Part 1: Nee - Denishevska (??); born in Alberta, grew up in Edmonton; her mother came from Ukraine when she was 6-7, in 1900, her family settled in Vegreville; her father came in the 1900s as a diachyk, settled in the Mundare area, he built the first chapel over there; Mary’s father left the monastery and married her mother; they started the Orthodox Church in Canada; Mary met her husband in Edmonton, he was born in Mykolaiv; they both danced in the Avramenko Group; in 1935 they moved to Saskatoon and opened up a book store; she taught a church choir, Petro Mohyla Institute choir, youth choir, she was elected to the Provincial Executive as a representative of the Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady in 1930; in 1934, was elected as Vice-President of the National Executive of the Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady; Central Executive moved from Edmonton to Saskatoon and has originated Soiuz Ukrainok in Saskatoon; during WWII she was a Head of the Tsentralia Soiuzu ukrainok Kanady; in 1941, National Council of Women in Canada had a convention in Winnipeg, she spoke about Ukrainian Women role; Mrs. Ruryk, Mrs. Madiuk (??); putting a collection at the Mohyla Institute; in 1941, they opened a museum to the public; Melania Burianyk (??), Sonia Stratiichuk (??); Sonia Synyshyn (??); Mary Modiuk (??); Hanka Romanchych (??); Folk Arts Council; Soiuz ukraintsiv samostiinykiv; she was born in 1912 near Vegreville.
Part 2: Teaching at schools; 1930 - she began teaching; Russian Orthodox Church; during Depression teaching choir in Redway; she was a member of Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady; Sichovi Stril’tsi; Soiuz ukraintsiv samostiinykiv; Fr. Savchuk, Stechyshyn; UNO in Edmonton, Dorosh, Hryhorovych, Hlynka; different waves of immigration - comparison; CUC creation - Simpson, Corconnel (??), Tracy Phillips; SUS; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Soiuz ukrainok Kanady; Prof. Fotiy (??); Ukrainian Communists; Ukrainian conscription debates; Mr. Hnatyshyn, helping the War efforts, packing parcels.
Part 3: Helping DPs in camps; Panchuk; relations with DPs in Canada; Mrs. Holovata; Orthodox church priests; women’s movement; local council of women; DP women; International conference of Museums in Leningrad and Moscow; going to museums of Kyiv and Lviv; nee - Yanishevs’ka (??), her husband - Pavlo Tkachuk (born in 1903, Orthodox), he left Ukraine in 1923 via Spain and Cuba but he got to Canada only in 1926; worked in Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Avramenko.
This item is a transcript of an interview with TJ Fenton, conducted July 5, 2018.
This item is an audio recording of an interview with TJ Fenton, conducted July 5, 2018.
Birth, wedding and death rites in "Tiny zabutykh predkiv"
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