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Bagan, Alex
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c009.A · Item · 29 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Bayrak, Mykhailo
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c010 · Item · 10 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Babiuk, John
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c008.A · Item · 6 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Behun, Paul
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c011 · Item · 5 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Billings, Gregory
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c013.A · Item · 5 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Boykowich, Michael
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c018 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Boychuk, Alexander
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c015 · Item · 25 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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

Boyko, Nick
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c017 · Item · 27 Jul. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Bozek, Anna
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c019 · Item · 23 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Bratko, Dan
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c020 · Item · 27 Mar. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Bukowsky, Nikander
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c021-022 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Davies, Raymond Arthur
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c016;035 · Item · 6 Jun. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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 .

Davidovich, Stephen
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c028-029 · Item · 17 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Decore, John (Judge)
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c030-034;036-053 · Item
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Derewlany, Nick
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c056 · Item · 26 Apr. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Dzurman, B. (Reverent)
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c059 · Item · 16 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Dyryk, Anthony and Jenny
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c058 · Item · 9 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Anthony was born in ???? in Halychyna. Came to Canada in 1922 and till 1939 stayed in ?????

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.

Elyniak, Vasyl
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c060 · Item · 11 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.