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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.

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.

Part 2: Incomprehensible, not able to hear anything because of the sound quality

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.

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.

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.

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
Sections of incomprehensible sound starting from 3.02 through 8.55, further through 12.30 and till the end.

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.