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A description of a wedding in Saskatchewan

A description of wedding customs in the Lviv region beginning with match-making customs, engagement, making of wreaths, and korovai, the wedding ceremony and leave taking

Ukrainian mythology for professor B. Medwidsky includes storytelling by interviewees collected in fieldwork.

Ukrains'ka fol'klorystyka v svitli pivnichnoamerykans'kykh fol'klorystychnykh tendentsii druhoi polovyny XX stolittia; Pisni, zibrani T. Koshyts' v podorozhi po Kanadi 1950 roku (13 pp. essay in Ukrainian); R. B. Klymasz. Ukrainian Folklore in Canada: An Immigrant Complex in Transition. ARNO Press: New York, 1980. (Reprint of doctoral thesis, University of Indiana, 1970) (6 pp. essay in Ukrainian); R. B. Klymasz Folk Narrative Among Ukrainian-Canadians in Western Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies. Paper no. 4, 1973. (2 pp. essay in Ukrainian); Bibliografiia ukrains'koho fol'kloru v Kanadi i USA, 1964-1988 rr. (8 pp. Ukrainian and English)

A study to determine what traditions are being revived or revised in the weddings of young Canadian Ukrainians during the years 1965-1988

Describes various ways of weather forecasting by using signs and symbols from nature as practiced in Manitoba

Embroidered wall hanging. Pattern is in cross stitch on black felt and features a village scene with people standing infront of a thatched roof house and a church. The picture is surounded on all four sides with a 9 cm wide boarder of geometric triangle and diamond motifs. There is a hole in each of the two top corners created to help hang the piece.