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Olynyk, Stephen
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c214 · Item · 31 May 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Olynyk, Roman
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c135 · Item · 14 Jun. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.