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CA BMUFA 0022-1998.023.z015 · Item · 1996
Part of Poster collection

Poster advertising for a dance workshop in Ukraine. Workshop to take place July 1-29, 1996. Workshop offered by the Alberta Ukrainian Dance Association and the Institute of Ukrainian Folk Dance.

Supynyk, George
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c185 · Item · 4 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Real name was Supyniuk; born on September 13, 1895 in Bukovyna; he is Orthodox; his brother was by that time already in Canada; upon arrival he settled in Regina and on August 1, 1913 started working; Prosvita was founded in 1920; literary nights; WWI - internment of Ukrainians; he went to Medicine Hat; working for farmers, working on CPR in Regina; Lapchuk; Narodnyi Dim - the original one; Communists harming them; George was a Head of the Prosvita and played tsymbaly; Petro Demchuk (??); Orthodox Church; Svystun; UNO; Het’mantsi were not present in Regina; Strilets’ka hromada.

Part 2: Strilets’ka hromada; immigrants after WWI; his wife - Anna Zavaliuk (??) born in Canora in 1906; her parents came to Canada in 1903; Ukrainian life and education; WWI, internment of Ukrainians; she moved to Regina in 1921 after marrying George; weekly plays; Svystun organizing people and raising money.

Svarich, Petro
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c160-163 · Item
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Petro Lazarovych (?); choir, soloists; speeches (toasts) during some event dedicated to Svarich; singing Ukrainian songs; Instytut Sv. Ivana in Vegreville (?); Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Svarich was a secretary of several schools.

Part 2: Speeches during an event dedicated to Svarich; Svarich helping DPs; Mnohaia lita song.

Part 3: 1895 - World Exposition in Lviv; Svarich was delegated there as a schoolboy; plays; getting lost in Lviv; Kostiushko and revolution; Ivan Mateiko painted the revolution;Rudolf; was elected a candidate from a radical party (?); serving in an army; 1896 - his Birthday celebration; songs singing; reading memoirs of Zvarich.

Part 4: Svarich about learning English; childhood, school, desire to study; gymnasium.

Part 5: Posmertna promova Zvarycha after his funeral in Narodnyi Dim
Sections of incomprehensible sound starting from 3.02 through 8.55, further through 12.30 and till the end.

Part 6: Singing songs (“Dyvlius’ ia na nebo” and others) with a piano accompaniment - those are the songs that Petro Zvarich recorded at the Conservatory of Prof. Berezenets’. These songs will be performed on February 14 in Victoria (?) by the Society SUMC (?) by Victoria Meletiuk (?) and Morris Lourier (??). Victoria was chosen as a Queen of SUMC in Winnipeg in 1963. She is a known violinist (?), piano-player and dancer. She is currently a student at the Arts Department, at St. John’s Institute. Morri Lourier (?) speaks only French and English but ings Ukrainian songs; he is a conductor of the French choir but takes part in Ukrainian concerts. Songs: “Dumka”, “I sad zatsviv”, “Vladyko neba i zemli”. Songs from the opera “The May Night”; a speech of Ivan Baran.

Part 7: A recording of a Concert; Svarich came to Canada in 1900 from Halychyna; Petro Ostyniuk (??) sings a song in English and Ukrainian; Svarich about his mother’s artistic talents; she wants him to be a priest; he was conscripted in the army and came back in 1899; they went to Canada; in 1903 Basilians settled next to them, and his mother helped them; in 1913 went to visit the youngest daughter they left in the Old Country; in 1915 sold their farm and moved to Edmonton; in 1919 his father died and his mother died in 1935; in 1918, when Ukrainian Orthodox Church was founded in Canada, Svarich and his relatives joined it but his mother preferred to remain Catholic so that she could be buried together with her husband; conflict between his mother and a Catholic priest; mother’s cancer; leaving money for churches; mother’s death and funeral.

Sviato Kupala
CA BMUFA 0126-1 · File · 1980
Part of Ksenia Dackiw ethnographic collection

A description of the midsummer customs of the holiday Kupalo with transcription of songs collected from various informants with musical scales for the course Ukrainian 499.

Symbol, sign, allegory
CA BMUFA 0033-7-1993.012 · Item · 1993
Part of Brian Cherwick ethnographic collection

"Symbol, sign, allegory - Theoretical considerations - Printed summaries and inventories of symbols" discusses semiotics and its application to folklore. Includes bibliography.