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A collection of records of Elsie Kawulych family, correspondence with relatives in Ukraine, Argentina and Brazil, photographs, phonograph records, ethnic clothing, posters, and an interview with Elsie Kawulych (recorded on August 7, 2014).

The collection consists of various research materials compiled by Elizabeth Holinaty during her career as a weaver and active community member, including 14 binders with photographs, newspaper clippings, other research material on various folk costumes, weaving, kylymy, poiasy, rushnyky, headware, Ukrainian breads, korovai, Easter traditions, etc.; 18 woven and/or embroidered clothing pieces; calendars; posters; phonograph and video recordings.

This collection contains an analysis of the structure of a poetic form "dumy" for mood, emphasis, and rhythm on the overall effect of the poem.

The collection comprises materials pertained to Doris Yanda's activities as a member of the Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada, philanthropist, writer, community leader, and distinguished master of weaving and egg painting. It includes correspondence, notebooks, checks and receipts of donations, book and workshops materials, etc.

A collection of envelopes with postmarks from various Canadian locations, specifically those that have Ukrainian place names. There are envelopes from 40 locations, two envelopes for each location, with four exceptions (one has four envelopes and three have three). All but one location is in Canada, mostly from the Prairies (e.g. Stryi, Wostok, Odesa), and one is in the US (Mazeppa). All envelopes are empty and are accompanied by a draft letter from Chrysant L. Dmytruk to post offices with a request to cancel the envelope he was mailing them, accompanied by one reply from the Edmonton District Director of Postal Services with his comments on the collecting project.

Two books: "Canadian Place Names of Ukrainian Origin" and "2000 Place Names of Alberta"

The collection comprises newspaper clippings, copies of letters, and pre-electoral materials of Kupiak ran for Conservatives in 1972 federal election, the accusation of Kupiak in committing atrocities and his response to the accusation. It also includes the "Retribution" brochure (Розплата. Документи і матеріали судового процесу над групою бандитів ОУН, упор. Верета Л., Чудовський В.; Львів: Каменяр, 1970).

The collection consists of fieldwork materials and essays collected by Demjan Hohol for folklore courses.

A collection of texts of songs, proverbs and customs collected from informants in Alberta. Appendix contains text of a religious letter from Father Kuban.

The collection consists of incorporation documents, applications and registration, reports, financial records, promotional materials, staff recruitment and program development records, and course materials.

Oral History Project was implemented by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in 1982-1984. During that period of time two researchers -- Lubomyr Luciuk and Zenon Zwarycz -- interviewed more than 135 members of the Ukrainian community all over Canada, both immigrants and those already born in Canada. The interviews were digitized in 2014-2016 producing a database of over 400 sound files. The interviews focus on the Ukrainian organizational life both in the Old Country and Canada, as well as political and/or social activities of the interviewees. They also encompass childhood and formative years of each interviewee, their education, family stories, participation in the Ukrainian War of Independence, WWI, routes of emigration to Canada, patterns of settlement within Canada, relations with a broader Canadian society; WWII, DPs, Ukrainian-Canadian institutions, prominent personalities, as well as the religious and political mosaic inside the Ukrainian community in Canada.

Jars Balan interviewed several people who were crucial for the development of Ukrainian studies in Canada. Oleksandr Pankieiev recorded the interview. Jars Balan on behalf of CIUS deposited a copy of the interviews to the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives.

The collection consists of 31 issues of the monthly humorous magazine Beztaktnist self-published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, edited mainly by David Marples; an obituary to Havrylo Ciusovych Harmatenko; and an interview with Andrij Hornjatkevyc about these publications recorded by Kateryna Kod at the time of donation.

Beztaktnist was self-published monthly magazine by CUIS for several years. It started when the CIUS was located in Athabasca Hall and the office of the PhD candidate David Marples who is now the Professor at the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta was behind the wall from the office of the CUIS director Manoly Lupul. When David Marples would hear some slips of the tongue or jokes from the office, he would later publish them and circulate calling it Beztaktnist. This publication served the role of a buffoon, like in older days buffoons were able to tell not only jokes but the truth or voice their opinions to the kings without being punished for that, Beztaktnist was that buffoon in CIUS. Different topics were published without censorship about CUIS life, everybody included their stories but the main editor was David Marples.

Havrylo story: there was a copier in Athabasca building that was used by all the departments located in the building. Each department had a small page counter that was inserted in the copier in order to count the pages so at the end of the month to pay for copying. The amount of the copies done by each department should coincide with the amount that would be on the inner page counter in the copier itself. It came up that the CIUS page counter was named Havrylo and it was discovered that if Havrylo is
not inserted into the copier completely it will not count pages. So many copies were done, including the periodical Beztaktnist free of charge. Later it was discovered that the amount of the copies on the inner and external counters did not coincide, so the new program was installed on the copier and Havrylo came out of use, “became unemployed”. When it was known some people together with Andrij Hornjatkevyc wrote an obituary for Havrylo Ciusovych Harmatenko (the copier was Canon) and asked to announce it on the radio. Roman Brytan announced it on the radio and even chose a song by Seniors Choir that sang “Oi iz-za hory kam’ianoi”. The original text of the obituary is added to this collection.

With time Marples was leaving CIUS and going to Munich to work at Radio Svoboda and he asked for the copies of this periodical from Andrij Hornjatkevych, who was not willing to share. Another joke that CIUS had was the theory that there should as many Free Universities as there are not free Universities in Ukraine, the Free University in Munich was not enough. The Decree was pronounced to establish Free Universities parallel to those that were in Ukraine. There was also a diploma sample and some people were awarded various doctoral degrees. At the farewell party for Marples that was in the house of Bohdan Krawchenko the collection of Beztaktnist, bound in yellow binder (yellow colour symbolizing yellow journalism), was awarded to Marples to the loud applause by Krawchenko dressed in his Oxford gown.