Part 1: Born on March 1, 1891 in the village of Horodytsia Vasylians’ka (??), story of the village and its name; family came to Canada in 1912 (from Antwerp to Halifax to Hamilton); came to Espanola in 1916; Ukrainian Church; Petro Zena (??); Maslosoiuz; Serafyntsi, Vasyl’ Bachyns’kyi; Vasyl’ Homyniuk came and built a Hall; Palamaruk; Prosvita; Ukrainian school (William’s wife was a teacher), a choir; UNO; Humeniuk went to Windsor.
Part 2: Working at the paper factory; 1930-1944 - difficult times; subscribing to Novyi shliakh; Halushchak, Ostrovs’ki; Syroid is Catholic; DPs after WWII - Ivan Kozachenko; death of Syroid’s brother; newspaper Zhinocha dolia; Zhinocha volia; Ukrains’kyi Narodnyi Soiuz - Svoboda.