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Stratychuk, Roman Mr.&Mrs.
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c184 · Item · 22 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Was born in what today is Canora, SK, on July 2, 1902; his parents came to Canada in 1900 from the Borshchiv povit, village of Pylypche (??); they were Greek-Catholic, but Roman converted to Orthodoxy; finished School in 1915; internment of Ukrainians during WWI; Orthodoxy; SUS creation; Strilets’ka hromada; Ukrainian Communists; Het’mantsi; UNO; DPs; WWI internment; Ukrainian school; Orthodox theatre group; Dukhobory; Roman went to USA; reciting humoresky.

Stodolny, William
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c172 · Item · 28 Jul. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Halychyna, near Drohobych, village Dolytsia (??) on March 22, 1899; his wife is Pavlina Khomiy (??); he came to Canada on July 12, 1925 (from Gdansk); finished the village school; he was in Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; first came to Quebec, then to Canora; moving to Ontario; Prosvita in Canora; Communists in Canora; building a Catholic church - burned down; moving to Atikokan, Ontario in 1927; Socialists; Bishop Budka; community converting to Orthodoxy in 1934; Seretiuk; SUS; UNO, Charyk (??) in 1938; Strilets’ka hromada; Karpats’ka Ukraina.

Part 2: Prosvita hall; CUC creation; mel’nykivtsi vs banderivtsi; DPs; UPA; Volodymyr Kosar; Novyi shliakh, Farmar journal; Surma.

Steciuk, Peter
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c183 · Item · 22 Feb. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on January 15, 1905 in ???? (cannot understand), Catholic; came to Canada in 1927 (from Gdansk to Halifax), moved to Winnipeg; married in 1929 (??), his wife is Mariia Mariska (??); after 3 months in Winnipeg went to Toronto; Fr. Semotiuk at the Katedra Sv. Yosafata; Het’mantsi, Het’man Mykhailo; Danylo Skoropads’kyi; UNO; changing church services to English; Fr. Tataryn; Fr. Riadkevych (??); Orthodox community; Communists; orchestra; Pacification; Konovalets’ assassination; women’s section; theater groups; Mykhailo Mostovyi - choir; discrimination against Ukrainians; WWII, American help, Ukrainians supporting Germany; Communist Hall was confiscated in 1939 and UNO bought it; Tovarystvo Prosvita; church life during WWII; CUC; DPs.

Part 2: DPs; Fr. Felevych (??); Fr. Bosyi (??); Het’mantsi; UNO members; the school near Katedra; church burned down; priest’s house built after WWII; Fr. Olenchuk; Fr. Berko (??)

Solomon, John R.
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c179-180 · Item · 30 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on April 30, 1910 in Zoria, Manitoba; he is Orthodox but was born to a Catholic family; his father Roman came from Sapohiv (??), Borshchiv povit; his mother Anna Drozdovych was from Krivcha village, Borshchiv povit; Ivano-Frankivs’k oblast; his parents came to Canada in 1902 and settled in Zoria (10 miles to the North of Dauphin, MB); Solomon finished a Public School “Halych” in the area; Ukrainian was taught every day at the school after 4pm; he had 2 brothers and a sister (she died young); his father was a farmer, he belonged to Narodovtsi movement; his father converted to Orthodoxy in 1918; a church was built in 1920 on the farms; Bishop Budka’s visit to Canada; Fr. Savchuk organized their parish; Fr. Leshchyshyn (??); Berlins’kyi (??); after 8 grades of School he went to High School in Dauphin; there was a Ukrainian Student Club in Narodnyi Dim, Vasyl’ Sklepovych, choir; in 1919 Solomon went to Winnipeg to attend a University to study law; working at a lawyers firm in Dauphin; Svystun the Rector; Ukrainian Self-Reliance Ligue; Farley (??); the Stechyshyns; Bur’ianyk (??); Slidchenko (??); SUS creation; UNO; General Kapustians’kyi (??); converting into Orthodoxy; BUC creation.

Part 2: BUC creation; Svystunivs’ka tserkva; Het’mantsi; Solomon became a lawyer and opened his own company in Selkirk, Manitoba in 1935; Panchuk; Ukrainian Communists in Winnipeg; Solomon moved to Winnipeg in 1941; WWII, confiscation of the Communists properties; UNO; CUC creation, Tracy Phillips’ role; Viktoria Kolessa (??), wife of Phillips; Dr. Kysylevs’kyi (??); Kushnir; Vladyka Vasyliy (??); Kushnir had a support of Samostiinyky; BUC; Solomon was a member of the Liberal Party in Emerson Constituency for 16 years, Ukrainian section of the Emerson Constituency, Ukrainian mentality.

Part 3: Ukrainian mentality; Polish Army Division with a considerable number of Ukrainians; Soloviy (??); Arsenych; Volodymyr Kokhan (??) - Fr. Kushnir brought him to be a director of CUC; Ms. Mandryka; Ukrainian-Canadian efforts and refugees; UN Relief Organization’s meeting in Montreal; Stanley Froliak (??); creation of UCVA; Panchuk; John Karasevych (??); a meeting the Senate regarding the Committee of Immigration, Minister of Immigration, John Glen (??); allowing Diviziia Halychyna into Canada; Vasylyshyn as the Heads of the Relief Fund; Kosar and CUC; Prof. Pavliuchenko; Dmytro Andrievs’kyi.

Part 4: Impact of refugees on Ukrainian life in Canada; UNO vs Liha; a trip of Solomon and Kushnir to the United Nations in San Francisco; Prof. Ganovskyi (??), Shumeiko, Katamai (??) - representatives from American UCC; Fr. Kushnir; Palamarchuk (??), Bodnarchuk (??), Korneichuk (??) - representatives of Ukraine; Fr. Kushnir; Fr. Savchuk; Fr. Semchuk; Anthony Hlynka.

Smylski, Peter
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c175-178 · Item · 17 Dec. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on April 1, 1915 near Dauphin, Manitoba; his wife is Odarka Buhais’ka (??) born in Cobalt, Ontario; they have 4 children; Peter went to a Public school on farms, went to University of Manitoba, then took dentistry in Edmonton, graduated in 1940; now are Orthodox but came from Halychyna as Ukrainian Catholics; Peter went to a summer Ukrainian school in Keld (Haliovs’kyi - teacher, Barkovych, a student of Avramenko); growing in the Ukrainian area of Kosiv near Dauphin; buying a farm for $1200; Prosvita Hall; Arsenych the teacher at a school in the Kosiv school; Orthodox vs Catholics; Ukrains’kyi holos; Bishop Budka’s letter in 1914; Vasyl Svystun, Myroslav Stechyshyn, Kubryk; Orthodox church in Canada was more political than religious; French and Belgium becoming priests for Ukrainian churches; Ukrainian Communists; Danylo Skoropadskyi’s visit to Dauphin; Smilsky stayed at the Hrushevskyi Institute; Dmytro Mel’nyk, Danylo Kobyl’nyk, Faryna - his Institute friends; John Decore organized a Students Club (about 11 members), polkovnyk Sushko came once at the meeting; Samostiinyky; UNO; activities of the Student Club, pani Mykhailenko; Volodymyr Kupchenko.

Part 2: Meeting Doroshenko; spending summer on a farm; UNO; Pacification in Halychyna; newspapers on Holodomor; assassinations of Petliura and Konovalets’; pro-German sentiment before WWII; DPs; he sat a practice in Hamilton; Ivan Pylypiuk; Ukrainian Orthodox group in Hamilton, Zavadovskyi (??); Fedorkiv; Fodchuk; WWII, Anthony Hlynka, Ukrains’kyi holos; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Fr. Voloshyn; he went overseas, to Amsterdam; Dr. Kapusta, Dr. Ruthyk (??); Panchuk; Ann Khraplyva; Helen Koziy (??); Fr. Horoshko.

Part 3: Panchuk and a choir; UCSA; Fr. Horoshko; Helen Koziy (??); CUC; Tracy Phillips; Ukrainian Information Bureau; Steven Davydovych; Dr. K; discrimination against Ukrainians during WWII; 1944 - the Jump (??), Panchuk; Ukrainians at the Polish Forces; DP camps; Bishop Buchko; Mykola Lebid’; Danylo Skoropads’kyi.

Part 4: A split inside the Nationalists camp; Mykola Lebid’; Mel’nyk; Danylo Skoropadskyi’s visit to UCSA; Lady Hill; Bishop Buchko; Panchuk, Tracy Phillips taking action against shipping DPs back to the USSR; MP Michael Foot (??); UN first assembly in 1945, attended it with a press pass; Mykola Bazhan representing USSR; Hector McNeal (??); speeches about DPs; Panchuk; Steve Davydovych, Froliak; Mrs. Roosevelt’s speech; Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau’s name.

Part 5: UNO split; Prosvita; Canadian Legion Branch; Bozhok from UNO; Steven Pawluk (??); CUC in Hamilton; Povoroznyk (??); he came back to Canada in 1947 and went to school in Toronto, change in Ukrainian community in Canada; Orthodox and Catholics; DPs in Canada; Ukrainian Canadian Veteran Association; John Karasevych (??); Dr. K. suggested the name of “Olive Branch”; a branch of veterans in Hamilton, membership; Yaremovych (??)

Part 6: Karasevych; Yaremovych (??); John Yuzyk; Kosar came to Hamilton of behalf of CUC shortly after WWII; Bishop Borets’kyi (??); Ukrainian Communists in Hamilton; SUS, its branches and Congresses; changing the name of the Hrushevskyi Institute; oral surgery in Canada; Dr. Diamond; Ivan Homeniuk, Peter Homeniuk, Ryshchak (??); Klymashko (??); Panchuk; Smilsky became a Chairman of the board of directors of the Institute in Toronto in 1963; Oryshchak (??); Steve Davydovych; Kyrylyk (??) - cultural director; General Hryhorenko; Hrabovskyi (??); Hryhoriak (??)

Part 7: Students Club at the UofToronto (Burshtyns’kyi and Smilsky supported it); perogy eating contest reminding about the spaghetti eating contest; teachers of Ukrainian and Hamilton area; Stechyshyn (??); Smilsky losing money for the University Program to exist in 1963; Metropolitan Illarion’s visit.

Smith, Ann (Crapleve)
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c173-174 · Item · 29 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Khraplyva; born on December 24, 1912 in Ladywood (Manitoba); her parents came to Canada in 1898, stayed for 2 years, and then returned to Halychyna because her father’s mother had died; they the whole family came back to Canada in 1901; family was Orthodox in the old country but she was baptized in Ukrainian Catholic church in Canada; during WWII went overseas (November 1943), Ukrainian Canadian Services Association, Panchuk; she became the first Treasurer; the building was rented (it was an Anglican Church); living in barracks; Helen Kozicky; she came to Canada in March 1946, stationed in Ottawa and came to Winnipeg to be discharged in September 1946, and then went back overseas with a group in October 1946; Ukrainian Canadian Relief Mission = Ukrainian Canadian Mission for Ukrainian Victims of War; Froliak; Urbanovych (??); Captain Davydovych (??); UCSA closed in December 31, 1945 and CURB (??) started on January 1, 1946; Gordon (??); Korostovych (??); Skoropadskyi; CUC; Horoshko; Mrs. Mandryka; Froliak playing politics (Banderivtsi); George Kliuchevskyi (??); Mrs. Kowalsky (??); being in British zone of occupation.

Part 2: Being in American zone of occupation; Kushnir; Panchuk left in December 1947; DPs, DP representative, Relief Fund; coming back to Canada in 1947, giving lectures with Panchuk; League of Nations; Gordon; DPs; German transit camp; SUP (??)

Part 3: Panchuk and Yeremovych (??); Liquidation Commission; Korostovych (??); the Vasylyshyns; Andriyevskyi (??); secret instruction from Canada regarding Ukrainians; Gordon; SUP annual meeting; CPUE; Smith was a Director of the Canadian Ukrainian relief fund, Vasylyshyn succeeded her; Dorothy Yanda (??); she came back in 1952 and Relief Fund was finished; her husband was George Colder (??); became a Supervisor of Canadian pensions.

Shulha, Paul
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c234-236 · Item · 30 Sep. 1983 - 5 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on September 29, 1901 in a town of Hlyzan’ (??) near Lviv; his wife is Olga Shulha (nee - Kashuba); attended a gymnasium in Lviv, interrupted by WWI; in 1914, Russian Army came, in 1915, Austrian Army returned; Paul was the eldest child; shkola kylymars’kykh vyrobiv in his town; in 1918, his father returned from the Italian front; Paul was studying in a Teachers Seminary; he was drafted into the Polish Army, telegraph school; military life; Halyts’ka armiia; fighting in Odessa; makhnivtsi; Tiutiunnyk; his army heading to Kyiv; being in a hospital with typhos; back to his regiment; Bessarabia; Red Army, internment in Proskuriv; returning home; came to Canada in March of 1927 (Gdansk - South Hampshire - St. Johns, NB).

Part 2: Paul came to Winnipeg; teaching at a Ridna shkola at Ivan Franko settlement; Transcona and its inhabitants; Het’mantsi; antagonism between Ukrainians in Canada; teaching to play musical instruments; moving to Regina in the 1930s; Ukrains’kyi narodnyi dim in Regina; Vasyl’ Veselovs’kyi (??); Paul teaching at the Narodnyi dim im. Shashkevycha; Strilets’ka hromada; womens section of the Strilets’ka hromada; publishing Robintsychi visti; brass orchestra; Shatul’s’kyi (??); Myrnam.

Part 3: Used to make musical instruments. Learned in the Old Country from his uncle. He was part of the music band there, and played violin. (They also played “Svatannia na Honcharivtsi”). He wanted his uncle to tune the violin, and he agreed if Paul would help him build instruments. He left Myrnam in 1931, went to Saskatoon; Babiy (??); Vasyl Hoitai (??); Fr. Savchuk; a trip on farm to distribute Novyi shliakh; Paul was a member of the Strilets’ka hromada; organizing UNO in Saskatoon; Kosar; Hryhorovych - the 1st Head of UNO; Bishop Makariy (??); Hryhorovych; Slipchenko (??); Communists in Saskatchewan were the strongest; Bozhok; Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Pohorets’kyi as the Editor of Novyi shliakh; Ukrainian community in Kenora.

Part 4: Denis Metel’s’kyi (??) organized a brass orchestra; Pashchyn (??); organizing concerts in 1931 in Sudbury; his orchestra was called “banda”; Prof. Bobers’kyi (??); Het’mantsi; concert at the UNO Congress; WWII, German sentiments at UNO; Fr. Jean (??); Sheptyts’kyi; after the end of WWII Paul returned to Kirkland Lake; Ridna shkola - Matviichuk’s textbooks.

Shulha, Olha
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c233 · Item · 12 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Kashuba; she is Orthodox, born on December 16, 1911 in Holobychok of Borshchiv povit; she came to Canada in 1924; her mother died when she was little, and her father was in the Austrian army but ran away to Canada in 1914; she came from Warsaw - Liverpool - Montreal, then to Mikado, SK; she attended school; her father opened a general store and remarried; Depression; Ukrainian area and school; assassination of Petliura; okolytsia Mazepa; she converted to Orthodoxy after priest’s words about Kyiv; Narodnyi dim in Mikado; she left Mikado in 1941; Latynnyky in Halychyna; holod in Ukraine 1933; her father subscribed Novyi shliakh; General Kapustians’kyi; Kurmanovych; concerts in Narodnyi dim; Remenda (??) family, Froliak (??) family.

Part 2: WWII - German sentiments; Ukrainians in the Canadian Army; Olha moved to Toronto in 1941, married there and the family had a business; her husband was Kul’chyts’kyi; difference between Ukrainians in the West and East in Canada; UNO; Fr Samets’ (??); Cathedral building in Toronto; Hryhoriak (??); DPs; Olha’s husband Pavlo; religious antagonism; Institute of St. Volodymyr.

Shatulsky, Myron
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c170-171 · Item · 5 Apr. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Winnipeg in 1930; grew up in a Precher (??) area, spoke only Ukrainian at home; as a young boy became a member of the Junior Section of the Ukrainian Labor Temple; went to a Ukrainian school; the family subscribed Ukrainian newspapers; his father Matviy Shatulsky first went to England, then to the USA and then came to Canada in 1911, he was from the Tsarist Russia, was Orthodox; his mother came to Canada in 1922; his father died when Myron was quite young; his father was arrested in 1940 and kept in Escas (??); Semchyshyn was his school friend; confiscation of the Communist Hall; a division between Bolsheviks and Nationalists; CUC.

Part 2: The wife introduces herself. In 1946 his father went to visit Ukraine, in 1947 he went across western Canada reporting on what he saw. He himself was always politically conscious. He was watching his father who affected him greatly. His talk about boys he went to school with. Banderivtsi. DPs. SS Galicia. They taught Ukrainian school that included dancing, Ukrainian language. Cultural level of Ukrainian life in Canada. They taught young people full time dancing, choir, orchestra. It was a big interest in Ukrainian dance in 1953.

Part 3: Life and study in Soviet Ukraine: Oleksander Klymiuk (??); Viriovka; Ryl’s’koho Institute; Fakul’tet narodnykh instrumentiv; Patorzhyns;kyi; studying with Krachko and Zakarpats’kyi khor; Shatulsky came back from Soviet Ukraine in 1953; Svystun and “Svystunivs’ka tserkva”; John Kolasky; applying his received knowledge in Canada; the Famine issue.

Part 4: The Famine issue; defending the Soviet system; Ukrainian-Canadian culture; cultural exchanges.

Semkovich, Frederick
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c232 · Item · 26 May 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on May 4, 1922 in Ontario; his mother arrived to the USA in 1904-05, his father arrived to Canada in about that time from Ukraine; mother came to Winnipeg, was a cook on a railroad; his parents were from the same village in Ukraine; eventually they moved to Chatham, ON (??); they married in 1912; family was farming when Frederick was born; in 1927(1928?) parents started to go on a Windsor market; Frederick belonged to the Ukrainian Catholic Youth Group; in about 1950 his father built a Ukrainian church in Chatham; Luchak (??); difference between Ukrainians coming to Canada at different times; his mother’s nee was Shliakhtych; Frederick lived in Chatham till 19, then he went to operate a Farmers Country General Store; he married in 1947 - his wife is Anthonia Pakenack (??); from 1947 till 1952 the family was in dairy business; DPs in Chatham; he moved to Kingston in 1952 opening 5 service stations in the area; in 1962 he abundoned service station business and turned to hotel business; he has 2 sons and a daughter.

Part 2: Frederick brought Henninger brewery in Hamilton; his father built a hotel in Chatham; he has 6 other siblings; John Kit (??) the Deacon in Chatham.

Semeniuk, Olga
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c230-231 · Item · 21 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Levkovych; born on April 8, 1906 in a village of Potoches’ka (??), Horodenka povit; she had 2 brothers and 2 sisters; her father had a good church education; family was wealthy; her mother had brothers in Canada, they invited Olga, and she left in August 1928 (arrived to Halifax, then went to Saskatchewan, then to a mine near Sudbury), married Mykhailo Semeniuk in 1930; the family moved to Sudbury; Kostets’kyi invited them to Kirkland Lake in May 1931; Communist Hall; Leshchuk (??); Strilets’ka hromada; Fr. Kushchak (??); Fr. Savchuk; Samostiinyky; Stasiv (now a lawyer) was a teacher in High School.

Part 2: Fr. Kushchak building a Ukrainian church in 1932-1933; a conflict of the church belonging (??); UNO Hall; Strilets’ka hromada - Nesterovs’kyi (??), Holobets’; a chapel near the Hall; Fr. Smyk (??); Fr. Kaminets’kyi (??); Fr. Chorniy (??); orchestra organized by Stokolosa (??), Shul’ha (??); Samostiinyky; Fr. Borys (??); Fr. Lazar was the first teacher in the Hall; Ridna shkola; Vasyl Hul’tai (??); Ivan Ilchyshyn was a teacher; Fr. Lazar’s wife founded the Prosvita but did not have own Hall; Fr. Smyk came after WWII; Olga was at the drama club - plays by Ukrainians authors; voting for the Polish Sejm; elections at UNO; OUK - women’s organization; Ukrainian businessmen in Kirkland - Sorochan (??), Fedirchuk (??).

Part 3: March with flags; Fr. Borys; Fr. Oliynyk (??); news about Holodomor 1933; MUN, Masna (??); dance club - Shelestyns’kyi (??) was an instructor; Konovalets’ assassination; sending parcels to Ukraine; DPs taking over the Hall; Fr. Zvarych (??); Fr. Chaika (??); Fr. Smyk; DPs opening an Orthodox church, Fr. Horoshko; Fedirchuk; Ukrainians living Kirkland Lake at the end of 1940s; Pinkovs’kyi (??) organized MUN; UNO branch in Kirkland Lake, UNO Congress in 1949; Kosar; CUC creation; WWII - Communist Hall was confiscated in Kirkland Lake; Khmara (??); Olga is Greek-Catholic.

Part 4: Bazylevych (??); active Ukrainians in Kirkland Lake - Kul’chyts’kyi, Shul’ha, Nesterovs’kyi, Maksymovych; Kuryliv (??) from Sudbury; Ukrainian school; Hrytsyshyn (??).

Semchuk, Stephan
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c169 · Item · 3 Dec. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Lviv; came to Canada in 1928; Ukrainian Catholic; came to Canada on Bishop Budka’s invitation; his father worked at a post office; Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada and its relations with Catholics; BUC; UNO; Canada at the end of the 1920s; Konovalets’ visit; CUC creation; Prof. Simpson; SUS; Samostiynyky; DPs in Canada; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; future of Ukrainians in Canada.

Sawchuk, Semen
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c167-168 · Item · 5 Dec. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on February 14, 1895 in the village of Vil’kivtsi (??) of Borshchiv povit, Halychyna; his mother Varvara Hrubiy (??), his father was a tkach, was in Austrian army; Semen had 3 brothers and 1 half-sister; his father organized Tovarystvo tverezosti in his village and Tovarystvo dopomohy (?); mother decided to go to Canada because the family did not have enough land for 4 sons; the family left for Canada in 1899; came to Ukraine to visit in 1922 - “Mesionar” published warnings about him; came in 1899 to Winnipeg, then to a small colony “Franklin”, they bought a farm; Hans Valley had a school which Sawchuk went to, the teacher was Polish; first Ukrainian priest in their area was Fr. Dmytriv; Metropolitan Maxim (?); family moved to Saskatchewan in 1908 (a farm 40 miles from Yorkton); French priests served for Ukrainians trying to get rid of the Greek-Catholic Church; Sawchuk learned how to read Ukrainian himself; penname “Semen Matej”(??); Ukrains’kyi holos was started by the Ukrainian teachers (Fr. Vasyl’ Kudryk, Firney (??)); Bishop Budka and Kanadiis’kyi rusyn (later it became Kanadiis’kyi ukrainets’); 1908 - Sheptyckyi’s visit to Canada; “Taini pravyla” of the Catholic priests.

Part 2: Ukrains’kyi holos vs. Ukrains’kyi rusyn; 1916 - 1st Ukrainian Narodnyi Congress in Saskatoon; Bishop Budka; was studying at that time at the bursa (Mohyla Institute); Tovarystvo “Bursuk”; Sawchuk joined the Tovarystvo “Kameniari”; Sawchuk was the 1st Secretary of the Narodnyi Dim in Saskatoon; Julian Stechyshyn; Svystun, money scandal; Dr. Kushnir from BUC and his relations to Svystun; Fr. Mayevs’kyi (??); Archbishop Teodorovych; Metropolitan Lypkivs’kyi.

Part 3: Rada Ukrains’kykh Tserkov; CUC; Kosar on Ukrainian-Canadian Legions; Dr. Datskiv on CUC as Ukrainian government in exile; Tracy Phillips, Simpson and creation of CUC; Svystun; Fr. Kushnir about Svystun as a Catholic; Kosar as a person; SUS; Sawchuk in Ottawa in 1939; Sawchuk got a Lieutenant rank in 1921, during WWII became a Chaplain in 1942, Fr. Symchych as a Chaplain, Fr. Kovalyshyn; Fr. Horoshko; Helen Kozycky; Danylo Skoropads’kyi; coming back to Canada in 6 months; Ivan Teodorovych asked to get another Bishop, so Sawchuk went to Germany after WWII; bringing illegal money to Doroshenko from Samostiinyky; Metropolitan Polikarp; camp of Lysenka (fights between easterners and westerners); Panchuk; Froliak; Dopomohovyi fond in Canada, Kokhan.

Part 4: DPs’ influence on the Ukrainian life in Canada; Fr. Yizhyk, BUC; Pan American Ukrainian Conference in New York in 1946; Syrnyk; CUC supporting Ukrainska Natsionalna Rada and not UHV; Dr. Galan from USA; Vasylyshyn; change of the status of Ukrainians in Canada; future of Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada.

Sawchuk, Oryst
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c229 · Item · 7 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on February 23, 1928 in Winnipeg; his father came to Canada around the turn of the century, his father was a 15-year old teenager working in mines; his father’s brother died in a mine accident and is buried in the Copper Cliff (??); his mother arrived in 1913 from a village of Iaseniv, Ternopil region; his mother ran a boarding house for miners in Sudbury; Oryst went to school in Sudbury; Oryst’s father was a founding member of the WBA (Workers Benevolent Association) in Winnipeg; his mother was a member of the ULFTA since 1928; Ukrainian drama group in Winnipeg (Donkiv (??), Mary Kuzyk (??)); Shevchenko, Franko plays; Kobylians’ka; Karpish - teacher; Ukrainian school; discrimination against Ukrainians; John Boichuk; Youth section; Communist Hall was confiscated in favour of a Baptist church during WWII.

Part 2: WWII, Oryst went to the University of Manitoba - community planning; DPs; coming to Sudbury after the University; John Stefiura (??) - another Ukrainian architect in Sudbury; cultural exchange with Ukraine.

Sawchuk, Natasha
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c228 · Item · 7 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Slyva; born on August 25, 1934 in Sudbury, ON; her father was a gold miner, family lived in Beardmore (??), Geraldton (??), Windsor; graduated from the University of Windsor; her husband’s name is Orest; her mother came to Canada from around Ternopil’ in 1921, her father came in 1930 from Boikivshchyna; her father was a professional dancer and had a University degree; her parents married in 1933; father was a member of the Labor Temple; Natasha married in 1962, had a son in 1968; WWII - she knitted scarves for the Army; discrimination against Ukrainians; choir, orchestra, plays in Windsor - choir conductor Korchmarovskyi (??), Nick Stefaniuk; plays: Natalka-Poltavka, Zaporozhets za Dunaiem, etc; mandolin orchestra in Labor Temple; DPs; Shevchenko, Franko concerts; she graduated from the Ontario College of Education; she got fired because she had a divorce in 1961; Ukrainian dance; all her family belongs to UNO.

Sametz, Petro
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c164-166 · Item · 28 Dec. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 4, 1883 or 1895 (provides different years in English and Ukrainian) in Golshchava village, Terebovlia povit; his wife was Kateryna Bambukh (?); Orthodox; came to Canada in 1910; finished 4 grades of the Lviv gymnasium; he came to Canada along; his uncles came to Canada in 1896; in 1906 he went to Germany for 11 months to work at a factory to save money for his education; in August 1910 left his village for Canada; he travelled together with Julian Stechyshyn; Hamburg - Quebec - Winnipeg - Dauphin, ship “Prince Albert”; worked on a farm, then railway; in 1913 went to a college, became a teacher; Vasyl Svystun his friend; Ukrainian community in Dauphin: a socialist newspaper Robochyi narod, in 1911 subscribed to Ukrains’kyi holos; Oleksa Shtyk was a choir conductor; tensions with a Greek-Catholic priest; in 1918 Bishop Budka visited their area; inspector Hawryluk (?); the Orthodox Church movement; Fr. Savchuk; Vasyl’ Kudryk the 1st editor of Ukrainskyi holos; Metropolitan Sheptytskyi’s visit; Fr. Rozdol’skyi (?) was sent back to Europe for being married; Sametz started teaching in 1914; WWII; Ukrains’ke Hreko-Pravoslavne bratstvo, Metropolitan Platon, Bishop Oleksandr.

Part 2: Arkhymandryt karpatoros; Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada; Archbishop Oleksandr; Havryil Shevchenko from Ukraine came to him to offer to become a priest; Sametz quit teaching, moved to Saskatoon and in 1920 went first to Winnipeg together with Savchuk, Sartychuk (??), Yarema (??), teacher Shklianka, Julian Stechyshyn, and then to Saint Paul (??) to meet Metropolitan Germanos (??) from a Kyivan Patriarchate; they studied at the Collegium with mostly Greek-Catholics; the Syrian Metropolitan Germanos helping Ukrainians in Canada to create the Orthodox Church; Fr. Savchuk, Prof. Ohienko; Sobor; Arsenych (the 1st Ukrainian lawyer), tensions between Russian and Ukrainian churches over property; Bukovinian Orthodox Church; Archbishop Ivan Teodorovych and Sobor in 1924 - Ukrainization of the church services.

Part 3:In 1923 Sametz came to Canora, SK; his parishes in Manitoba; Kulychkovskyi (??); Fr. Kudryk (??); Dr. Sushko (??); 2 wave of immigration, after the vyzvolni zmahannia; Canadian Communists; Zaporozhan (??); General Sikevych (??); 1933 - Orthodox Church and Dr. Zhuk (??) in the USA; Metropolitan Teodorovych; Sametz worked 3 years in Manitoba, then 3 years in Saskatchewan, then 3 years in BC; used to have a Russian church to work in; 5 years in Edmonton; Ivan Nykyforuk (??); Bishop Budka; Brothership (uprava); Samostiinyky and their relation to the Orthodox Church; SUS.

Part 4: SUMC, Tezhuk (??); 1935 - SUMC Congress in Saskatoon; UNO vs Samostiinyky vs BUC in the 1930s; visit of Konovalets, Sushko; Strilets’ka Hromada in Edmonton; teacher of the “Ridna shkola” Zavadiuk (??); Karpats’ka Ukraina; Stechyshyn; Pavlo Krats (??); Petliura’s murder; helping Ukraine during the Holodomor; General Sikevych (??); WWII - attitude towards Germany; cooperation between Orthodox and Catholics during WWII; in 1938 Sametz moved to Toronto; built church in 1949; Oleksa Derhaliuk (??); DPs, attitudes to previous immigration waves; his relative Sametz.

Part 5: Mel’nykivtsi vs banderivtsi; Bishop Skrypnyk; Sametz returned to Toronto in 1950 and stayed till 1964; Fr. Hlukhaniuk (??) at Niagara Falls; Horodenko school; getting the Russian church in Saskatoon; area Star near Edmonton, Savka the farmer, court case that lasted several years; Orthodox people: Mykhailo Luchkovych; Dr. Mydroban (??); Starchovskyi (??); Yaremko (??); Arsenych (??)

Sagacz, Wolodymyr
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c158 · Item · 5 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 20, 1923 in Monastyrys’ke (??), Buchats’kyi povit; near Zarvanytsia, Podillia, Greek-Catholic; Ukrainian-Polish relations; cooperative movement; Prosvita; went to a gymnasium in Stanislaviv; Patriarch Slipyi, Dukhovna akademiia; bursa Sviatoho Yosafata; Vasyl’ Bybyk (?); Froliak; Karpats’ka Ukraina; his aunt was a Sister-Basilian (?) in USA; WWII; Bolsheviks occupation; pidpillia, Semen Zhyla (??); NKVD; attitude towards German Army.

Part 2: Ukrains’ka dyviziia; Sagacz right after the gymnasium got into the local administration; OUN; dopomohovyi komitet; suspil’nyi opekun; orhanizatsiia Vidrodzhennia; Dr. Pavlyshyn, protyalkohol’nyi hurtok; pidpillia; Erfasung (???) dyviziia; Ukrains’ka natsional’na armiia in 1945, Shandriuk (??) the Commander; Myroslav Proskurnyts’kyi (?); Prokopyshyn; Antin Derbish (?); getting into the English occupation zone; banderivtsi vs mel’nykivtsi; Fr. Bulanych (?), Fr. Lavryk (?); Fr. Prashko (?); Fr. Kushnir; Sagacz ran away from a camp in 1946; Ivan Rusak, Ivan Raskin (?); Dr. Polishchuk; Orest Horodnyts’kyi (?), Kaplun in the camp; polkovnyk Dolyns’kyi (?); Mykhailo Rosliak (?)

Rypalowski, Albina
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c227 · Item · 24 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Romanow, Maria
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c156 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Romanow, Joseph R.
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c154-155 · Item · 22 Mar. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.