school (teachers Havryniuk (??); Fr. Savchuk); all students were Ukrainian but had to hide Ukrainian books outside of school; Ukrainian classes from 4pm till 5pm; after 8 Grade went to High School in Saskatoon in 1928; Rector Yulian Stechyshyn (??) of the Mohyla Institute; Instytut Sheptyts’koho; Tymashchuk (??) from Ottawa; Terishchuk (??); Margus (??); ????forb (??); History lectures at the Institute; about 120 students of both sexes; student life; SUS; competition with UNO; SUMC; Bohdan Panchuk; he started teaching near Saskatoon in town Lenya (??) from 1934-35 through 1942-43; CUC; Panchuk; DPs; Vynnychenko - chlen rady; Fr. Stopniak (??); Ukrainian Communists; Institute now and then; library in Narodnyi Dim; “Ukrains’kyi holod”, “Vistnyk”; SUS helping; Hasan (??) the conductor at the Institute, baritone, used to sing in the Koshyts’ choir; change of the school organization - decline of Ukrainian schools.
Part 2: Ukrainians schools “Kolomyia” and “Kyiv”; 4 Ukrainian schools run by Knashchuk (??), Kystiuk (??), Dymeryha (??), and Kindrachuk; very active Ukrainian life; conscription issues during WWII; Stechyshyn - Head of SUS in Saskatoon; Sechuk (??); Dr. Boykovych (??); Dr. Drygan; Hnatyshyn (??); Stechyshyn; Stratiychuk (??).
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Part 1 and Part 2: Born on June 11, 1909 in a village of Rukhiv. Greek-Catholic faith. His father decided to come to a farm in Canada (Manitoba) when John was 6 months old. His mother died when he finished the 4th grade. Had to do all the chores around the house. His father did not belong to any organization because he was illiterate. At 18 y.o. left home and went to earn money, but there was the Depression already. Soup kitchen for unemployed. There were some organizations during Depression. City gave little work for married people but not for singles. Those could be sent to work on a farm for $5/month. John was working this way on various farms through Saskatchewan for about 10 years. In 1939 he went to Ontario, [Port Arthur] where he worked in a bush. Those who were able to bribe, got better strips of the bush. Did not want to join the army when the war started. So, he went to Winnipeg. Worked on a dining car till they found out who he was. Got a uniform in 1943. Underwent training in [Shiro], MB. From there he was sent to Newfoundland. But he ran away to Regina to hide. When the war was over he turned himself up and got 9 months of detention but was released after 4.5 months. From 1949 worked at a CPR.
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Part 1: Born in Cobalt, Ontario, on October 5, 1915; family name was initially Koliaska; soon after his birth family moved North, to a farm, where there were 3 other Ukrainian families, Poles - their name became Polonized; in Timmins the only Ukrainian organization was Ukrainian Labor Farmer Temple Association; John attended Ukrainian school there for about 2 years (he was 8-9 y.o.); then went back to the farm; left his home in 1932, went to Timmins, then, after his father was hurt in a mine, went to Ottawa, stayed at a place for unemployed single men; worked in a bakery, then apprenticed to a printer and paper hanger (??); in 1939 went to Toronto and then moved to Winnipeg in 1941; by that time he finished grade 10; worked at a machine shop and studied; in 1942 he finished grade 12 and did 1 year of the United College (??), and after that went to Saskatoon where completed his BA, and then did his MA in History in Toronto; his parents came in 1913 from Bukovyna and were Orthodox; Cobalt, Timmins - pro-Socialist areas, centers of radicalism; Ivan Panchyshyn was interned from Cobalt during WWI; his father was a farmer and a miner during winters; a process of becoming a Communist; people in the Canadian establishment who were Communists; lies about the USSR, Duranti; his mother and other women in Timmins belonged to Ukrainian pro-Communist women’s organizations; Polish priest Frank Selynski (??); Jewish-Ukrainian relations, Misha Korol’ (??); Dave Kashton (??); Dubrovsky (??); Stewart Smith - leader of Communist Party; ULFTA; Matthew Popovych and his article “Za bolshevizatsiiu” in 1931; Prokopchuk; Danylo Lobai and Toma Kobzai (??); Shatul’s’kyi; Popovych; Boychuk; Nemizivs’kyi (???).
Part 2: Shatulskyi (??); Kobzei (??), Lobay (??); Simbay (??); John Wier (??); Irchan; Pohoreckyi (??); WWII and Communists in Canada; he was on a Provincial Committee of the Association of the United Ukrainian Canadians, helped to organized a trio of Myroslav Stychynskyi (??); was a member of Progressive Party (PP) Club [Labor Progressive Party, later became a Communist Party) at the U of Saskatchewan; party members George Taylor (??) and Clifford Pit (??); WWII conscription among Ukrainians in Canada; Svystun; Orest Savchuk; UNO; Samoskiinyky; Kushnir; CUC; internment of Communists; Raymond Davis/Shohan (??); Veletskyi (??); Workers Benevolent Association; Strilets’ka Hromada; Svystun and Khrushchev; Tim Buck (??); Kolasky went to Ukraine in 1963 till 1965 - disillusionment; Kravchuk and Prokopchyk (??); Kolasky wrote a book after his visit - the scandal; Biletskyi (??).
Part 3: His book and the scandal around it; AUC (Association of Ukrainian Canadians) name change; DPs coming and Canadian Communists being against it - Prokopchyk report to the Convention; a bomb in a building (??); Guzenko (??); UNO; DPs matters; officer Robertson (??); Simpson (??) and his interest in Ukraine; Watson Crocomlain (???); Prof. Pavliuchenko; Mykhailo Hetman (??); ULFTA and Hetmantsi; Bosyi (??) in Montreal; Dr. Mandryka; Vasylyshyn from UNO; Julian Stechyshyn as the most able of brothers, Mykhailo Stechyshyn, Myroslav Stechyshyn; John Solomon (??); Panchuk; Hlynka and Kushnir supporting DPs coming to Canada; Volodymyr Kokhan; DPs’ impact on Ukrainian community; the fate of Ukrainians in Canada; Ted Kardash (??); Soviet Secret Police, sending books through Society for Cultural Relations.
Part 4: Sending books through the Society for Cultural Relations; stealing documents in Ukraine; Dziuba; he was arrested in Ukraine; writing to Senator Yuzyk and Mykola Hnativ in Winnipeg, Stechyshyn, Pohoreliv; Dr. Kysylevs’kyi (??); Shevchenko monument as a means of raising prestige.
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Part 1: Real name - Kolyshir; came to Canada on June 8, 1928, to Saskatoon; was conscripted to the army in 1925-1926; was born in a village near Kolomyia; was born in 1903; there were many people in Saskatoon from his village; Prosvita Hall in Saskatoon; Mohyla Institute; Strilets’ka Hromada; 1932 - Bratske Tovarystvo katolykiv; Bosyi in Hetmanska hromada, Kolysher was its secretary; members paid $3 per year; Het’manets’ moved to Saskatoon in 1937; Julian Stechyshyn; Zarebko (??) and Lypyns’kyi; CUC and Het’mantsi; bezrobitna orhanizatsiia pry parafii; Fr. Hrebiniuk; CUC, Pravoslavna hromada, UNO, Hetmanska orhanizatsiia in Saskatoon; Bratstvo ukrainskykh katolykiv; Bosyi; a visit of Het’manets’; Kosar; Ukrainian Communists; rentin Book store for meetings of UNO and Strilets’ka hromada; at a farm near Evton (??) organized a viddil of ??????; BUC (??) appeared in 1932; Panchuk.
Part 2: (talking about people on a picture): Fedir Konoval’chuk; Fr. Mykhaylo Palekh (??); Petro Kulyshir; Koval’chuk; Vasyl’tsiv; Kushniryk; Stefan Hnalyi (??) - his son is married to Savaryn’s daughter; Shalyi (??); Sasyns’kyi (??); Ivan Kostiuns’kyi (??); Saranchuk; Fedir Ralyk (??); Ivan Shchublyk (??); Ivan Derba; Mykola Shabaga (??); Petro Krylets’kyi (???); creation of BUC in Saskatoon in 1932; Samostiinyky and Orthodox church; CUC creation, Fr. Kushnir; Prof. George Simpson; Corconal (??); Dr. Pavliuchenko; Prof. Andrusyshyn; Congresses of CUC; Ukrainian Canadians during WWI and WWII; DPs coming to Canada (expectations and reality); meetings of the Het’mantsi; Mykhailo Het’man; women in Het’mans’ka orhanizatsiia (Anna Ravs’ka) but no women’s section; Bosyi; Dobrovil’ne Tovarystvo was created on November 5, 1936 (parafiial’nis pravy) as a helping medium, Pushchak (??) - one of the founders of BUC; Kosar; Kredytova spilka in 1937; Vasyl’tsiv was the Head; Tkachuk; helping Karpats’ka Ukraina.
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Born on July 14 (??) 1906 in a village of Pidhorody (??), Rohatyn povit; she is Greek-Catholic; her father was a farmer but her mother’s brothers were judges and priests; Olga finished school and started a gymnasium when her father died; she was an amature artist and also sang in a church choir; persecution of Ukrainian language; came to Canada in 1930; worked in a cooperatyv; Prosvita; Pacification in Western Ukraine; went to Canada through England and Germany; UNO; married in 1930; sent her children to a Ukrainian school; in 1933 she joined the OUN in Canada; Samostiinyky and BUC causing troubles for OUN; Het’mantsi; Kormanevych (??); Kapustians’kyi (??); Fr Pelekh; discrimination against Ukrainians in Canada; UNO (??) Hall; women’s section in UNO; Kosar and his attitudes toward DPs; influence of DPs; Vynnychenko (??); Ridna shkola (50-60 students); Novyi shliakh moving to Winnipeg; CUC, Prof. Simpson; Prof. Phillips; Communists; why UNO “ob’iednannia”; future of Ukrainians in Canada.
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Part 1: Born in 1906 in a village of Pidhorody, Rohatyn povit; came to Canada in 1928, to Saskatoon; immediately got a job in the organization of Ukrainian Catholics; Kosar; was offered to be a member of the Strilets’ka hromada but he could not accept; before his emigration was persecuted; Oleksa Hnatiuk; Ivashchuk; he worked at the Hnatiuk’s restaurant; Sushko taught them History; Verbyts’kyi; visit of Konovalets’ in 1939; Strilets’ka hromada; General Korbanovych (??); Fr. Ivashko (??); priests against nationalism back then; CUC, Prof. Simpson and Prof. Chekailo (??); Het’mantsi; Samostiinyky; Novyi shliakh; attepts to free Bandera in 1934.
Part 2: Raising money to free Bandera in 1934; Novyi shliakh; Dr. Pohoretskyi (??); big UNO community; Ridna shkola; 1st Head - Kotliarovs’kyi; Konopka was on committees; Kosar; UNO; Mrs. Pavliuchenko; WWII, Communists; Prof. Pavliuchenko; Sushko and Hrybins’kyi were sent to Ukraine surreptitiously; secret channels of information from Ukraine; Vasylyshyn, member of UVO and OUN; Banerivtsi; DPs and their political affiliations, Proshak; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO.
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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.
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Part 1: Born in a village of Ruda (??), povit Rohatyn (??), in 1896; he is Orthodox but family was Catholic in Ukraine; he had 4 siblings; his mother was Mariia Kukuruz (nee); his father was Dmytro Korda; he finished the village school; in 1915 he was conscripted in the army - was in Austria, in cavalry; in 1917 went to the Italian front; Ukrains’ki vyzvol’ni zmahannia - Ukrains’ka halyts’ka armiia; Polish prison; life under Poland; Jewish question; came to Canada for economic reasons in 1926 - he was the first in his village to go; had to borrow $200 for the travel; came through Hamburg; work and life of a new immigrant in Canada.
Part 2: Life and work in Canada in the beginning, no help from Ukrainians; working for a German man; he became a member of the Strilets’ka hromada in 1936, was a Secretary there; Strilets’ka hromada’s Hall; fights with the Orthodox community; UNO, fights with Communists; Fr. Kubert (???); Het’mantsi; Banderivtsi; Communists in Saskatoon; a school in Natsional’nyi Dim (teachers nuns, Kosareva (??), Babuts’ka (??), Chepans’ka (??), Romanova (??); Kormanovych (??); Konovalets’; Sushko; Tusal’s’kyi (??); DPs; Novyi shliakh moving to Winnipeg, Kosar; Pavliuchenko; Komitet Vidrodzhennia UNO in 1959-60, riot; his wife’s nee is Papirko, she is from the same village Ruda, was present during the interview.
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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.
Recording is interrupted by the airplanes flying near.
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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.
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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.
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Part 1: Born on July 24, 1905; his father was a Ukrainian priest; Anatol was the oldest of 7 children; father died of typhus soon after the WWI when Anatol was 14; after school, he studied at a bursa and was very poor; was composing poetry early in life - published his first works while at the 8 Grade; was multilingual; was arrested and wrote poetry in a prison; Bohdan Pidhainyi (???); Mykola Romanovych (??); belonged to a partisan Plast organization (and arrested for it); UPA; Ukrains’ka viis’kova orhanizatsia; Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; poet Chushko (??); Communist and Nationalist circles in classes; Anatol hang political leaflets; had good grades and enrolled in Law studies; was conscripted in the army and was serving for the kasovyi starshyna (??); publishing his poems in the Ukrainian press (Novyi chas, 1928); his book The Land (1964).
Part 2: Arrest and a prison in Berezhany; starving in protest; OUN; gymnasium hard life, earning money by writing; studies at the Lviv University; working at the newspapers, censorship; Halychyna population supporting OUN; Communists and Soviet power; OUN ideology and general political situation; OUN and Jews; him being arrested by Polish army in 1927; Druzhyny ukrains’kykh natsionalistiv’s methods; OUN network; Kokhan, UNDO (??); Sokal’shchyna - bastion natsionalizmu; Paliy (??) - UNO; Romaniv in Sokal’; Kurdydyk was wounded and transferred to Ukrainian lands under Germans; Poles and Jews; a prison in Korostiv (??).
Original recording from January 20 was not saved on side A; this is, as Luciuk explains, a repeated recording of the Kurdydyk’s youth years.
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Part 1: Churches in Oshawa; Starshevs’kyi (??) the great person; Sosnovs’kyi; Alberman (??); Strielts’ka hromada in Edmonton; rivalry between Hlynka and Decore; building a Hall; Senator Yuzyk; Magera (???); Laybak (???); Stechyshyn, “Kredo”; Kosar; Hlytay (??); posviachennia praporu Sichovykh stril’tsiv by Colonnel Kurmanovcyh (??).
Part 2: Pavliuk (??); Colonel Moran (??); DPs and conflicts with them; Mel’nykivtsi taking over the UNO; Pavliuchenko; Kosar; Yuzyk; Semen Hladun (??); Kosar as a Head of UNO; Dmytro Suvanets’ (??) from Edmonton; Pohoretskyi (??) the Editor; Vasyl’ Rulyk (??); publishing house moving from Saskatoon to Winnipeg, buying a building for it; usunennia Kosaria; editor of “Slovo”, Rossokha (??); 1960 - Komitet na ozdorovlennia UNO in Winnipeg; Klub ukrains’kykh-kanadiis’kykh voiakiv; Davydovych; Andrukhovych in Saskatoon (son of a priest) in RCMP; CUC; Kosar as a unifier.
Part 2: NO sound till 5:25.
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Part 1: Her parents were from Halychyna; after arriving to Canada her father stayed in the Port Arthur’s area; her father was conscious of his Ukrainianness; Depression hardships; evening Ukrainian school in Canada, teacher Drabyk (??), girls mandoline group; Kravchuk; Panchyshyn; she was sent to Winnipeg for a 6-months instruction and then moved to Regina; she was teaching at a Ukrainian school then; proud to be Ukrainian in Canada; went to visit Ukraine in 1956 (??); teaching in Thunder Bay; Winnipeg College Fond (?????) in 1936 - Hutsuliak, Prokopchuk (the Director of the College); daily regiment, classes, and social life at the College; her father-in-law was the founder of the Workers Benevolent organization in Regina.
Part 2: Political education (awareness of the USSR, Ukrainian SSR); in 1922 they collected money to assist the starving in the USSR; Lobay and Kobzey leaving LFTA; John Kolasky (his book and statements); Communist Party of Canada (CPC); loss of the property of the Communist organizations in Canada; LFTA and Stalin’s ally, Hitler; Association of Ukrainian Canadians; collecting money for helping USSR during WWII; CUC creation and LFTA; LFTA membership; Workers Benevolent Association (she became a member in 1928 when she was 16); DPs and their impact on LFTA; visit to Ukraine in 1956, official delegation.
Part 3: Visit to Ukraine in 1956; DPs about the USSR; Ukrainian Labor Temple changed its name into Ukrainian Culture Centre; LFTA concerns.
Mostly illegible - very soft voice plus loud noises.
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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.
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Part 1: Born - unclear when or where; Creek-Catholic; his father got married and went to the USA (to Mississippi) in 1913, then the WWI began, and father got sick and died in USA; Moskvofily; Wasyl took part in vyzvol’ni zmahannia, Ukrains’ka armiia; he went to Canada in 1926 - cost him $500; came to Winnipeg; Ukrains’kyi holos; working on a farm in Saskatoon; working on CPR; Communists and Robitnychyi Dim in Winnipeg; discrimination against Ukrainians; his wife came to Canada during the Depression (nee Tsaps’ka (??)); relations between Ukrainians and Poles; life in Kenora.
Part 2: Work on CPR; moving to Victoria after WWII; Ukrainian Catholic church in Victoria; Fr. Makukh (??); CUC; future of Ukrainians in Canada.
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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.
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Part 1: Born on September 21, 1916 in Chapleau (???), Ontario; his present wife is Jean Bennett (??), was married twice, has 6 children; his parents were from Ternopil’; his father came to Canada just before 1914, settled down in Northern Ontario; eventually moved to Windsor; he is Greek-Catholic; went to public school and High School, attended Ukrainian school classes; he belonged to Ukrainian National Federation and Ukrainian Youth Organization; Fr. Olenchuk was a priest when Fran was an altar boy - St. Vladimir and Olga Ukrainian church in Windsor; Het’mantsi; Orthodox group in Windsor; Frank played in the school orchestra, Harry Pavoroznyk (??) came from Europe; discrimination against Ukrainians - episode with the school principal; went to a Medical school in 1936, graduated in 1942; Danylo Skoropadskyi coming to Windsor; his uncle came after the war, joined UNO; Zorianyi (??) was a President for many years; Zeleniv (??); Communists and Labor Temple in Windsor; MUN (?) Convention in Toronto; UNO branch in Windsor: Taras Martyniuk, Joseph Ievorsky (??), Dosklach (??); Kosar came to Windsor several times; Mr. Hontar’ from Toronto; Senator Yuzyk; Frank’s 40th Anniversary of MUN speech; Pavliuk from UNO; Frank’s contacts with Ukrainians overseas - Veterans Association.
Part 2: During his London medical school time - associated with the Symphony orchestra and Canadian Officers Training Corp, out of Ukrainian life; return to Windsor, got involved in Ukrainian affairs; met Panchuk and Froliak in London; Kushnir in London; Danylo Skoropadskyi; CUC; Dr. Kysylevskyi (??); Tracy Phillips (??); Frank supported Froliak; Fr. Kushnir; coming to Hamilton, getting away from Ukrainian Catholic church; Dr. Pylypiuk in Hamilton, starting a medical practice; DPs coming to Canada; him as a President of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee in 1967-68.
Part 3: Kiries (??), Bohdan Korchewskyi (??); Dr. KLymasz; Pavliuk; Polaznyk in Ukrainian National Federation; Centennial Project, Centennial Book, Shevchenko Foundation covering the expenses; Yaremovych (??) from CUC offered him to be a delegate to Ukrainian World Congress in Toronto - becoming nominated for executive positions; a course on accounting to be a Treasure; English as the language of the Congress financial statement; Frank as the President of the Ukrainian Professional Business Club of Hamilton.
Part 4: Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans Legion Club; Smolskyi (??), Klymasz, Lazarovych; Ukrainian Research Foundation, Steve Pavliuk; Panchuk tried to incorporate all Ukrainian veterans; War Veterans Association for newcomers; 1946 convention of the Ukrainian veterans, Panchuk, John Yuzyk; CUC in Hamilton after WWII; John Olchary (??); Ukrainian-Jewish Foundation (??) - becoming its Chairman through Pavliuk; a publication about contributions of Ukrainians in the WWI and WWII - Kecherovskyi (??) gathering information; a book by Dr. K (??); Ukrainian-Canadian Professional and Business Club in Hamilton started in 1965, Dr. Pylypiuk.
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Part 1: Liha Politychnykh v’iazniv; Tovarystvo Politv’iazniv; Mel’nyk, OUN; Pavlykovs’kyi; Bishop Buchko (??); UPA sviatkuvannia 1948; visiting concentration camps looking for political prisoners; Martynets’, Mykhailo Bazhans’kyi; “persha linia” vs “druha liniia” in camps; influence of the camps of Ukrainians; Canada as a destination country; Marunchak has a brother Vasyl’ in Canada; pan Tliuka (???) from UNO; DPs in Canada; Maruhcnak became a member of Narodnyi Dim; Viktor Mazanets’ (??) came to Canada; Marunchak arrived to Winnipeg; he was a member of Liha Vyzvolennia Ukrainy.
Part 2: His membership in various organizations; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; CUC, opposition to CUC; Mel’nykivtsi vs Banderivtsi; the nationalism question; Orthodox community.
Part 3: Ukrainian churches; CUC discussion; Uchytel’s’ka orhanizatsiia in 1907 (??).
Part 3 - very weak voice and loud noises.
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Part 1: Born on June 26, 1912 in Halychyna (Buchachtskyi povit, village of Spilka (??)), Greek-Catholic; he had 2 brothers and 3 sisters; moskvofily, Tovarystvo im. Kachkovskoho; “Prosvita” in the village; vyzvol’ni zmahannia - Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; Jews in the village and relations with them; he went to a school in the village first and then a gymnasium in Buchach; in 1933 he finished gymnasium; everyday life during the Depression; theological seminaries; in 1935, he went to the Lviv University, university life and political situation.
Part 2: University life; went to Zagreb to study; student circles in the gymnasium; gymnasium disciplines; Mariis’ka druzhyna (??); he became a member of OUN; Pacification events; rusofil’s’ki nastroi during the WWI, Austrian politics.
Part 2 - very loud technical noises.
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Part 1: Born on August 6, 1929 in Canada; his father came around 1912-1913 to Winnipeg and then brought his wife in 1927; Ivan Palka; Mrs. Jennice; Andrew Sementiuk (??) - mill workers; dangerous jobs; 1926-27 - second wave of Ukrainian immigrants; the Rudyks; the Shtokols; he is Orthodox; Fr. Nebesnyi (??); Dyviziinyky from Italy; Ukrainians-French people relations; Savchuk’s visit; Bohdan Dubas (??); women helping Ukrainians overseas; Montese (??) POW camp; Makitra (??); moving to Toronto in 1948; DPs; UNO Hall; his wife is Canadian-born; Legion Hall.
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Part 1: Born on August 10, 1897; Greek-Catholic; came to Canada in 1930 (to Winnipeg); was arrested for 3 months by the Poles for belonging to the UVO; he was one of those who created UVO in his own povit; in Canada he joined the Strilets’ka hromada in 1938 (Kosar, Vasylyshyn - the Head of Strilets’ka hromada in Winnipeg); Het’mantsi (Nazaruk, Petrushevych, Bobers’kyi); Bishop Khomyshyn; Samostiinyky; Pohorets’kyi and Shliakh; he was a Secretary of the CUC; Prof. Simpson; CUC creation; BUC (Bratstvo ukrains’kykh katolykiv); confiscation of the Communists Hall; DPs and their influence; mel’nykivtsi vs banderivtsi; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy in 1949; he left the Sichovi stril’tsi organization; Kosar; WWII - Home Defence in Winnipeg.
Part 2: Born in selo Rakivchyk (??), povit Kolomyia; came to Canada in May 1930; in 1914 went to the Ukrains’ki sichovi stril’tsi who later became Ukrains’ka halyts’ka armiia; Beresteis’kyi myr; Tsentral’na Rada; Denikin; 1920 - the front against the Poles; Mykytiuk crossed the border in 1920 and stayed home till 1930; he was khorunzhyi; he built Narodnyi Dim in the village; Sichovi stril’tsi against the tsarist Russian troops in the Carpathians in 1914-1917; Het’man Skoropads’kyi and Germans; polk sichovykh stril’tsiv Konoval’tsia; Poles sending the Petliura soldiers (i.e. Sichovi stril’tsi) to the concentration camps; arrived to Canada (Quebec city) from Germany had to stay on a farm near Saskatoon but ran away to Viniard (??) station; then in 1932 moved to Winnipeg and worked on a Ukrainian milk factory (??); immediately joined the Strilets’ka hromada (over 100 members); sending money to Ukraine; publishing UVO’s newspaper Shliakh; UNO; Kosar as the Head; Petrushevych sent Nazaruk and Bobers’kyi to raise money for propaganda against France and England to acknowledge Halychyna; Ukrainian Communists in Canada; WWII, Hitler and Stalin’s pact; CUC; Vasylyshyn; Denych (??); Orhanizatsia ukrains’kykh buvshykh voiakiv created by those dissatisfied with the Strilets’ka hromada; Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans Association after the WWII.
Part 3: Bohdan Panchuk; 141 Branch of Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans Association in 1946; Budka - the Head; Stefan Bilins’kyi (??); helping DPs; UCC in USA; Konovalets’ - Mel’nyk - Kvytkovs’kyi (??) - Hnatiuk from Philadelphia; Kokhan (the Head of CUC); Dr. Mandryka and his wife; Kaiba (??); Fr. Kushnir; Yarynovych (??); Izhyk (Editor of Postup); Kyryliuk as the Head of CUC’s branch in Winnipeg; future of Ukrainians in Canada; new organizations of DPs; Fr. Kushnir.
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Part 1: Born on November 28, 1911 in Montreal; his parents came to Canada in 1910 from Halychyna; they lived in Sidney for 10 years in coal mines, but then moved to Montreal; Ukrainian Catholic Church; Fr. John; Het’mantsi Club; St. Jean parade (??); Prosvita; Communists in Sidney; Fr. Krasyts’kyi (??); UNO appeared in Montreal; Fr. Joan (??); Nick went to Army in 1943, was overseas; Marunchak; Nick worked in a slaughterhouse; his wife is Nikeferuk (??), Veronica; DPs; Church celebrations; Nick belongs to the Canadian Ukrainian Legion; Golden Age Club (its Head is Havryliuk (?)); Fr. Haimenovych (??).
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Born on November 28, 1910 in Drohobych; Greek-Catholic; his father came to Canada (Winnipeg) in 1926; his father’s brothers were in Canada before that; Myron had 5 brothers; his mother stayed in the Old Country and father remarried in Canada; Myron came to Canada in 1927; Myron worked in a shop; he belonged to the Robitnychyi Dim because his family belonged to it; Labay; discrimination against Ukrainians; he married in 1939 (wife’s nee Oryskevych); DPs; Myron belonged for 2 years to Workers Benevolent Association; he has 6 children; DPs; his cousin belonged to UPA.
Loud voices in the background (Senior Citizen Club setting).
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Part 1: His pseudonym was Roman Rakhmannyi (Rakhman in Arabic = powerful), he supported Ukrainian Nationalist movement against German Nazism; born in December 1918; his father-in-law was a sotnyk of Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armia; his father was at the Italian and Serbian Fronts; Roman finished High School, gymnasium, graduated from the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Academy; has a PhD from Montreal University (?); Ridna shkola in Rohatyn; mytropolyt Sheptyts’kyi turned the gymnasium in a Theological Seminary; his patriotism at the gymnasium; priests in Ukraine; relations between Ukrainians and Jews, Jews in Halyts’ka armiia.
Part 2: Jews and Ukrainians; WWII events; OUN, Stets’ko; Stepan Bandera; OUN fraction; Sushko; Baranovs’kyi; Konovalets’; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Knysh; Mel’nyk, mel’nykivtsi; banderivtsi.
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Part 1: Born on July 21, 1923 in Montreal; his wife is Olga Stanko; he is Ukrainian Catholic; his parents came to Canada in 1907; he is the Mayor since November 6, 1978; he was a Police officer for 28 years; Ukrainian school, teacher Kovaliv (??); Het’mantsi; Skoropads’kyi’s visit; WWI, refugees; Associated United Ukrainians of Canada, Federation of Russian Canadians; Prosvita; Communists and their Temple Association; drama groups - plays from Ukraine; Avramenko’s film “Natalka-poltavka”; Karpats’ka Ukraina; 1952 - anti-Communist squad, John Buchun - Police Lieutenant (??) fighting the Communists, his son being infiltrated into the Communist circles; USSR raising money in Canada for their spies activities; a Moscow scheme with the Taras Shevchenko monument in Toronto; Svystun in Montreal; during WWII he served in Canada, Ukrainian Canadians in the Air Forces; Priests: Fr. Tymochko (??); Fr. Paul Hemko (??); Fr. Jean (??); Fr. Pasichnyk; Fr. Kushnir; Het’mantsi dissolving in Montreal before WWII; he belonged to the Ukrainian Businessmen and Professional Association.
Part 2: Olynyk’s parish leaders: Zvyzdovych (??) (Olynyk’s godfather); George Chaika (??); Konstantine Stanovich (??); Prosvita Hall was sold; DPs and stories about ungrateful DPs; being elected as a Mayor in 1978, re-elected in 1982; Wagner; Mulrooney (??); his activities as a Mayor, English language in the French Province, efficient savings for the city budget; his father came to Canada from Kryvtsia, Borshchiv povit, and his mother was born in Hermetivka (??); his wife was born in Montreal.
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On the tape, the Interviewer: L.Y. Luciuk introduces him as Bohdan Panchuk.
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Part 1: Born in Saskatchewan in 1915; formation of CUC and its 2 Committees; Het’mantsi; UNO; Bosyi (??); URO (Ukrains’ka Robitnycha orhanizatsia); BUC; SUS; trip of Konovalets’ to Canada; Stechyshyn, Svystun; Lazarovych; Strilets’ka hromada; the Stechyshyn brothers - narodovtsi; Mohyla Institute; Farmars’ke zhyttia; Robitnychi visti; Peter Lazarovych; Ukrains’kyi holos; St. John’s Institute; Savchuk; Svystun; Bishop Teodorovych; Fr. Maievs’kyi ordained by Lypkivs’kyi; church disputes; Pavliuchenko; Kosar; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Mel’nyk (??); Prof. Phillips; Makohin (??); Davydovych from UNO; Kysylevs’kyi.
Part 2: Kosar; Gerych (??); Tracy Phillips; Kushnir; BUC vs SUS; Liha katolyts’kykh zhinok; Korostovyc (??) - Minister of External Affairs for Skoropadskyi; Savchuk; British Imperial investments in Ukraine; Datskiv; UHVR; CUC; DPs; Arsenych, Stechyshyn; Corconal (??) and his book; Korostovic (??); Bosyi; SUS; UNO; Svystun; Constable Petrovsky (??); Zwarych; Iatskovych (??); Panchuk went overseas in WWII; military operations.
Part 3: Datskiv; Ludwig Voitsekhovsky (??); CUC; BUC; Kohut; UPSA (??); Kozicky; Refugee Fund; pastor Kuziv (??); Bishop Buchko (??); Panchuk was in the Intelligence; Korostovic (??); Fr. Savchuk, Fr. Horoshko; Red Cross and Ukrainian-Canadian Relief Fund; Seretiuk (??), an Agricultural expert; Savchuk against Panchuk; Iaremovych (??), the 1st secretary of CUC; Fr. Urbanovych (??) from Winnipeg; CCG(??) people.
Part 4: UCVA (??); Service Club; Emily Panchuk (??); Ms. Kozicky (??); Captain Karasevych (??); Sergeant Voykovskyi (??); Ukrainian-Canadian Service Association; Ex-Servicemen’s Association; Pelekh (??); Strilets’ka hromada; John Yuzyk; helping refugees; Zahariychuk (??) was a het’manets’; Ukrainian student Kliuchevskyi (??); Froliak; Symchych (??); Fr. Kushnir visiting DP camps; CUC; Ukrains’kyi dopomohovyi komitet; Hlynka; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi; Nahnybida (??); Grenko (??); Oparenko; Sal’s’kyi; Shymovs’kyi; Davydovych; John Iarenko (??).
Part 5: Panchuk returning from England to Canada; UCVA (??); Panchuk presenting the Memorandum; Hlynka; Karasevych; Oparenko; Sal’s’kyi; CCG; going to Europe for the second time with a relief mission as its Director; Dontsov; Dmytro Derek (??); Kosar; Kushnir; Halan (??); Korostovic; Kosar was making decisions for Kushnir; CUC, Balan; Datskiv; Filby (??); Daisy (??), a Canadian Ambassador; Kysylevskyi; Boiars’kyi (??).
Part 6: CUC; UNO; BUC; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Koval’s’ka (??); Panchuk; Balan; Yaremovych; Khraplyvyi (??); Ukrainian Bureau (??); Panchuk studying at the University in London; Shtopa (??) from Karpats’ka Ukraina.
Part 7: Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox church; refugees; Panchuk; Polikarp (??); Church in London.
Parts 6-7: Poor sound quality.
Parts 3-4: Pankiw’s wife participates in the interview.
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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.
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Part 1: Nee - Olha Gerenychuk (??); born on December 27, 1910 in Kodnia, Zhytomyr region; Orthodox; finished a 7 year Ukrainian school in Kodnia; came to Canada with parents and 3 other siblings in 1928; Ukrainian churches in Zhytomyr in the 1920s; Kodnia-Kyiv-Moscow-Riga-England-Halifax; settled in Winnipeg; started working as a seamstress; hardships of buying a farm; after 5 years on a farm moved to Toronto, to a factory; she went to Institute Prosvita (participating at the amature theatre), Narodnyi Dim, UNO; assimilation efforts; conflicts with Ukrainian Communists before WWII; married in 1937 with Stepan Pavliuk; moving to London during WWII; British Museum Library; Dr. K; Lotman (??) and his journal against the USSR; Lord Gescal (??) and his “History of Ukraine”; Davydovych; Gescal’s tragic death; she returned to Canada in 1945; manuscript of Gescal.
Part 2: Gescal (??); interest of non-Ukrainians in the Ukrainian cause; WWII events and admiration with the USSR; she worked as a typist; Panchuk in London - Ukrainian Veterans’ Club; Hania Khryplyva (??); Kozicky (??) the Secretary; Hania Panchuk; Fr. Savchuk; Fr. Horoshko; Fr. Symchych; CUC; Davydovych; Dr. K shut down the Bureau and left for Canada; UCSA; Catholics vs Orthodox; life in London; she came back to Canada in April 1945; army life of her husband.
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Part 1: Travel to Halifax at the end of WWII after 7 years of absence; she settled in Toronto; joined UNO with her husband Stepan; creating Ukrainian Veterans Association; Panchuk; Stepan helping the veterans; Pohorets’kyi (?); in 5 years, her husband with a partner bought a hotel; conflicts inside the Ukrainian community; Ukrainians coming from the WWII tried to catch up with their Canadian fellows in terms of material goods.
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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.
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Part 1: Born on February 8, 1897 in the Mishanytsia (??) village, Yavoriv district, Lviv region; used to be Greek-Catholic, but now is Orthodox; 10 children in his family; finished the village school using Ukrainian and Polish; Maksymovych the village teacher; “Svoboda” the newspaper coming to the village from Lviv; Polish and Austrian rule in the village; Ukrainians and Jews relations; WWI - Russian army occupied his village; then in 1915 was in the Austrian army (in infantry), in 1918 he went to Austria; for 2 years he was a POW (in a camp near Kamianets-Podilskyi); being in a hospital in Krakow; his brother was in the Petliura army; he came to Canada in 1928; his cousin sent him a ticket from Canada; Poland-England (London - Liverpool) - Halifax, ship “Scythia”; worked for CNR during 6 months; moved to Saskatoon and became a member of the Strilets’ka hromada in 1930; Kosar; about 70 members of the Strilets’ka hromada; UNO and Strilets’ka hromada.
Part 2: Samostiinyky, UNO; Svystun, Stechyshyn; General Kurmanovych (??); Kosar; Konovalets’ and Mel’nyk in Canada before WWII; Het’mantsi; Communists in Canada; Budniuk (??); Ptryshyn got Canadian citizenship (?) in 1942 - his witnesses were Hnatyshyn & Tkachuk; WWII, UNO; CUC; BUC; Stratiichuk (??) - the Head of the Orthodox community; changing his religion to Orthodox; he left UNO; Pavliuchenko; Vasylyshyn; Petryshyn was the Head of the Strilets’ka hromada for 1 year; Strilets’ka hromada’s Hall; UNO vs Strilets’ka hromada; UNO’s connection with Europe; Novyi shliakh; UPA members joining UNO after WWII; Novyi shliakh moving to Winnipeg; DPs, Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Banderivtsi vs Mel’nykivtsi, Conference in Krakow.
Part: 3 On April 17, 1928 he arrived to Halifax; DPs; Kapish (??); his personal life - in 1930 was incorrectly implicated in murder, till 1962 was under suspicion, in 1963 was found not guilty and the case was dismissed.
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Part 1: Teaching at a Ukrainian Public School in Sandy Lake rural area, Teacher Ranko (Rankovs’kyi) in 1934-35; ; belonged to CUC, Narodnyi Dim; Stratiichuk (??); SUMC; 2nd wave of immigration; UNO, Pavliuchenko; Samostiinyky; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Piniuta was teaching during WWII; Fr. Hrihoriichuk.
Part 2: CUC activities; WWII - Ukrainian Servicemen Association; Panchuk and DPs; Mr. Yaniv (??); commissions in DP camps; after retirement he wrote a book about Ukrainians in Canada.
Part 3: Born on March 1, 1910 in Elphinstone, Manitoba; his father Dmytro came to Canada when he was 16, with his parents and 2 sisters, they landed in Quebec on July 25, 1900; his mother’s name Anna; they were from the village of Lypkivtsi, Husiatyn district (??); Greek-Catholics; school was organized in 1906, primarily a Ukrainian district; school went down in 1922 and they changed its name to Prince Royal School; bilingual school since 1916; his father subscribed to Ukrains’kyi holod and Kanadiis’ki Rusyny; Rus’ka Knyharnia; parokhia Sviatoho Ivana, Fr. Oleksiy, Fr. Riadkevych (??); teacher Ilya Mykytiuk; relations with the Poles; Orthodox Church in his area; Fr. Andrukhovych.
Part 4: His neighbor Mykola Tkachuk (??); Church Hall; Prosvita, plays, occasional speeches; Krushevych (??); Andrusiak (??); completed his High School education in 1929 due to sickness; in 1933-34 worked in a local store owned by a Ukrainian; Ivanchuk (??); Mrs. Zilych (??) - her husband was involved in Ukrainian movement in Brandon; Dnipro Club (about 20 students belonged to it); teachers Hladiuk, Mykytiuk; Tokar; Tymchak (??); Holyk (??); discrimination against Ukrainians.
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Part 1: Born in 1909, in Ukraine; Creek-Catholic; there was Prosvita in their village; he finished 7 grades Ukrainian school in his village; Ukrainians fighting Poles; his brothers left for Canada before WWI; Poles came in 1922-23; Peter came to Canada in 1927, to his brother in Winnipeg, then moved to Regina, worked for CPR for 14 years; then worked in a hotel in BC in 1942; in Regina, there was UNO, Catholic Ukrainian church; Peter belonged to UNO; Communists in Regina; Ukrains’ka natsionalistychna partiia formed after WWII; Ukrainian parish in Victoria after WWII created by Bondar’, Kozachenko, Kohut, Pizag, Panchuk; Communists in Victoria; DPs; he did not work for 4 years during the Depression, life and work during Depression; Pacification in Ukraine.
Part 2: Jews and Ukrainians in his village; his route of emigration: Lviv-Warsaw-Gdansk-Copenhagen-England-Halifax; Bila partiia
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Part 1: Real name is Fedir Petrovych Podopryhora; born on March 3, 1912 in a village of Burtky, Kyiv region (huberniia); then parents moved to the Kherson region; he is Orthodox; his wife’s name is Kylyna Samiilivna Hudzenko, she was born is a nearby village, Remintarivka (Kyiv region); he had 13 siblings; his 2 brothers were killed in the WWI; his uncles was a General Secretary in the Tsentral’na Rada, he was killed in 1919; villagers then believed the Bolsheviks’ promises; NEP in the 1920s; his father was elected a zastupnyk starosty volosti; his brother had to be conscripted to the Bolshevik Army but was killed the chekists, Sen’ka Pogorelyi killed his father in 1923; NEP and lands; his mother died of grief in 1928; everything was in Ukrainian - Ukrainization Period; Ukrainian Church; his mother’s role in Theodor’s religious and overall development; till 1928 only local villagers were in power, not Communists; CheKa; Russians as “nahabni zhebraky”; relations between Ukrainians and Jews; 1927 - the beginning of changes, cooperation.
Part 2: Cooperation; no Communists in Theodor’s village till 1928; in 1925, were organized MTT (mashynno-traktorne tovarystvo); Tovarystvo “Suspil’na zemel’na obrobka”; villages being forced to joining the kolhosp; Soviet propaganda; Theodor was a batrak in 1928, joined the kolhosp in 1929, married in 1930; radhosp im. Kosiora was organized in his region; Holodomor circumstances in Kyiv region, Kirovohrad, Donbas; cannibalism cases.
Part 3: Holodomor, cannibalism; his life in the Donbas; Spring of 1932 - the beginning of the famine; mass media on the famine; Russification after the Holodomor; Skrypnyk’s suicide; being on a road during the famine; ethnically mixed Ukraine; Ukrainian Army, contacts with banderivtsi; Theodor left his village for Germany; life under German occupation; partizans, Kalashnyk.
Part 4: Return of the Red Army; Theodor fled away (through German colonies in Bessarabia and Romania); propaganda about UPA; Halychyna Division; Theodor was in Munich when the WWII ended; DP camps in Austria; Ukrainian camps in Salzburg; escaping the Soviet zone of occupation and return to the USSR; Fr Fotiy (??); bandarivtsi, Ivaniuk as a holova taborovoi rady; Fr. Savchuk; banderivtsi fighting mel’nykivtsi in the camp; Pundyk (now in Winnipeg); sotnyk Herasymenko, Pestushko; Volyniak; publishing “Promin’” in the first camp; Theodor left the camp for Venezuela in 1947 and lived there till 1955, organizing a Ukrainian colony there, 15 families; Mykola Livyts’kyi; leaving for Canada in July 1955, settled in London, ON; he belongs to CUC; older immigrants, Tomyn (??); Chaikivs’kyi (??); SUZHERO (??); halychany’s attitudes toward him; SUS; Fr. Fedir Kysyliuk - Orthodox priest; an Orthodox church built under Fr. Debryn (??) in 1963 while land was bought under Fr. Hutsuliak; Odyn (??); Ivan Franko Club - Theodor was its member; Tatsiuk (??).
Part 5: Court case RE: the Club money; old and new immigrants’ membership; CUC - Theodor is a Holova kontrol’noi komisii; CUC Statuty; Orthodox community in London; Ukrainian community in Canada, Ukrainian nationalism; mel’nykivtsi.
Part 1-3 windy sound, recorded outside.
Part 3 Sound at the very end is distorted (the speed of tape slows down)
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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.
Part 2 is incomprehensible, not able to hear anything because of the bad sound quality.
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Part 1: Born in 1904, in Volyn’; came to Canada in 1930; his family was Orthodox; his elder brother stayed in the USA for a long time, and came back in 1920, was conscripted into the Russian Army; William served in the Polish Army in 1925-26; went to Canada; hard times during the Depression; Winnipas; threats of deportation; working on farms near Winnipas; moving to Victoria; work at a factory; working in the Capital Iron Company (??); Walter did not go to school in his village; learned Polish alphabet in the army; learned English in Canada.
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Part 1: Real name - Vasyl’ Pukish, born on December 11, 1903 in Kalush; Greek-Catholic; he had 4 brothers and a sister; his father and brother went to the WWI; war with Poland; he joined a church choir for 2 years; was conscripted to the Polish Army (infantry); he came to Canada in 1927 (Gdynia - Quebec); staying in Winnipeg, Regina; working at a CPR Hotel; Communist Hall in Regina; Dr. Pavliuchenko; General Kapustians’kyi (??); Strilets’ka hromada: Mykhailo Babiy (??); Topol’nyts’kyi (??); Hrytsei (??); his wife - Ol’ha Druzhkova, was born in USA; they married in 1929; Strilets’ka hromada was formed in 1929; conference in Saskatoon in 1934 (1935?)- Kurmanovych, Pavliuchenko, Yanovs’kyi (??); Het’mantsi in Regina; Zaharuk from UNO; UNO Hall; discrimination against Ukrainians.
Part 2: Choir; Ukrainian weddings in Canada; Senyk Hrybivs’kyi (??); Colonel Sushko (??); General Kurmanovych (??); UNO creation; UNO Heads - Hryhorovych, Kosar; Voinarovych (??); Holodomor; WWII, sentiments about Germans; William moved from Regina to Toronto in 1941; working at a hotel; owning a store; joining Strilets’ka hromada in Toronto; Fr. Konovets’kyi (??); Fr. Lepskyi (??); Fr. Kahurs’kyi (??); Fr. Denesh (??); Kosar stopped being the Head of UNO in 1954 (?).
Part 3: Komitet uzdorovlennia UNO; Pohorets’kyi (Editor); moving CUC to Toronto; building a new church; Fr. Denesh (??); Fr. Kamenets’kyi (??).
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Part 1: Born on December 19, 1898 in a village of Trebukhivtsi (now “Druzhba”), Ternopil region; Buchach povit; he came to Canada in May 1928, to Quebec, then to Saskatoon; WWI - he was a soldier in Russian Army; he was at the Romanian and Italian fronts; deserted the army and was hiding; was in the Ukrainian Army, was a POW till 1921; Petliura; Petrushevych; hiding weapon in the dirt; his father died in the Italian front; he came back after WWI and married in 1924; he found his father’s brother in Canada; at first, was working at bush clearing; several Ukrainians were deported back, since they had no jobs; Dukhobory; Ukrainian Orthodox church in Hufford; Prosvita; Strilets’ka hromada in Hafford; Mykola Hryhorovych; Ukrainian community in Ruan (??); frequent demonstrations against unemployment; Ukrainian church in Ruan (??); Nick married again in Ruan, his wife was Varvara Donets’; he moved to Kirkland in 1938; his brother went to Ukraine in 1932 and returned to Kirkland in 1934; Natsional’ne ob’iednannia in Kirkland Lake.
Part 2: Robitnychyi Dim; Strilets’ka hromada; visit of Hul’tai (??); theatrical activities and dances at the Robitnychyi Dim; priests dividing Ukrainians: Fr. Kushchak (??), Fr. Chorniy (??); theatrical plays at the Robitnychyi Dim; Ridna shkola - teacher Semenov, Karpish - the first teacher; orchestra; Tkachuk (??); Plashka (Kuzyk) (??); Olga Roman (??); Robitnychyi dim was closed in 1939 and returned in 1942; helping Ukraine during WWII; Markovs’kyi - the 1st Head of Robitnychyi dim in the1930s; nationalists sitting very quietly; DPs; closing mines; coal mine Union had 5000 members; Union’s strike in 1940; influence of DPs; Robitnychyi dim was sold in 1976; Nick stopped working in mines in 1968.
Part 3: (Interviewee: John) was born on December 2, 1902; his wife’s nee was Anna Donets’; he came to Canada in March 1922; he had a farm in Vegreville; his wife joined him in Canada in 1935 (after his visit to Ukraine in 1932-34), they married in 1935
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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.
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Part 1: Became a member of Ridna Shkola and Prosvita; UNO; meeting with Kokhan in 1948 in Thunder Bay; Koordynatsiinyi Ukrains’kyi Komitet, Natsional’na Rada; CUC; Klish (??); Roshko (??); Petro Basiuk (??); Fr. Izhyk (??); Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy - Sosnovs’kyi (??), Rakhmannyi (??); Homin Ukrainy; Malashchuk (??) came from Europe; Froliak (??) came from England, he was born in Canada but his family sent him to a gymnasium in Stanislaviv, then joined the Canadian Army; Marunchak; Bezkhlibnyk (??); Banderivtsi vs Mel’nykivtsi in Winnipeg; Fond dopomohy and Mrs. Mandryka; Zahariichuk, Dats’kiv; Hlynka created Fond dopomohy; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO; future of Ukrainians in Canada; cursing Petliura, a prayer.
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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.
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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.
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The transcript was provided by Karen Newton. Katherine Rutich was her grandfather's nephew's wife.
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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.
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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.
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Part 1: Born on June 20, 1923 in Monastyrys’ke (??), Buchats’kyi povit; near Zarvanytsia, Podillia, Greek-Catholic; Ukrainian-Polish relations; cooperative movement; Prosvita; went to a gymnasium in Stanislaviv; Patriarch Slipyi, Dukhovna akademiia; bursa Sviatoho Yosafata; Vasyl’ Bybyk (?); Froliak; Karpats’ka Ukraina; his aunt was a Sister-Basilian (?) in USA; WWII; Bolsheviks occupation; pidpillia, Semen Zhyla (??); NKVD; attitude towards German Army.
Part 2: Ukrains’ka dyviziia; Sagacz right after the gymnasium got into the local administration; OUN; dopomohovyi komitet; suspil’nyi opekun; orhanizatsiia Vidrodzhennia; Dr. Pavlyshyn, protyalkohol’nyi hurtok; pidpillia; Erfasung (???) dyviziia; Ukrains’ka natsional’na armiia in 1945, Shandriuk (??) the Commander; Myroslav Proskurnyts’kyi (?); Prokopyshyn; Antin Derbish (?); getting into the English occupation zone; banderivtsi vs mel’nykivtsi; Fr. Bulanych (?), Fr. Lavryk (?); Fr. Prashko (?); Fr. Kushnir; Sagacz ran away from a camp in 1946; Ivan Rusak, Ivan Raskin (?); Dr. Polishchuk; Orest Horodnyts’kyi (?), Kaplun in the camp; polkovnyk Dolyns’kyi (?); Mykhailo Rosliak (?)
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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 (??)
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Part 1: Nee - Slyva; born on August 25, 1934 in Sudbury, ON; her father was a gold miner, family lived in Beardmore (??), Geraldton (??), Windsor; graduated from the University of Windsor; her husband’s name is Orest; her mother came to Canada from around Ternopil’ in 1921, her father came in 1930 from Boikivshchyna; her father was a professional dancer and had a University degree; her parents married in 1933; father was a member of the Labor Temple; Natasha married in 1962, had a son in 1968; WWII - she knitted scarves for the Army; discrimination against Ukrainians; choir, orchestra, plays in Windsor - choir conductor Korchmarovskyi (??), Nick Stefaniuk; plays: Natalka-Poltavka, Zaporozhets za Dunaiem, etc; mandolin orchestra in Labor Temple; DPs; Shevchenko, Franko concerts; she graduated from the Ontario College of Education; she got fired because she had a divorce in 1961; Ukrainian dance; all her family belongs to UNO.
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Part 1: Born on February 23, 1928 in Winnipeg; his father came to Canada around the turn of the century, his father was a 15-year old teenager working in mines; his father’s brother died in a mine accident and is buried in the Copper Cliff (??); his mother arrived in 1913 from a village of Iaseniv, Ternopil region; his mother ran a boarding house for miners in Sudbury; Oryst went to school in Sudbury; Oryst’s father was a founding member of the WBA (Workers Benevolent Association) in Winnipeg; his mother was a member of the ULFTA since 1928; Ukrainian drama group in Winnipeg (Donkiv (??), Mary Kuzyk (??)); Shevchenko, Franko plays; Kobylians’ka; Karpish - teacher; Ukrainian school; discrimination against Ukrainians; John Boichuk; Youth section; Communist Hall was confiscated in favour of a Baptist church during WWII.
Part 2: WWII, Oryst went to the University of Manitoba - community planning; DPs; coming to Sudbury after the University; John Stefiura (??) - another Ukrainian architect in Sudbury; cultural exchange with Ukraine.
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Part 1: Born on February 14, 1895 in the village of Vil’kivtsi (??) of Borshchiv povit, Halychyna; his mother Varvara Hrubiy (??), his father was a tkach, was in Austrian army; Semen had 3 brothers and 1 half-sister; his father organized Tovarystvo tverezosti in his village and Tovarystvo dopomohy (?); mother decided to go to Canada because the family did not have enough land for 4 sons; the family left for Canada in 1899; came to Ukraine to visit in 1922 - “Mesionar” published warnings about him; came in 1899 to Winnipeg, then to a small colony “Franklin”, they bought a farm; Hans Valley had a school which Sawchuk went to, the teacher was Polish; first Ukrainian priest in their area was Fr. Dmytriv; Metropolitan Maxim (?); family moved to Saskatchewan in 1908 (a farm 40 miles from Yorkton); French priests served for Ukrainians trying to get rid of the Greek-Catholic Church; Sawchuk learned how to read Ukrainian himself; penname “Semen Matej”(??); Ukrains’kyi holos was started by the Ukrainian teachers (Fr. Vasyl’ Kudryk, Firney (??)); Bishop Budka and Kanadiis’kyi rusyn (later it became Kanadiis’kyi ukrainets’); 1908 - Sheptyckyi’s visit to Canada; “Taini pravyla” of the Catholic priests.
Part 2: Ukrains’kyi holos vs. Ukrains’kyi rusyn; 1916 - 1st Ukrainian Narodnyi Congress in Saskatoon; Bishop Budka; was studying at that time at the bursa (Mohyla Institute); Tovarystvo “Bursuk”; Sawchuk joined the Tovarystvo “Kameniari”; Sawchuk was the 1st Secretary of the Narodnyi Dim in Saskatoon; Julian Stechyshyn; Svystun, money scandal; Dr. Kushnir from BUC and his relations to Svystun; Fr. Mayevs’kyi (??); Archbishop Teodorovych; Metropolitan Lypkivs’kyi.
Part 3: Rada Ukrains’kykh Tserkov; CUC; Kosar on Ukrainian-Canadian Legions; Dr. Datskiv on CUC as Ukrainian government in exile; Tracy Phillips, Simpson and creation of CUC; Svystun; Fr. Kushnir about Svystun as a Catholic; Kosar as a person; SUS; Sawchuk in Ottawa in 1939; Sawchuk got a Lieutenant rank in 1921, during WWII became a Chaplain in 1942, Fr. Symchych as a Chaplain, Fr. Kovalyshyn; Fr. Horoshko; Helen Kozycky; Danylo Skoropads’kyi; coming back to Canada in 6 months; Ivan Teodorovych asked to get another Bishop, so Sawchuk went to Germany after WWII; bringing illegal money to Doroshenko from Samostiinyky; Metropolitan Polikarp; camp of Lysenka (fights between easterners and westerners); Panchuk; Froliak; Dopomohovyi fond in Canada, Kokhan.
Part 4: DPs’ influence on the Ukrainian life in Canada; Fr. Yizhyk, BUC; Pan American Ukrainian Conference in New York in 1946; Syrnyk; CUC supporting Ukrainska Natsionalna Rada and not UHV; Dr. Galan from USA; Vasylyshyn; change of the status of Ukrainians in Canada; future of Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada.
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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.
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Part 1: Nee - Levkovych; born on April 8, 1906 in a village of Potoches’ka (??), Horodenka povit; she had 2 brothers and 2 sisters; her father had a good church education; family was wealthy; her mother had brothers in Canada, they invited Olga, and she left in August 1928 (arrived to Halifax, then went to Saskatchewan, then to a mine near Sudbury), married Mykhailo Semeniuk in 1930; the family moved to Sudbury; Kostets’kyi invited them to Kirkland Lake in May 1931; Communist Hall; Leshchuk (??); Strilets’ka hromada; Fr. Kushchak (??); Fr. Savchuk; Samostiinyky; Stasiv (now a lawyer) was a teacher in High School.
Part 2: Fr. Kushchak building a Ukrainian church in 1932-1933; a conflict of the church belonging (??); UNO Hall; Strilets’ka hromada - Nesterovs’kyi (??), Holobets’; a chapel near the Hall; Fr. Smyk (??); Fr. Kaminets’kyi (??); Fr. Chorniy (??); orchestra organized by Stokolosa (??), Shul’ha (??); Samostiinyky; Fr. Borys (??); Fr. Lazar was the first teacher in the Hall; Ridna shkola; Vasyl Hul’tai (??); Ivan Ilchyshyn was a teacher; Fr. Lazar’s wife founded the Prosvita but did not have own Hall; Fr. Smyk came after WWII; Olga was at the drama club - plays by Ukrainians authors; voting for the Polish Sejm; elections at UNO; OUK - women’s organization; Ukrainian businessmen in Kirkland - Sorochan (??), Fedirchuk (??).
Part 3: March with flags; Fr. Borys; Fr. Oliynyk (??); news about Holodomor 1933; MUN, Masna (??); dance club - Shelestyns’kyi (??) was an instructor; Konovalets’ assassination; sending parcels to Ukraine; DPs taking over the Hall; Fr. Zvarych (??); Fr. Chaika (??); Fr. Smyk; DPs opening an Orthodox church, Fr. Horoshko; Fedirchuk; Ukrainians living Kirkland Lake at the end of 1940s; Pinkovs’kyi (??) organized MUN; UNO branch in Kirkland Lake, UNO Congress in 1949; Kosar; CUC creation; WWII - Communist Hall was confiscated in Kirkland Lake; Khmara (??); Olga is Greek-Catholic.
Part 4: Bazylevych (??); active Ukrainians in Kirkland Lake - Kul’chyts’kyi, Shul’ha, Nesterovs’kyi, Maksymovych; Kuryliv (??) from Sudbury; Ukrainian school; Hrytsyshyn (??).
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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.
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Part 1: Born in Winnipeg in 1930; grew up in a Precher (??) area, spoke only Ukrainian at home; as a young boy became a member of the Junior Section of the Ukrainian Labor Temple; went to a Ukrainian school; the family subscribed Ukrainian newspapers; his father Matviy Shatulsky first went to England, then to the USA and then came to Canada in 1911, he was from the Tsarist Russia, was Orthodox; his mother came to Canada in 1922; his father died when Myron was quite young; his father was arrested in 1940 and kept in Escas (??); Semchyshyn was his school friend; confiscation of the Communist Hall; a division between Bolsheviks and Nationalists; CUC.
Part 2: The wife introduces herself. In 1946 his father went to visit Ukraine, in 1947 he went across western Canada reporting on what he saw. He himself was always politically conscious. He was watching his father who affected him greatly. His talk about boys he went to school with. Banderivtsi. DPs. SS Galicia. They taught Ukrainian school that included dancing, Ukrainian language. Cultural level of Ukrainian life in Canada. They taught young people full time dancing, choir, orchestra. It was a big interest in Ukrainian dance in 1953.
Part 3: Life and study in Soviet Ukraine: Oleksander Klymiuk (??); Viriovka; Ryl’s’koho Institute; Fakul’tet narodnykh instrumentiv; Patorzhyns;kyi; studying with Krachko and Zakarpats’kyi khor; Shatulsky came back from Soviet Ukraine in 1953; Svystun and “Svystunivs’ka tserkva”; John Kolasky; applying his received knowledge in Canada; the Famine issue.
Part 4: The Famine issue; defending the Soviet system; Ukrainian-Canadian culture; cultural exchanges.
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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.
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Part 1: Born on September 29, 1901 in a town of Hlyzan’ (??) near Lviv; his wife is Olga Shulha (nee - Kashuba); attended a gymnasium in Lviv, interrupted by WWI; in 1914, Russian Army came, in 1915, Austrian Army returned; Paul was the eldest child; shkola kylymars’kykh vyrobiv in his town; in 1918, his father returned from the Italian front; Paul was studying in a Teachers Seminary; he was drafted into the Polish Army, telegraph school; military life; Halyts’ka armiia; fighting in Odessa; makhnivtsi; Tiutiunnyk; his army heading to Kyiv; being in a hospital with typhos; back to his regiment; Bessarabia; Red Army, internment in Proskuriv; returning home; came to Canada in March of 1927 (Gdansk - South Hampshire - St. Johns, NB).
Part 2: Paul came to Winnipeg; teaching at a Ridna shkola at Ivan Franko settlement; Transcona and its inhabitants; Het’mantsi; antagonism between Ukrainians in Canada; teaching to play musical instruments; moving to Regina in the 1930s; Ukrains’kyi narodnyi dim in Regina; Vasyl’ Veselovs’kyi (??); Paul teaching at the Narodnyi dim im. Shashkevycha; Strilets’ka hromada; womens section of the Strilets’ka hromada; publishing Robintsychi visti; brass orchestra; Shatul’s’kyi (??); Myrnam.
Part 3: Used to make musical instruments. Learned in the Old Country from his uncle. He was part of the music band there, and played violin. (They also played “Svatannia na Honcharivtsi”). He wanted his uncle to tune the violin, and he agreed if Paul would help him build instruments. He left Myrnam in 1931, went to Saskatoon; Babiy (??); Vasyl Hoitai (??); Fr. Savchuk; a trip on farm to distribute Novyi shliakh; Paul was a member of the Strilets’ka hromada; organizing UNO in Saskatoon; Kosar; Hryhorovych - the 1st Head of UNO; Bishop Makariy (??); Hryhorovych; Slipchenko (??); Communists in Saskatchewan were the strongest; Bozhok; Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Pohorets’kyi as the Editor of Novyi shliakh; Ukrainian community in Kenora.
Part 4: Denis Metel’s’kyi (??) organized a brass orchestra; Pashchyn (??); organizing concerts in 1931 in Sudbury; his orchestra was called “banda”; Prof. Bobers’kyi (??); Het’mantsi; concert at the UNO Congress; WWII, German sentiments at UNO; Fr. Jean (??); Sheptyts’kyi; after the end of WWII Paul returned to Kirkland Lake; Ridna shkola - Matviichuk’s textbooks.
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Part 1: Nee - Khraplyva; born on December 24, 1912 in Ladywood (Manitoba); her parents came to Canada in 1898, stayed for 2 years, and then returned to Halychyna because her father’s mother had died; they the whole family came back to Canada in 1901; family was Orthodox in the old country but she was baptized in Ukrainian Catholic church in Canada; during WWII went overseas (November 1943), Ukrainian Canadian Services Association, Panchuk; she became the first Treasurer; the building was rented (it was an Anglican Church); living in barracks; Helen Kozicky; she came to Canada in March 1946, stationed in Ottawa and came to Winnipeg to be discharged in September 1946, and then went back overseas with a group in October 1946; Ukrainian Canadian Relief Mission = Ukrainian Canadian Mission for Ukrainian Victims of War; Froliak; Urbanovych (??); Captain Davydovych (??); UCSA closed in December 31, 1945 and CURB (??) started on January 1, 1946; Gordon (??); Korostovych (??); Skoropadskyi; CUC; Horoshko; Mrs. Mandryka; Froliak playing politics (Banderivtsi); George Kliuchevskyi (??); Mrs. Kowalsky (??); being in British zone of occupation.
Part 2: Being in American zone of occupation; Kushnir; Panchuk left in December 1947; DPs, DP representative, Relief Fund; coming back to Canada in 1947, giving lectures with Panchuk; League of Nations; Gordon; DPs; German transit camp; SUP (??)
Part 3: Panchuk and Yeremovych (??); Liquidation Commission; Korostovych (??); the Vasylyshyns; Andriyevskyi (??); secret instruction from Canada regarding Ukrainians; Gordon; SUP annual meeting; CPUE; Smith was a Director of the Canadian Ukrainian relief fund, Vasylyshyn succeeded her; Dorothy Yanda (??); she came back in 1952 and Relief Fund was finished; her husband was George Colder (??); became a Supervisor of Canadian pensions.
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Part 1: Born on April 1, 1915 near Dauphin, Manitoba; his wife is Odarka Buhais’ka (??) born in Cobalt, Ontario; they have 4 children; Peter went to a Public school on farms, went to University of Manitoba, then took dentistry in Edmonton, graduated in 1940; now are Orthodox but came from Halychyna as Ukrainian Catholics; Peter went to a summer Ukrainian school in Keld (Haliovs’kyi - teacher, Barkovych, a student of Avramenko); growing in the Ukrainian area of Kosiv near Dauphin; buying a farm for $1200; Prosvita Hall; Arsenych the teacher at a school in the Kosiv school; Orthodox vs Catholics; Ukrains’kyi holos; Bishop Budka’s letter in 1914; Vasyl Svystun, Myroslav Stechyshyn, Kubryk; Orthodox church in Canada was more political than religious; French and Belgium becoming priests for Ukrainian churches; Ukrainian Communists; Danylo Skoropadskyi’s visit to Dauphin; Smilsky stayed at the Hrushevskyi Institute; Dmytro Mel’nyk, Danylo Kobyl’nyk, Faryna - his Institute friends; John Decore organized a Students Club (about 11 members), polkovnyk Sushko came once at the meeting; Samostiinyky; UNO; activities of the Student Club, pani Mykhailenko; Volodymyr Kupchenko.
Part 2: Meeting Doroshenko; spending summer on a farm; UNO; Pacification in Halychyna; newspapers on Holodomor; assassinations of Petliura and Konovalets’; pro-German sentiment before WWII; DPs; he sat a practice in Hamilton; Ivan Pylypiuk; Ukrainian Orthodox group in Hamilton, Zavadovskyi (??); Fedorkiv; Fodchuk; WWII, Anthony Hlynka, Ukrains’kyi holos; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Fr. Voloshyn; he went overseas, to Amsterdam; Dr. Kapusta, Dr. Ruthyk (??); Panchuk; Ann Khraplyva; Helen Koziy (??); Fr. Horoshko.
Part 3: Panchuk and a choir; UCSA; Fr. Horoshko; Helen Koziy (??); CUC; Tracy Phillips; Ukrainian Information Bureau; Steven Davydovych; Dr. K; discrimination against Ukrainians during WWII; 1944 - the Jump (??), Panchuk; Ukrainians at the Polish Forces; DP camps; Bishop Buchko; Mykola Lebid’; Danylo Skoropads’kyi.
Part 4: A split inside the Nationalists camp; Mykola Lebid’; Mel’nyk; Danylo Skoropadskyi’s visit to UCSA; Lady Hill; Bishop Buchko; Panchuk, Tracy Phillips taking action against shipping DPs back to the USSR; MP Michael Foot (??); UN first assembly in 1945, attended it with a press pass; Mykola Bazhan representing USSR; Hector McNeal (??); speeches about DPs; Panchuk; Steve Davydovych, Froliak; Mrs. Roosevelt’s speech; Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau’s name.
Part 5: UNO split; Prosvita; Canadian Legion Branch; Bozhok from UNO; Steven Pawluk (??); CUC in Hamilton; Povoroznyk (??); he came back to Canada in 1947 and went to school in Toronto, change in Ukrainian community in Canada; Orthodox and Catholics; DPs in Canada; Ukrainian Canadian Veteran Association; John Karasevych (??); Dr. K. suggested the name of “Olive Branch”; a branch of veterans in Hamilton, membership; Yaremovych (??)
Part 6: Karasevych; Yaremovych (??); John Yuzyk; Kosar came to Hamilton of behalf of CUC shortly after WWII; Bishop Borets’kyi (??); Ukrainian Communists in Hamilton; SUS, its branches and Congresses; changing the name of the Hrushevskyi Institute; oral surgery in Canada; Dr. Diamond; Ivan Homeniuk, Peter Homeniuk, Ryshchak (??); Klymashko (??); Panchuk; Smilsky became a Chairman of the board of directors of the Institute in Toronto in 1963; Oryshchak (??); Steve Davydovych; Kyrylyk (??) - cultural director; General Hryhorenko; Hrabovskyi (??); Hryhoriak (??)
Part 7: Students Club at the UofToronto (Burshtyns’kyi and Smilsky supported it); perogy eating contest reminding about the spaghetti eating contest; teachers of Ukrainian and Hamilton area; Stechyshyn (??); Smilsky losing money for the University Program to exist in 1963; Metropolitan Illarion’s visit.
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Part 1: Born on April 30, 1910 in Zoria, Manitoba; he is Orthodox but was born to a Catholic family; his father Roman came from Sapohiv (??), Borshchiv povit; his mother Anna Drozdovych was from Krivcha village, Borshchiv povit; Ivano-Frankivs’k oblast; his parents came to Canada in 1902 and settled in Zoria (10 miles to the North of Dauphin, MB); Solomon finished a Public School “Halych” in the area; Ukrainian was taught every day at the school after 4pm; he had 2 brothers and a sister (she died young); his father was a farmer, he belonged to Narodovtsi movement; his father converted to Orthodoxy in 1918; a church was built in 1920 on the farms; Bishop Budka’s visit to Canada; Fr. Savchuk organized their parish; Fr. Leshchyshyn (??); Berlins’kyi (??); after 8 grades of School he went to High School in Dauphin; there was a Ukrainian Student Club in Narodnyi Dim, Vasyl’ Sklepovych, choir; in 1919 Solomon went to Winnipeg to attend a University to study law; working at a lawyers firm in Dauphin; Svystun the Rector; Ukrainian Self-Reliance Ligue; Farley (??); the Stechyshyns; Bur’ianyk (??); Slidchenko (??); SUS creation; UNO; General Kapustians’kyi (??); converting into Orthodoxy; BUC creation.
Part 2: BUC creation; Svystunivs’ka tserkva; Het’mantsi; Solomon became a lawyer and opened his own company in Selkirk, Manitoba in 1935; Panchuk; Ukrainian Communists in Winnipeg; Solomon moved to Winnipeg in 1941; WWII, confiscation of the Communists properties; UNO; CUC creation, Tracy Phillips’ role; Viktoria Kolessa (??), wife of Phillips; Dr. Kysylevs’kyi (??); Kushnir; Vladyka Vasyliy (??); Kushnir had a support of Samostiinyky; BUC; Solomon was a member of the Liberal Party in Emerson Constituency for 16 years, Ukrainian section of the Emerson Constituency, Ukrainian mentality.
Part 3: Ukrainian mentality; Polish Army Division with a considerable number of Ukrainians; Soloviy (??); Arsenych; Volodymyr Kokhan (??) - Fr. Kushnir brought him to be a director of CUC; Ms. Mandryka; Ukrainian-Canadian efforts and refugees; UN Relief Organization’s meeting in Montreal; Stanley Froliak (??); creation of UCVA; Panchuk; John Karasevych (??); a meeting the Senate regarding the Committee of Immigration, Minister of Immigration, John Glen (??); allowing Diviziia Halychyna into Canada; Vasylyshyn as the Heads of the Relief Fund; Kosar and CUC; Prof. Pavliuchenko; Dmytro Andrievs’kyi.
Part 4: Impact of refugees on Ukrainian life in Canada; UNO vs Liha; a trip of Solomon and Kushnir to the United Nations in San Francisco; Prof. Ganovskyi (??), Shumeiko, Katamai (??) - representatives from American UCC; Fr. Kushnir; Palamarchuk (??), Bodnarchuk (??), Korneichuk (??) - representatives of Ukraine; Fr. Kushnir; Fr. Savchuk; Fr. Semchuk; Anthony Hlynka.
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Part 1: Nee - Voleniuk (??); Halychyna, Sokal’ region, village Kuberkovychi (??); her father was rich, so they came to Canada for political reasons, not financial; came to Canada with her parents in 1913, when she was 9; settled in Saskatchewan Province, on a farm; the family was Catholic; parents sent her and 2 brothers to the Petro Mohyla Institute in Saskatoon in 1917; Ukrainian life on the farms; Vasyl’ Svystun; Institute’s Choir; Belgium priests, Budka against the Institute; a movement against Rome Catholicism; decision to create the Orthodox Church in 1918; Ukrainian schools and life; SUMC, Panchuk; Dr. Simovych from USA; Dr. Nazaruk; Congress of 1922; students’ organization “Kaminiari”; students’ debates; Catholic students becoming Orthodox ones; UNO; Helen Peters (??); Soiuz ukrainok; Savella finished Teachers College and was teaching; Kliub divchat; Tovarystvo Olhy Kobylians’koi created in 1923; Kharytia Kononenko.
Part 2: Soiuz Ukrainok Ameryky created in 1925; Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady created in 1926; ekzekutyva, 2 sections (one was in Winnipeg with Mrs. Svystun being its Head; another one in Saskatoon with Savella being its Head); Samostiinyky; Konovalets’ visit in 1928; Sushko’s visit; UNO; Ukrains’kyi holos; Myroslav Stechyshyn (??); Mykhailo Stechyshyn (??); Svystun; Svystun and Savchuk; Fr. Kudryk; Savella got a job after the University to give lectures in the area (teaching about Ukrainian embroideries, healthy eating, etc); the name of “samostiinyky”; Stella went to Europe in 1928; Bishops Khomyshyn and Kontselovs’kyi (??) in Halychyna; a writer Andriy Chaikovs’kyi (??) in Kolomyia; “Mariis’ki druzhyny”; Peremyshl’s’kii divochyi instytut; Prof. Mykhailo Vozniak; Panchuk and him teaching at Ridna shkola; CUC creation; Tracy Phillips; Fr. Kushnir; UCSA.
Part 3: Raising money and sending off packages; CUC Congresses; DPs; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Dontsov.
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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 (??)
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Part 1: Born in Halychyna, near Drohobych, village Dolytsia (??) on March 22, 1899; his wife is Pavlina Khomiy (??); he came to Canada on July 12, 1925 (from Gdansk); finished the village school; he was in Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; first came to Quebec, then to Canora; moving to Ontario; Prosvita in Canora; Communists in Canora; building a Catholic church - burned down; moving to Atikokan, Ontario in 1927; Socialists; Bishop Budka; community converting to Orthodoxy in 1934; Seretiuk; SUS; UNO, Charyk (??) in 1938; Strilets’ka hromada; Karpats’ka Ukraina.
Part 2: Prosvita hall; CUC creation; mel’nykivtsi vs banderivtsi; DPs; UPA; Volodymyr Kosar; Novyi shliakh, Farmar journal; Surma.
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Part 1: Was born in what today is Canora, SK, on July 2, 1902; his parents came to Canada in 1900 from the Borshchiv povit, village of Pylypche (??); they were Greek-Catholic, but Roman converted to Orthodoxy; finished School in 1915; internment of Ukrainians during WWI; Orthodoxy; SUS creation; Strilets’ka hromada; Ukrainian Communists; Het’mantsi; UNO; DPs; WWI internment; Ukrainian school; Orthodox theatre group; Dukhobory; Roman went to USA; reciting humoresky.
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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.
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Part 1: Petro Lazarovych (?); choir, soloists; speeches (toasts) during some event dedicated to Svarich; singing Ukrainian songs; Instytut Sv. Ivana in Vegreville (?); Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Svarich was a secretary of several schools.
Part 2: Speeches during an event dedicated to Svarich; Svarich helping DPs; Mnohaia lita song.
Part 3: 1895 - World Exposition in Lviv; Svarich was delegated there as a schoolboy; plays; getting lost in Lviv; Kostiushko and revolution; Ivan Mateiko painted the revolution;Rudolf; was elected a candidate from a radical party (?); serving in an army; 1896 - his Birthday celebration; songs singing; reading memoirs of Zvarich.
Part 4: Svarich about learning English; childhood, school, desire to study; gymnasium.
Part 5: Posmertna promova Zvarycha after his funeral in Narodnyi Dim
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Part 6: Singing songs (“Dyvlius’ ia na nebo” and others) with a piano accompaniment - those are the songs that Petro Zvarich recorded at the Conservatory of Prof. Berezenets’. These songs will be performed on February 14 in Victoria (?) by the Society SUMC (?) by Victoria Meletiuk (?) and Morris Lourier (??). Victoria was chosen as a Queen of SUMC in Winnipeg in 1963. She is a known violinist (?), piano-player and dancer. She is currently a student at the Arts Department, at St. John’s Institute. Morri Lourier (?) speaks only French and English but ings Ukrainian songs; he is a conductor of the French choir but takes part in Ukrainian concerts. Songs: “Dumka”, “I sad zatsviv”, “Vladyko neba i zemli”. Songs from the opera “The May Night”; a speech of Ivan Baran.
Part 7: A recording of a Concert; Svarich came to Canada in 1900 from Halychyna; Petro Ostyniuk (??) sings a song in English and Ukrainian; Svarich about his mother’s artistic talents; she wants him to be a priest; he was conscripted in the army and came back in 1899; they went to Canada; in 1903 Basilians settled next to them, and his mother helped them; in 1913 went to visit the youngest daughter they left in the Old Country; in 1915 sold their farm and moved to Edmonton; in 1919 his father died and his mother died in 1935; in 1918, when Ukrainian Orthodox Church was founded in Canada, Svarich and his relatives joined it but his mother preferred to remain Catholic so that she could be buried together with her husband; conflict between his mother and a Catholic priest; mother’s cancer; leaving money for churches; mother’s death and funeral.
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Part 1: Born on September 20, 1928 in Espanola; finished Secondary School; his brother Dmytro died accidentally; his mother was a teacher; local Hall was built in 1919; Ivan Khatych (??) the builder; Prosvita; his mother was Yustyna Onys’ka (??); local choir - teacher Mykhal’s’kyi (??); MUN in 1947-49 organized by Mykhailo Orekhivs’kyi (??); lost their Hall; Vasyl’ Stebnyk (??) was a Head of MUN; in 1946, their Paper Plant started working again; priests coming, using the Catholic Church in Espanola for Orthodox services; Fr. Opyima (??); Fr. Barabus (??); Fr. Karpins’kyi (??); Fr. Kalykh (??); Fr. Jurma (??); his father opened a store in 1928; other commerces in the city; Mr. Saiko (??) owning a food store; DPs; Syroid was a UNO member; is a member of Ukrainian Professional Club (?); Senator Yuzyk; Dr. Liupol (??); Syroid has 3 sons; his parents bringing an orphan relative from Halychyna and giving her education in Canada.
Part 2: Subscribing to the Ukrainian newspapers Oko, Postup, Svitlo
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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.
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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.
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Part 1: Nee - Denishevska (??); born in Alberta, grew up in Edmonton; her mother came from Ukraine when she was 6-7, in 1900, her family settled in Vegreville; her father came in the 1900s as a diachyk, settled in the Mundare area, he built the first chapel over there; Mary’s father left the monastery and married her mother; they started the Orthodox Church in Canada; Mary met her husband in Edmonton, he was born in Mykolaiv; they both danced in the Avramenko Group; in 1935 they moved to Saskatoon and opened up a book store; she taught a church choir, Petro Mohyla Institute choir, youth choir, she was elected to the Provincial Executive as a representative of the Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady in 1930; in 1934, was elected as Vice-President of the National Executive of the Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady; Central Executive moved from Edmonton to Saskatoon and has originated Soiuz Ukrainok in Saskatoon; during WWII she was a Head of the Tsentralia Soiuzu ukrainok Kanady; in 1941, National Council of Women in Canada had a convention in Winnipeg, she spoke about Ukrainian Women role; Mrs. Ruryk, Mrs. Madiuk (??); putting a collection at the Mohyla Institute; in 1941, they opened a museum to the public; Melania Burianyk (??), Sonia Stratiichuk (??); Sonia Synyshyn (??); Mary Modiuk (??); Hanka Romanchych (??); Folk Arts Council; Soiuz ukraintsiv samostiinykiv; she was born in 1912 near Vegreville.
Part 2: Teaching at schools; 1930 - she began teaching; Russian Orthodox Church; during Depression teaching choir in Redway; she was a member of Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady; Sichovi Stril’tsi; Soiuz ukraintsiv samostiinykiv; Fr. Savchuk, Stechyshyn; UNO in Edmonton, Dorosh, Hryhorovych, Hlynka; different waves of immigration - comparison; CUC creation - Simpson, Corconnel (??), Tracy Phillips; SUS; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Soiuz ukrainok Kanady; Prof. Fotiy (??); Ukrainian Communists; Ukrainian conscription debates; Mr. Hnatyshyn, helping the War efforts, packing parcels.
Part 3: Helping DPs in camps; Panchuk; relations with DPs in Canada; Mrs. Holovata; Orthodox church priests; women’s movement; local council of women; DP women; International conference of Museums in Leningrad and Moscow; going to museums of Kyiv and Lviv; nee - Yanishevs’ka (??), her husband - Pavlo Tkachuk (born in 1903, Orthodox), he left Ukraine in 1923 via Spain and Cuba but he got to Canada only in 1926; worked in Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Avramenko.
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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.
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Part 1: Nee - Burianyk; born on September 26, 1907 in Stanislaviv; came to Canada in 1913; family was Ukrainian-Catholic; her husband was one of the founders of the Sichovi Stril’tsi in Canada; reasons for creating the organization; Kosar; Gulai (??); Prof. Pavliuchenko; Kosar; Ukrainian Mission overseas, Yaremovych; Khraplyva; James Cool (??) - Director of the Mission in Ottawa; Panchuk; Dmytro Omilevskyi (??); Andriievs’kyi (??); Korostovets’ (??); Danylo Skoropads’kyi; SUS; Smilskyi (??), Klymash (??); Berezovs;kyi (??); DP camps, Mrs. French from Canada (writer for a magazine) visiting camps; Dr. Stephan Biliak (??); Davydenko; Andriievs’kyi (??) - a higher ranking mel’nykivets’; people from UPA in DP camps; a fake DP story; Lysenko camp; Mr. and Mrs. Yanda (??) from Edmonton getting to camps; Kosar, Mr. Mandryka.
Part 2: Content of letters written by Anne Wasylyshyn; Panchuk; Tarnovets’kyi (??) bringing many intellectuals from camps to Canada; Mr. Kokhan took over after Mrs. mandryka; disappointment in DPs; the Wasylyshyns returned to Canada in 1950; dirty rumors about the Wasylyshyns; Donna Baxtra (??); Final Report; Mrs. Khraplyva.
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Part 1: Born on March 27, 1910 in Canada; his parents came in 1906-1907 from Sokal’ povit; they emigrated for economic reasons; Ukrainian Catholics; Hanushchak (??); WWI and WWII; Narodnyi Dim; parents subscribed to Kanadiiskyi farmar, Ukrains’ki visti; Stechyshyn and Institute; teacher Zherebko (??); he was teachung Ukrainian after classes; Savchuk; WWII, Ukrainian-Canadian Servicemen Club in London.
Part 2: Discrimination against Ukrainians; Mohyla Institute and church; he was at the Mohyla Institute in 1923-1926; St. Joseph School; he got his BA, went teaching; he joined BUC; UNO; Communists; Het’mantsi; UCSA; Horoshko, Savchuk; Panchuk; Ann Khraplyva; Tony Yaremovych (??); Gordon (??); Skoropads’kyi.
Part 3: DP camps; Ukrainian-Canadian Legion; Panchuk; impact of DPs; Dr. Leko (??).
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Part 1: Born on July 14, 1914 (??) in a village of Myrnovets’ (??), Ternopil’ region; Greek-Catholic; his father participated in vyzvol’ni zmahannia; returned from a POW camp in 1921, and in 1928 went to Canada; Lev went to Canada in 1930 (Warsaw - Gdynia - ???); found a job of a simster (??); Strilets’ka Hromada; protses Romana Bidy (??); reasons for Ukrainian emigration; creating UNO in Toronto, Kosar, Pavliuchenko, Guliai (??), Zelenyi, Vasylyshyn, Hryhorovych, Hlynka; Kupchenko (??); Mykyta Romaniuk (??); Romaniuk; Kornylo Magera (??); Karpats’ka Ukraina; Aviation school (??); Stephan Pavliuk, Ievhen Stavryk, Tarnovyi (??) came in 1934, organizing a Telegraph School (??).
Part 2: The Telegraph School (??); Pavliuk and Tarnovyi left; then Oleksa Shestovs’kyi (??), Zalishchuk (??), Ambroziy Shestovs’kyi (??), Mykhailo Kalyniuk (??) - created in 1937 an aviation school (??); Petro Antokhii (??) donated his own commercial airplane; when WWII started, Zalishchuk and Ladyka were the first instructors in the Canadian Air Forces; 14 pilots from that school joined the Air Forces; UNO vs Het’mantsi; Bosyi (??); Tracy Phillips; UNO vs BUC; Fr. Kushnir; creation of CUC; SUS; Tracy Phillips; Kushnir & Kosar; Stechyshyn; Savchuk; Vasyl Burianyk (??); Ruryk (??); DPs; Samostiinyky & DPs; MUN; Kosar; Pavliuchenko; Tracy Phillips; George Simpson; Kirkconnell (??); CUC creation was prompted by the government.
Part 3: Choosing the Head of CUC; 1st and 2nd Congresses of CUC; 1946 - CUC Congress in Toronto; Wowk was in Army in 1945; confiscation of the Communist properties; discussing during the Congress what to do with the DPs; Panchuk; Froliak; Wowk wrote Froliak’s speech for the 1st Congress; Kokhan and CUC; Kushnir; Vasylyshyn and Dopomohovyi Fond in Europe; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi (??)-Davydovych (??)-Kysylevs’kyi (??); Turans’kyi (??) created the Club Ukrains’kykh voiakiv in London, not Panchuk.
Part 4: Panchuk; Davydovych from UNO; Dr. K; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi from OUN; Novyi shliakh moving from Edmonton to Saskatoon; DPs & Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy, banderivtsi vs melnykivtsi; Zahariichuk (??); Kokhan (??); Ivanchuk; Mandryka (??); Vasylyshyn; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO, Pohorets’kyi, Yuzyk; Kosar was negative towards it.
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