This item is a recording of an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Fenske, recorded February 13, 1982. Mrs. Fenske discusses how a whole community came to Canada by boat because of the Depression and were pressed to join the Orthodox Russian Church, but did not want to. The church was the centre of all activities with service three times per day. They used the German language at home, and their parents went to German school back in Russia. Mr. Fenske's father came to Canada alone in 1893, Mr. Fenske was born in 1902.
Sans titreThis item contains an interviews with Mrs. Lydia Kupsch (nee. Rosnal), a German Russian who was born in Volynia in 1896 before immigrating to Canada in 1902. She talks of life in Russia and then life in Stoney Plain and Bruderheim. She also discusses her husband and her wedding. For part of the interview, there is an older interview being played while people are talking over it.
Sans titreThis item is an interview with Rob Androschuk and an unknown female. Mr. Androschuk discusses being an officer in the Russian Army and what it was like living during this time period. The unidentified female also talks about living through WWI.
Sans titreThis collection includes essays on Ukrainian customs in Canada, korovai as a folk art, and the Ukrainian Museum of Canada. Also included is an article review.
Sans titreProgram announcements, brochures describing courses, archives and cultural events, circa 1982
Sans titreA critique of the book by R.B. Klymasz "Folklore politics in the Soviet Ukraine"
Sans titreA comparison of the funeral traditions presented in Kotsiubynsky’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and Klymasz’s Funerary rhetoric among Ukrainians in western Canada
Sans titreassignment for UKR 451
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