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A collection of jokes and comic tales collected from various informants in northern Alberta for the UKR-499 course.
Interviewees: Kost' Kuz'mak, Kost' Mykhailovych Telychko, Mykhailo Vasyliv, Orest Bohonos, pani M. Chornohuz, Ol'ha Lisova, Dmytro Petriw.

"The Ukrainian Canadian Wedding" discuses studies of 20th century wedding practices of Ukrainian Canadians based on interviews.

A collection of texts of songs, proverbs and customs collected from informants in Alberta for the course Ukrainian Folklore 499. Includes text of a religious letter from Father Kuban. Copies of work that describe love and kozak songs are also included.

"Study on Ukrainian immigrant tombstones" discusses the ritual of building tombstones for the dead with a focus on the tombstones of the first generation of Ukrainian immigrants.

This file contains early materials collected by Rena Hanchuk for her Folklore classes and a final paper. The project defines the wax ceremony as practiced in Canada. Within the written work, Rena compares and contrasts the definition of a wax ceremony through the taped interviews. The 15-page essay "A study on the Wax Ceremony as folk medicine" was done for the course Ukrainian 699.