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The series contains founding documents and information about the Dr. Wasyl and Parasia Iwanec (Krysa) Endowment Fund.

This series contains files relevant to the membership and operations of the UCBC Alberta Provincial Branch.
Please note that "Edmonton Eparchy" was more often used in organizational files that might refer to the Alberta Branch, see Series 2.7 and the subseries within for more materials.

This series contains files that are relevant to the membership and operations of the UCBC Toronto Eparchial branch

The series comprises family photographs (and negatives) from different periods of their life.

The series contains working papers pertaining to the founding and development of the Kalyna Country project including Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Trust Society, Kalyna Country Destination Marketing organization, and other constitutive parts of the project. These documents include (but are not limited to):

• grant applications,
• meeting minutes,
• bylaws,
• development strategies,
• action plans,
• budgets,
• receipts of money transfers,
• variety of reports,
• certificate about changes of the objectives,
• lists of board directors, executive officers, and other members of the administration,
• extensive correspondence,
• materials of conference meetings,
• clippings of newspaper publications about Kalyna Country project,
• a brief history of the organization,
• biographies of prominent people, writers, politicians, and artists, born in the territories constituting the Kalyna Country Ecomuseum: Michael Gowda, Illia Kiriak, Kupchenko family, Kostash family, Joseph Yasenchuk, William Kurylek, Michael Luchkovich among others,
• set of visitor's and events guides and booklets.

There are also several folders organized by the creator containing the following documents:

• "An Alphabetical Concordance to the Central and East European Place Names in the Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Area"
• Native peoples (Cree)
• Fur trade posts and Missions
• "Centennial Landscaping and Highway beautification project east Yellowhead Highway Corridor," a brief prepared by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Alberta Provincial Council
• Building condition report, Ukrainian Church, Smoky Lake, Alberta. Prepared for the Facilities Management Division.

The series contains academic articles and popular publications about technique, history and designs of Ukrainian Easter eggs paining and Easter bread; publications about prominent Easter eggs painters; photographs of painted eggs from variety of the Ukrainian regions; a collection of postal stamps featuring painted eggs. A copy of the "Основні елементи орнаментації українcьких писанок та їхнє походження" (Прага 1925) monograph by В. Щербаківський and other publications is a part of the collection.

The series consists of documents related to Shandro Museum activities including annual financial reports, list of executive, bylaws, renaming documents, certificate of incorporation, agreement with other organizations (Alberta Museum Association), and dissolution documents.

The series consists of materials (texts and photographs) concerning Ukrainian folk costumes, including images of white wedding dresses decorated with traditional embroidery. It also comprises photographs and negatives of embroidered table-clothes, serviettes, as well as an exhibit traditional pottery.
It also includes the "Hova khata" journal (#3-1937) and a typewritten manuscript entitled "Museum of Folk Culture: a lecture about the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in the Ukrainian SSR" by S. Smolinsky and L. Orel (1990).

This series includes publications on various topics of Ukrainian studies and Folklore studies. Many of them are copies of publications that are very hard to obtain in libraries, rare editions, or those essential for Bohdan Medwidsky's teaching and research.

Christmas postcards and an richly illustrated publication about the Ukrainian traditional Christmas celebration.

This series contains materials related to Dr Medwidsky's involvement with various organizations throughout his life and career. Included are documents relating the Ukrainian Catholic organizations, Ukrainian Scouts organization Plast activities and reports, advocacy for Ukrainian bilingual education in Alberta, Ukrainian community organizations and events, as well as non-Ukrainian ethnic organizations. The series consists of journals, reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, and promotional materials.

Series consists of textual records that were donated by Lida Lahola in 2023 and they have a structure separate from the series 1-6. It includes Lahola’s identifications, business cards and Certificates and Awards honouring Ivan Lahola. Letters and documents related to the World League of Ukrainian political prisoners; poems and memories of Ukrainians; personal letters, memories, poems and biographies of Ivan Lahola; documentation related to the Holocaust survivors; the Alberta Legislature Sessions Reports; documentation related to Ivan Lahola’s home region; Ukrainian newspaper articles; Ivan Lahola’s work on the compensation for German forced slave labour and political prisoners in concentration camps.

The series contains biographical materials and information concerning Dr Medwisky's early life, education, and academic career. Materials include his personal correspondence, church and religious activities, philanthropic activities, investments, personal documents, and professional documents.

Certificates and appreciation letters given to Doris Yanda, as well as greetings to her 75th and 100th birthdays.

This series contains research materials and publications relating to Dr. Medwidsky's interests in Ukrainian language, history and culture. Such materials include drafts and finished articles, documentation for his research projects, materials from and about conferences, and materials relating to his dissertation.

This series contains files relevant to the membership and operations of the UCBC Winnipeg Eparchial Branch.
Materials in this series span (1952, 1977 - 1980, 1986, 1992)

This series consists of records pertaining the first Ukrainian Folklore course offerings at the University of Albert, as well as the establishment of the Ukrainian Folklore master and PhD degrees. It also includes documents related to establishing several endowments in support of the Ukrainian Folklore Studies: the Huculak Chair Endowment, the Kule Chair Endowment, the Ukrainian Folklore Archives Endowment, the Ivan Franko Ukrainian Scholarship, and others.

Bohdan Medwidsky was active in the Canadian Association of Slavists as well as maintained professional relationships with many scholars from Ukraine, and Ukrainianists from other parts of the world, for example, with Mykola Mysinka in Slovakia. The series consists of letters, invitations, reports, project documentation and other records related to Ukrainian and Slavic studies beyond the University of Alberta.

The series consists of records related to teaching Ukrainian language, culture and folklore, and includes course outlines, assignment and test designs, reading lists, correspondence with students, fieldwork projects, and other records starting from early course offerings in the end of 1970s, and until early 2000s. The courses covered are: Ukrainian Folk Song, Ukrainian Folk Prose, Ukrainian Calendar Customs, Rites of Passage, Folk Bilief, Material Culture, and Early Ukrainian Canadian Culture. There are also materials related to graduate students, master and PhD, whom Dr. Medwidsky supervised, and to their theses and dissertations.