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Wowk, Lev
CA BMUFA 0021-T-W-2008.024.c200-201 · Item · 19 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on July 14, 1914 (??) in a village of Myrnovets’ (??), Ternopil’ region; Greek-Catholic; his father participated in vyzvol’ni zmahannia; returned from a POW camp in 1921, and in 1928 went to Canada; Lev went to Canada in 1930 (Warsaw - Gdynia - ???); found a job of a simster (??); Strilets’ka Hromada; protses Romana Bidy (??); reasons for Ukrainian emigration; creating UNO in Toronto, Kosar, Pavliuchenko, Guliai (??), Zelenyi, Vasylyshyn, Hryhorovych, Hlynka; Kupchenko (??); Mykyta Romaniuk (??); Romaniuk; Kornylo Magera (??); Karpats’ka Ukraina; Aviation school (??); Stephan Pavliuk, Ievhen Stavryk, Tarnovyi (??) came in 1934, organizing a Telegraph School (??).

Part 2: The Telegraph School (??); Pavliuk and Tarnovyi left; then Oleksa Shestovs’kyi (??), Zalishchuk (??), Ambroziy Shestovs’kyi (??), Mykhailo Kalyniuk (??) - created in 1937 an aviation school (??); Petro Antokhii (??) donated his own commercial airplane; when WWII started, Zalishchuk and Ladyka were the first instructors in the Canadian Air Forces; 14 pilots from that school joined the Air Forces; UNO vs Het’mantsi; Bosyi (??); Tracy Phillips; UNO vs BUC; Fr. Kushnir; creation of CUC; SUS; Tracy Phillips; Kushnir & Kosar; Stechyshyn; Savchuk; Vasyl Burianyk (??); Ruryk (??); DPs; Samostiinyky & DPs; MUN; Kosar; Pavliuchenko; Tracy Phillips; George Simpson; Kirkconnell (??); CUC creation was prompted by the government.

Part 3: Choosing the Head of CUC; 1st and 2nd Congresses of CUC; 1946 - CUC Congress in Toronto; Wowk was in Army in 1945; confiscation of the Communist properties; discussing during the Congress what to do with the DPs; Panchuk; Froliak; Wowk wrote Froliak’s speech for the 1st Congress; Kokhan and CUC; Kushnir; Vasylyshyn and Dopomohovyi Fond in Europe; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi (??)-Davydovych (??)-Kysylevs’kyi (??); Turans’kyi (??) created the Club Ukrains’kykh voiakiv in London, not Panchuk.

Part 4: Panchuk; Davydovych from UNO; Dr. K; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi from OUN; Novyi shliakh moving from Edmonton to Saskatoon; DPs & Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy, banderivtsi vs melnykivtsi; Zahariichuk (??); Kokhan (??); Ivanchuk; Mandryka (??); Vasylyshyn; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO, Pohorets’kyi, Yuzyk; Kosar was negative towards it.