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Files 9-21 contain letters written by the UMAA (1973-1984). Files 22- 31 contain letters written to UMAA by various people and organizations. Includes business letters from the Alberta Culture & Youth Recreation, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (KYK), the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian Music Foundation, "Obyednannya Zhinok LVY ta Oseredok SUM v Edmontoni", "DNIPRO", "Hor Ukrainskoyi Pravoslavnoyi Hromady", the Department of Music at the University of Alberta, Heritage Savings & Trust Co., St. John's Fraternal Society, Ukrainian National Federation of Canada, and the University of Alberta. Includes personal letters from Pavlo Matzenko, Vera Vasyl Kuida, Genya Savka, Z. Lawryshyn, Yurii Fiala, Volodymyr Kolesnyk, as well as thank you cards from Yurii Kowalsky and Neonilla Dmytruk.

The series consists of general information about Alberta Parents for Ukrainian Education Society (APUE), but also about other parental organizations (Manitoba and Calgary), as well as of the role of parents involved as partners in education. It provides information about the structure, aims, activities of each parental organization (conferences, festivals, carolling, anniversary celebrations and day camps. There are financial records, grants, HR information. correspondence, promotional materials, as well as records on education policy in Alberta.

The series consists of information about the Parents Advisory Committee (PAC) for the Ukrainian Bilingual Program in the Edmonton Catholic School System (ECS) and the Edmonton Catholic Schools Ukrainian Bilingual Parent Advisory Society (PAS). It includes PAC's meeting agendas, minutes, and correspondence (1974-1981). There are also records of PAS, incorporated in 1982, as well as information about general activities of the Edmonton Catholic Schools concerning the Ukrainian Bilingual program. The records provide information about the PAS's meetings and correspondence from 1982 until 1989. There is also information about the extension of the UBP, claimed by ECS-PAC.

As a counterpart of UBLA, the Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) was founded in 1975 under the auspices of the Edmonton Catholic School Boards to serve the Ukrainian Bilingual Program’s needs in the Separate School System. One of PAC’s main concerns was to provide assistance with the provision of transportation services for students enrolled in the Ukrainian-Bilingual Program. In 1982, the Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) stopped appearing in the documents. Instead, the documents were signed by the Parent Advisory Society.

The series consists of records documenting the beginning and incorporation of UBLA (Ukrainian Bilingual Association) in the 1970s and about its work in the 1980s. It also includes UBLA's publicity, correspondence, agendas and meeting minutes, and financial records.

This series also contains information about the activities of Edmonton Public Schools (EPS) in the Ukrainian Bilingual Program from 1974 until 1988. Apart from general activities concerning EPS, there are records containing information about some schools in the UBP, for example Northmount, Balwin Junior, Holyrood, and Brentwood.

The Ukrainian Bilingual Association (UBLA) is a non-profit parental organization formed in 1974 to assist the establishment of the Ukrainian Bilingual Program in Edmonton Public Schools. UBLA’s goal was to develop bilingual language education programs in the Province of Alberta. UBLA prepared submissions to the Government of Alberta and organized publicity and recruitment campaigns on behalf of the bilingual program. Specifically, its projects included the recruitment of students, the arrangement of transportation of bilingual program students in the Edmonton Public School System, Junior High School Scholarships and publicity, increasing public awareness of the availability and existence of Ukrainian language education in Alberta schools. Furthermore, UBLA subsidized the annual Grade 6 graduation banquet and dance, and it organized the Ukrainian Daycamp – an extension of the UBP – until the foundation of APUE in 1984.

The series consists of material of the Alberta Ukrainian Dance Association (AUDA) from 1986 to 1995. There are AUDA's newsletters and various documents, for example drawings, timetables.

The series consists of three passports and nine certificates. It includes birth, baptism, immigration, vaccination, marriage, and naturalization certificates.

The series contains working papers pertaining to the founding and development of the Kalyna Country project including Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Trust Society, Kalyna Country Destination Marketing organization, and other constitutive parts of the project. These documents include (but are not limited to):

• grant applications,
• meeting minutes,
• bylaws,
• development strategies,
• action plans,
• budgets,
• receipts of money transfers,
• variety of reports,
• certificate about changes of the objectives,
• lists of board directors, executive officers, and other members of the administration,
• extensive correspondence,
• materials of conference meetings,
• clippings of newspaper publications about Kalyna Country project,
• a brief history of the organization,
• biographies of prominent people, writers, politicians, and artists, born in the territories constituting the Kalyna Country Ecomuseum: Michael Gowda, Illia Kiriak, Kupchenko family, Kostash family, Joseph Yasenchuk, William Kurylek, Michael Luchkovich among others,
• set of visitor's and events guides and booklets.

There are also several folders organized by the creator containing the following documents:

• "An Alphabetical Concordance to the Central and East European Place Names in the Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Area"
• Native peoples (Cree)
• Fur trade posts and Missions
• "Centennial Landscaping and Highway beautification project east Yellowhead Highway Corridor," a brief prepared by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Alberta Provincial Council
• Building condition report, Ukrainian Church, Smoky Lake, Alberta. Prepared for the Facilities Management Division.

The popular music and politics in Ukraine, 2004-2012 are research materials and publications collected by Dr. Klid for his research. They resulted in the article "Rock, Pop and Politics in Ukraine’s 2004 Presidential Campaign and Orange Revolution". An electronic copy of the article is part of the donation.

The series consists of meeting minutes, library contents, financial records of the Ukrainian Educational Association (Укр. Тов. Просьвіта ім. М. Павлика) in Vermillion, AB, and a handwritten play script for Vertep performance.

This series consists of the correspondence from Mykhailo Bilas to Chester and Luba Kuc, information about an exhibit of Mykhailo Bilas' works that Chester and Luba Kuc put up in the UNO hall in 2004 (flyer, copy of tapestries, list of sale items, artist's biography), originals and copies of Bilas's works, as well as publications and clippings about M. Bilas.

Variety of folk dances descriptions with music sheets.

This series includes records and objects associated with the Zarsky family, particularly anniversaries and weddings. It consists of 3 apostolic blessings, an embroidered tray, and wedding artefacts, including the wedding dress, veil, gloves, vines, groom's tie, ring holder, and cake topper.

1. V.Makar, “Roman Shukhevych-Chuprynka” (Liha Vyzvolennia Ukrainy, Holovna Uprava), 1975.
2. Roman Malashchuk. “Kruty, 1918 - 29.I.1967.”
3. David R. Marples. “Taras Shevchenko's Ukraine.” March 8, 1992.
4. Mykhailo Marunchak. “Na porozi 90-richchia ukrains'koho poselennia y Kanadi.”
5. Oleksander Maslianyk. “Oseredok N.T.Sh. na Zakhidnu Kanadu,
   ioho istoriia ta diial'nist'.”
6. “Inzh. Volodymyr M. Mats'kiv ta ioho nainovishi uspikhy.”
7. Oleksandr Maslianyk (?). "Oseredok N.T.Sh. na zakhidniu Kanadu z osidkom v Edmontoni."
8. "Promo iepyskopa Ukraїns'koї Pravoslavnoї Tserkvy Vsevoloda Maidanskoho na Synodi UHKTs"
9. Nina Mryts. "Ukraїnska dytiacha knyzhka - dopomizhnyi vykhovnyi zasib," Dopovid' vyholoshena na Vykhovnomu Seminari v Toronti, 1962.
10. About Ivan Mazepa: "Het'man Ivan Mazepa" (Orhanizatsiia Ukraїnok Kanady - Tsentralna Uprava).
11. M. Marynchak. Sorok Rokiv Komitetu Ukraїntsiv Kanady na peredovii storozhi ukraїns'koї kul'tury i samobutnosty." Dopovid' vyholoshena na 13-omu Kongresi Ukraintsiv Kanady, Winnipeg, 11 zhovtnia 1980.
12. Mykhailo Marunchak. "Sluzhba Bozha ta posviachennia Khresta Svobody."

1. Canadian League for Ukraine's Liberation. Taras Shevchenko.
2. Chaikivska L. "Uliana Kravchenko: Zhyttia i tvorchist'" (referat).

Files 35-44 include "Memories from the Auswitch Concentration Camp", "Memories", a speech written by Lahola to commemorate his 33 years of liberation from Auswitch, memoirs of Father Yurii Kowalsky, and interviews, newspaper articles about World War 2.
Files 45-50 contain biographies, articles, photographs of other individuals involved in W.W.II (associates of Lahola). Individuals include Petro Bolekhivs'kyi Boian, O. Kliuk, Mykola Klymyshyn, and Yurii Kowalsky.

Files 51 to 81 contain files from Lahola's Community Life in Canada. Includes Lahola's collection of information from UCAMA, the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, RUKH, SUSK, KYK/UCC - Ukrainian Canadian Committee, Ukrainska Narodna Pomich (Ukrainian National Assistance), Ukrainian Canadian Social Services, various Ukrainian churches, St. Michael's Extended Care Centre, Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine, UVAN, Ukrainian Cultural & Educational Centre, Ukrainian Book Store, Ukrainian Musical Society of Edmonton, Ukrainian Woman's Organization of Canada, St. John's Institute, Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Edmonton Eparchy, Organization for the Broadening of Ukrainian Language and Culture in Alberta, SUM, PLAST, Ukrainian National Home in Edmonton, Orhanizatsia Ukrainskoho Vyzvolenoho Frontu, Buh River Region 9 Association, Past Ukrainian Political Prisoners, Ukrainian Association of Political Prisoners and the Repressed, Against Dishonouring the Ukrainian Liberation Movement, Brotherhood of the Veterans of the 1st Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army, World league of Ukrainian Political Prisoners, Fort Edmonton, and the Ukrainian Bilingual Program.

Files 82 to 104 contain brochures from various Ukrainian function. Includes brochures from Ukrainian dance groups, Shevchenko concerts, misc. cultural events/concerts (non-religious), Doctor's Congress: East Meets West, Harvard, Easter Concert (1977), church bulletins, misc. banquet programs, Ukrainian Settlement in Alberta, Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian National Federation, religious events, anniversary banquets for various priests, Ukrainian Canadian Centennial Festival, celebrations commemorating various people, Ukrainian nationalist events, exhibits/literature events, opera programs, L'viv - Commemoration of 50 years since Ukraine was free, OYH, misc. English brochures, ticket stubs, and commemorative ribbons.

The series consists of business (sometimes also private) correspondence with Atanas Figol, Ivan Kerestil, Volodymyr Kubijovych, Eugene Borys, Myr. Hladyshevsky, Wasyl Markus, and many others addressing issues of subscription to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine in Western Canada; the series also contains materials of Kubijovych and Figol visits to Edmonton, financial reports, leaflets, minutes, lists of subscribers and donators, as well as newspaper clippings about the fundraising for the Encyclopedia. Biographies (and scanned portraits) of the following donors-founders of the Encyclopedia are included:

Альбертське товариство для збереження української культури
Базюк, Дмитро і Стефанія (Рудакевич)
Борух, Іван
Голод, Роман
Гураль, Осип і Неоніля (Стефанів)
Завалень, Антін
Іванець, Василь
Іванусів, Микола і Марія (Ших)
Іванусів, Ярослав
Кавулич, Михайло і Леся (Кубрак)
Климкович, Остап
Козяк, Іван та Марія (Войтків)
Костів, Ярослав і Даниїла (Прокоп)
Кучер, Михайло Стефан і Богданна (Боссак-Волинець)
Ліга українських католицьких жінок Канади / Ukrainian Catholic Women's League of Canada
Маркевич, Володимир і Анна (Ядловська)
Маркевич, Любомир і Дарія (Луців)
Монастирський, Степан і Монастирська, Ольга (Оленюк)
Олійник, Роман і Магдалина ( Костур)
Олійник, Богдан Володимир і Орися Роксоляна ( Іванусів)
Панас, Ігнатій і Єлисавета (Іваніцька)
Семотюк, Василь
Славутич, Яр (+ original photo)
Смолинський, Василь і Смолинська Ізаберлла (Бендзінська)
Смолинський, Іван Хризостом
Станиця 1-шої Української дивізії УНА
Тарнавський, Володимир і Тарнаська, Степанія (Смик)
Ткачук, Мирослав
Українська Кредитова Спілка в Едмонтоні / Ukrainian (Edmonton) Credit Union Limited
Українське національне об'єднання в Едмонтоні
Чехут-Климкович, Софія
Чехут, Богдан
Чехут, Павло

The series consists of materials of fundraising in Alberta for the Leonid Pliouchtch family who fled the USSR and emigrated to France.