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Part 1: Born on September 20, 1928 in Espanola; finished Secondary School; his brother Dmytro died accidentally; his mother was a teacher; local Hall was built in 1919; Ivan Khatych (??) the builder; Prosvita; his mother was Yustyna Onys’ka (??); local choir - teacher Mykhal’s’kyi (??); MUN in 1947-49 organized by Mykhailo Orekhivs’kyi (??); lost their Hall; Vasyl’ Stebnyk (??) was a Head of MUN; in 1946, their Paper Plant started working again; priests coming, using the Catholic Church in Espanola for Orthodox services; Fr. Opyima (??); Fr. Barabus (??); Fr. Karpins’kyi (??); Fr. Kalykh (??); Fr. Jurma (??); his father opened a store in 1928; other commerces in the city; Mr. Saiko (??) owning a food store; DPs; Syroid was a UNO member; is a member of Ukrainian Professional Club (?); Senator Yuzyk; Dr. Liupol (??); Syroid has 3 sons; his parents bringing an orphan relative from Halychyna and giving her education in Canada.

Part 2: Subscribing to the Ukrainian newspapers Oko, Postup, Svitlo
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Part 1: Born on March 1, 1891 in the village of Horodytsia Vasylians’ka (??), story of the village and its name; family came to Canada in 1912 (from Antwerp to Halifax to Hamilton); came to Espanola in 1916; Ukrainian Church; Petro Zena (??); Maslosoiuz; Serafyntsi, Vasyl’ Bachyns’kyi; Vasyl’ Homyniuk came and built a Hall; Palamaruk; Prosvita; Ukrainian school (William’s wife was a teacher), a choir; UNO; Humeniuk went to Windsor.

Part 2: Working at the paper factory; 1930-1944 - difficult times; subscribing to Novyi shliakh; Halushchak, Ostrovs’ki; Syroid is Catholic; DPs after WWII - Ivan Kozachenko; death of Syroid’s brother; newspaper Zhinocha dolia; Zhinocha volia; Ukrains’kyi Narodnyi Soiuz - Svoboda.

Part 1: Born on April 28, 1907 in Ivankove, Borshchiv povit; his wife is Anna Kravets’; family moved to Ternopil’ when Wasyl was about 2 y.o.; his mother died early; his elder sister was taking care of him; finished gymnasium and went to the University; in 1926, his brother went to Canada; he went to Winnipeg in 1930 (Gdansk - Montreal, ship “Kostiushko”); attended a school to learn English; was a member of UNO, Strilets’ka hromada; his brother and sister-in-law were members of the Strilets’ka hromada; in 1931 Sytnyk went to teach in a Ukrainian school in Narodnyi Dim in Oborn (??); then he went to Winnipeg; then went to Toronto in 1931 Strilets’ka hromada in Toronto; worked for 2 years on a sweater-making factory; in 1932, created a cooperative “Buduchnist’”; Mr. Vynnyk (??); Pastor Fesenko from the Control Commission; Bagan (??) from Gdansk, selling “Buduchnist’” to him in 1937; Sytnyk went to work on a pharmaceutical company.

Part 2: Fesenko helped him to get a job; Strilets’ka hromada in Toronto - raising money for Ridna shkola and such; Kul’chyts’kyi (??) - embezzlement accusation; organizing UNO in 1932 - Mel’nychuk; the Savchuk’s meetings; Yaroslav Pohorets’kyi - Secretary of the Strilets’ka hromada; Tsukornyk (??) - choir director and Ridna shkola; Koval’s’kyi - next choir director; women and OUK; Sych (??) - the first choir director; Sytnyk was the Head of the Ridna shkola till 1946; OUN, General Kapustians’kyi, Mrs. Savchuk; Petryshyn (??); UNO and SUS; Prof. Simpson and Kirkonel (??); Ukrainian Communists and their clashes with Strilets’ka hromada; Fr. Kamenets’kyi (??); contacts with Ukrainian Protestants, Pohorets’kyi, Savyts’kyi; raising money for Holodomor 1933; Het’mantsi; Bosyi (??); Shvartspat (??) in Toronton; discrimination against Ukrainians; helping Zakarpats’ka Ukraina, OUK; assassination of Konovalets’; Kamenets’kyi (??) the President of CUC; WWII.

Part 3: Buying the Communists’ Hall; Ukrainian Credit Union; Vasylenko, Hirniak, Sytnyk contacting the Government about buying the Hall; in 1943, Credit Union was organized; Topol’nyts’kyi; in 1940, Ontario got a right to have Credit Unions; Sytnyk was the first Head of the Credit Union; Vasyl’ Koval’chuk (??); Mr. Babiy (??); 1957 - Coordination Committee of the Credit Unions of Toronto; 1971 - Congress of CUC, elected a Council of the Credit Union of Canada; 1973 - World Council of the Credit Unions; Tarnavs’kyi (??), Rossokha (??); banderivtsi and credit union; Sytnyk was an executive member of the Credit Union for 35 years; CUC creation, Fr. Kamenets’kyi, Humeniuk (??); organizing the bandura players concert after WWII; helping DPs in camps and in Canada; banederivtsi vs. mel’nykivtsi.

Part 4: Banderivtsi in Canada; Knysh (??); Hutar (??); Kosar as the Head of UNO; Pavliuchenko; moving executive of UNO from Winnipeg to Toronto in 1954; Vasylyshyn; DPs’ input; 1970 - Komitet na uzdorovlennia UNO, Pohorets’kyi, Martynets’, Yuzyk; Novyi shliakh moving to Toronto, buying new computers for the new publishing house; publishing the newspaper in English; Filias of UNO Toronto-Zakhid.

1. Press Conference held in Ottawa on Monday, June 7th, 1971 following meeting of Representatives of Ukrainian-Canadian Committee and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
2. Ткачук П. "Кінцеве слово" [на святі Тараса Шевченка].