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The collection consists of field materials collected by Roman Brytan while taking Ukrainian Folklore courses at the University of Alberta. It covers the following topics: Ukrainian folk songs both from Ukraine and Canada, ritual songs, and superstitious recollections.

The collection consists of Ukrainian proverbs, jokes and comic tales collected in Alberta for Ukrainian Folklore courses taken by Roman at the University of Alberta.

Part 1: Became a member of Ridna Shkola and Prosvita; UNO; meeting with Kokhan in 1948 in Thunder Bay; Koordynatsiinyi Ukrains’kyi Komitet, Natsional’na Rada; CUC; Klish (??); Roshko (??); Petro Basiuk (??); Fr. Izhyk (??); Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy - Sosnovs’kyi (??), Rakhmannyi (??); Homin Ukrainy; Malashchuk (??) came from Europe; Froliak (??) came from England, he was born in Canada but his family sent him to a gymnasium in Stanislaviv, then joined the Canadian Army; Marunchak; Bezkhlibnyk (??); Banderivtsi vs Mel’nykivtsi in Winnipeg; Fond dopomohy and Mrs. Mandryka; Zahariichuk, Dats’kiv; Hlynka created Fond dopomohy; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO; future of Ukrainians in Canada; cursing Petliura, a prayer.

Part 1: His parents came to Saskatoon from Halychyna (Sushna village) in 1911; parafiia Sv. Yuriia in Saskatoon; Joseph was born on May 5, 1921; he has 2 elder sisters, 2 younger brothers; Joseph finished 8 grades of Ukrainian school; Strilets’ka hromada and UNO in Saskatoon; Pohoretskyi (??); Hryhorovych; Kosar; Bohdan Zelenyi; Dr. Pavliuchenko; his parents joined UNO; Molodi ukrains’ki natsionalisty; Joseph was a pilot of the Air Force during WWII; BUC, SUS; General Kurmanovych (??); Mohyla Institute; working in Novyi Shliakh; Pohorets’kyi (??); Fr. Blazhenko (??); Fr. Yuzyk; Koshyts’; Dr. Matsenko (??); Magera (??); Kapustians’kyi (??); Semen Savchuk; UCSA.

Part 2: Poles and Ukrainians; Ukrainian school - teachers Pryima (??), Kuz’ma (??); Communists in Saskatoon; Karpats’ka Ukraina cause, Komitet dopomohy Karpats’kii Ukraini; Kosar; in 1940 he joined Canadian Air Force; Air Force school in Oshawa; he finished High School and engineering in Saskatoon; stationing with Air Force in Toronto, St. Thomas, Trenton, Vancouver, and others; he went to England in 1943; his military cruises during the WWII; Paul Yuzva (??) from a farm joined the Air Force; Paul Andriichuk (??); Nahnybida; DPs; Bishop Buchko (??); banderivtsi vs mel’nykivtsi; Peter Smelskyi (??).

Part 3: A split between Ukrainians; CUC; Tracy Phillips; Peter Smelskyi (??); Panchuk; DP camps; Prof. Rudnyts’kyi; repatriation from DP camps; Kapusta (??); Kravchuk; Romanow’s wife was also stationed in London; he came back to Canada in 1946; Ukrainian organized life after WWII; UNO; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; support for mel’nykivtsi; Sichovi stril’tsi.

Part 4: Mr. Zelenyi; UCVA; Paul Yuzva (??); Mohyla Institute; Tony Lazarovych (??); Dr. K; Polyshchak (??); Polish Air Force; 1951-1955 he was in headquarters in Ottawa, then went to England; came back in 1957; Zarkovskyi (??); a specially designed airplane, technology advancements; retiring from Air Force in 1973; Ukrainian Engineers Society; multiculturalism policy.

Part 1:She came to Canada, Saskatoon in March 1911 from a Ukrainian village Susny (??); got off the ship in St. John, then went to Winnipeg, worked in Winnipeg in the “Corona” Hotel; then went to Saskatoon and worked in a restaurant; she went to Denmark first, worked there at a farm; when she came to Canada she was 21; WWI, discrimination against Ukrainians in Canada, internment; Russians in her village - a song she sang to them; Myroslav Sichyns’kyi; her husband, Dmytro Romanow, was from the same village but they married in Saskatoon; Bishop Budka’s visit; Orthodox church; Svystun; arrest of Bishop Budka; Ievhen Andrukhovych; Bishop visiting her house 3 times; Ukrainian life in Saskatoon from 1911 on, Narodnyi dim; Vasyl’ Semuk (??); Vasyl’ Svystun; Ukrainian identity; internment of Ukrainians during WWI; Bishop Budka.

Part 2: Bishop Budka; Mohyla Institute; Vasyl’ Svystun; the Stechyshyns brothers; Orthodox Church in Canada; Strilets’ka hromada; OUN; working for Red Cross during WWII; Narodnyi dim; Kosar; Dr. Pavliuchenko; Konovalets’ in Canada; General Sikevych (??); Danylo Skoropads’kyi; BUC; Samostiinyky, Fr. Samchuk; Karpats’ko Ukraina; CUC, Prof. Simpson, Dr. Pavliuchenko; DPs.

1. Brief Submitted to The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism by the Ukrainian Canadian Committee Edmonton Branch. Edmonton, Alberta, July, 1964.

2. Brief Submitted the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism by the Ukrainian Canadian Veterans' Association. Winnipeg, Manitoba; Montreal, Quebec. 1964.

3. Brief to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism presented by the Ukrainian Canadian Committee Vancouver Branch. Vancouver, British Columbia, 1964.

4. Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism: Book IV. The Cultural Contribution of the Other Ethnic Groups. Distribution : Department of the Secretary of State.

5. Report on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. Volume IV : Section on Education.

6. The letter from Ukrainian Canadian Veterans' Association to "Ukrainian News'' (Edmonton). March 20, 1965. Regarding the "Brief" to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism by Ukrainian Canadian Veterans' Association. (Ukrainian language)

7. Brief to The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism presented by the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, Winnipeg Branch, 1964

8. Brief presented to The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism by the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, August, 1964

9. Brief to The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism presented by the Ukrainian Catholic Brotherhood. Winnipeg, Manitoba

Contains a public Meeting announcement: 1990.

Photographs with newspaper clippings and texts of early 20th century rural buildings in Western Canada

Part 1: Nee - Hryhoriak; born on May 8, 1920 in Timmins; her mother came in 1910, father came in 1909 from Bukovyna; Orthodox; went to the public school; Ukrainian Hall; Ukrainian school; members of the Hall: Rushyns’kyi (??), Bulgera (??), Stydomyi (??), Tomiuk, Smuk, Blahyi (??); Labor Temple - parades when others were throwing eggs and dirt at them; Orthodox priests in Timmins - Fr. Zaproniuk (??), Oliynyk (??); Fr. Borys (??); Sikors’kyi (??), talks about Ukraine; Kosar’s visits; Hutai (??); Prosvita became a UNF branch in 194(?); Babins’kyi (??); Slotskyi (??); Vorkevych (??); Hulis (??); Masnyk (??); Zaporozhnyi (??); Olga Baserbova (??); Saturday night parties; Ridna shkola teachers - Seretiuk (??), Hladysh (??), Albina was also a teacher there; discrimination against Ukrainians; UNO; MUN; WWII, goldwatch for Hitler; pro-German sentiments; Myndiuk (??); Ternovyi (??); Danyliuk (??); Albina was a President of the MUN branch for 12 years; Pavlo Yuzyk; Stodol’nyi (??) - President of UNO; Richuk (??) - President of OUK; Pashchyn - President of UNO; WWII - Ukrainians joining Canadian Army, Panchuk; sending parcels to soldiers; Legion; Stodol’nyi was a member of the Legion; Kostets’kyi.

Part 2: Albina organized entertainment at UNO; no Orthodox church at Timmins; Rossokha (??); her family sheltered coming priests and Sisters; DPs; Orthodox church was built in 1954-56; Fr. Horoshko; Albina adopted a Chinese boy; religious education at Ukrainian schools; Mrs. Mykhalchyshyn (??); Ukrainians started moving out of Timmins in late 1960s; selling the Hall in the late 1970s; Timmins Ukrainian museum; Communists; organizing a Ukrainian Committee in Timmins; her husband is Ivan Rypalowski; Albina introduced Easter Egg decoration for every nation in Timmins; Albina worked at the Ukrainian radio station.