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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CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c157
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31 Mar. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.001
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.002
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.003
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.004
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.005
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.006
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.007
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.008
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.009
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.010
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.011
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.012
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.013
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.014
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.015
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.016
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.017
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.018
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection
CA BMUFA 0074-2-UF2012.012.019
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Part of Olga Vesey Ukrainian folk tales collection