Part 1: Churches in Oshawa; Starshevs’kyi (??) the great person; Sosnovs’kyi; Alberman (??); Strielts’ka hromada in Edmonton; rivalry between Hlynka and Decore; building a Hall; Senator Yuzyk; Magera (???); Laybak (???); Stechyshyn, “Kredo”; Kosar; Hlytay (??); posviachennia praporu Sichovykh stril’tsiv by Colonnel Kurmanovcyh (??).
Part 2: Pavliuk (??); Colonel Moran (??); DPs and conflicts with them; Mel’nykivtsi taking over the UNO; Pavliuchenko; Kosar; Yuzyk; Semen Hladun (??); Kosar as a Head of UNO; Dmytro Suvanets’ (??) from Edmonton; Pohoretskyi (??) the Editor; Vasyl’ Rulyk (??); publishing house moving from Saskatoon to Winnipeg, buying a building for it; usunennia Kosaria; editor of “Slovo”, Rossokha (??); 1960 - Komitet na ozdorovlennia UNO in Winnipeg; Klub ukrains’kykh-kanadiis’kykh voiakiv; Davydovych; Andrukhovych in Saskatoon (son of a priest) in RCMP; CUC; Kosar as a unifier.
The collection consists of personal documents of Anna and Wasyl Kuryliw, family photographs, correspondence between Wasyl and Anna, and other materials.
The film Chapters & Verses: Action Bill's Walk through Life - a documentary about Wasyl Kuryliw directed by his daughter Oksana Kuryliw and produced by Oksana Kuryliw and John Leeson is also part of this collection. Other materials include: Sonia Holiad's introduction to the premier screening of the film on September 12, 2017 at the Spadina Theatre at Alliance Française in Toronto; photographs of the Edmonton screening of the film, on October 27, 2017, and a poster of the event; and poems by Ivan Franko handwritten by Wasyl Kuryliw, which he used to take with him to work around 1965-1974 in Sudbury.
Anna Kuryliw's wedding dress with the veil is also part of this collection, as well as the wedding photograph of Wasyl and Anna. There is also a photo print of 4 women (Anna among them - 3rd from the left) with a sewing machine, which was bought by Vasyl and sent to the Old Country with the proposal to Anna to marry her. Her wedding gown was sewn with it.
Kuryliw familyPart 1: Born on July 24, 1905; his father was a Ukrainian priest; Anatol was the oldest of 7 children; father died of typhus soon after the WWI when Anatol was 14; after school, he studied at a bursa and was very poor; was composing poetry early in life - published his first works while at the 8 Grade; was multilingual; was arrested and wrote poetry in a prison; Bohdan Pidhainyi (???); Mykola Romanovych (??); belonged to a partisan Plast organization (and arrested for it); UPA; Ukrains’ka viis’kova orhanizatsia; Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; poet Chushko (??); Communist and Nationalist circles in classes; Anatol hang political leaflets; had good grades and enrolled in Law studies; was conscripted in the army and was serving for the kasovyi starshyna (??); publishing his poems in the Ukrainian press (Novyi chas, 1928); his book The Land (1964).
Part 2: Arrest and a prison in Berezhany; starving in protest; OUN; gymnasium hard life, earning money by writing; studies at the Lviv University; working at the newspapers, censorship; Halychyna population supporting OUN; Communists and Soviet power; OUN ideology and general political situation; OUN and Jews; him being arrested by Polish army in 1927; Druzhyny ukrains’kykh natsionalistiv’s methods; OUN network; Kokhan, UNDO (??); Sokal’shchyna - bastion natsionalizmu; Paliy (??) - UNO; Romaniv in Sokal’; Kurdydyk was wounded and transferred to Ukrainian lands under Germans; Poles and Jews; a prison in Korostiv (??).
Part 1: Born on March 14, 1919 in a village of Kupchakivka (??), Subcarpathia; his father was a member of Chytal’nia; his father served in the Austrian army and fought on various fronts; Ukrainians and Poles living next to each other; Pacification events; relations between Ukrainians and Jews; his school was built under Poland - anti-Ukrainian attitudes of teachers; his father died and left many debts, Alex had to work hard and pay those off; went to attend a revolutionary course (??) in Mykulychyn in 1937, then in Verkhovyna.
Part 2: Germans annexing the Sudetes; Transcarpathian Sichovi stril’tsi; he came back after finishing his studies; in 1939 the Poles ran away and Soviets came, a Jew, Reich coming to organize life in his village; organizing the local militsia; repressions; Alex ran away, crossed the border to Poland on the San River; getting to a refugee camp in Cracow under Germans; signed up for work in Germany and got to Bransbaid (???) (thousands of workers in a camp there building planes); then moved to Berlin, got a job in a publishing house (??); Alex was a zv’azkovyi in Berlin for a nationalist organization (??); in location Marionfild (??) was a students’ meeting.
Poster advertising for an opera event at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Alberta. Event to take place June 18 and 19, 1981.