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Bagan, Alex
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c009.A · Item · 29 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Was born on ?????? (cannot hear) 14 , 1901 in a village of Peremeliv of the Huchatyns’kyi povit. He is a Greek-Catholic. Had 2 older sisters. After serving in Polish army, came to Canada in 1927. During WWI was fighting in the Halyts’ka Ukrains’ka armiia. Had 4 grades of education (in a village school). He was almost 17 when he was forced to go to the Ukrainian army. Was fighting in Zolochiv, Babyna Hora, Pidhaichyky in 1918. Ran away home from the front. The Poles came and occupied them. He was forced to join the Polish army. He was then near Warsaw in 1922. There was, though, no discrimination against Ukranians in Polish army. He chose to go to Canada because the family had no means to survive. There was his extended family in Canada (left in 1899). He loaned money for the trip from wealthier villagers and had to pay back 70% interest. He made sure not to work on a farm but for a company (only during the Depression he would work on farms). On May 8, 1927 he already came to Edmonton. They did not let them get off in Winnipeg but made them go to Edmonton for an additional price of $7. Was lucky to get a job in a forest. Then work on harvesting. went to Lamont and got a job on a farm of an Englishman; then on a border between Alberta & Saskatchewan. Then worked in Genek (???). Then went to Winnipeg in the fall of 1928. During the Depression he belonged to the Ukrainian organization “KROV” (???)
When was forced to join the Ukrainian Army in 1918 he was charged with desertion, and got 25 beatings.
During the Depression he had multiple little jobs that paid little. He married a Ukrainian woman in 1937.

Bayrak, Mykhailo
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c010 · Item · 10 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on May 23, 1900 in a village of Hadynki (???) Buchatyn povit (??)
In 1918 was conscripted to an Austrian army. His father was interned by the Poles. Came to Canada in 1926 (his cousin sent him an affidavit from Canada), to Saskatchewan where his cousin was working on a railway. In 1928 he came to Edmonton. In Patfiner (??) was a Narodnyi Dim. In Edmonton, there was Narodnyi Dim and Instytut Hrushevs’koho. Ukrains’ka Strilets’ka Hromada appeared in 1928. Communitsts vs. Sichovi stril’tsi. Bohdan Zelenyi (??) as the first head of Strilets’ka Hromada. UNO was organized in 1932. Colonel Konovalets’ from OUN came to Edmonton in 1928 asking for support. Also, Mel’nychuk visited, Shushko, and several other known personalities. Lawyer Mr. Romaniuk in Toronto had most contacts with Konovalets’. Ridna shkola was organized in about 1931.

Part 2: Avramenko and dance groups; UNO transferring its headquarters to Saskatoon in 1933. ‘Novyi shliakh’; CUC; WWII; helping DPs in camps with parcels; relations with the arriving DPs. Andriy Zhmun’ko (??) from the old immigration, Malynka (??). Volodymyr Kosar.

Babiuk, John
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c008.A · Item · 6 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Born on November 18, 1901 in Bukovyna. Orthodox Christian. Was conscripted in a Romanian army. There were 6 children in the family. His sister was in Canada (in Regina) by the time he returned from the army, and he joined her in 1930. He was a member of the Strilets’ka Hromada (Ukrainian War Veteran Association). Interviewer asks about people from a photo in a book (Kozak, Veselovsky, Kuzyk, Babej, Abramovych, Kukhar, Semiuk, Symotiuk). Orahnizatsia Ukrains’kykh samostiinykiv and its relation to the Strilets’ka Hromada. Het’mantsi and Strilets’ka Hromada. Strilets’ka Hromada owned a Hall. A rift between Bukovynians and Halychynians; Orthodox vs. Greek-Catholics. Samostiinyky used to have a nice Hall and small church.

His wife came to Canada in 1922. Her brothers came to Canada first and brought her over (sending an affidavit). She was born in Bukovyna; Orthodox faith. Worked on a farm.

Behun, Paul
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c011 · Item · 5 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 7, 1927 in Coniston. His father came to Canada in 1913.
Ukrainian community in Coniston. Mr.Khmara, Mr. Veselen’kyi. Fed’ Bihun (??); Iurko Riabyi. The first priest was Vasyl’ Pidpivchak (???). Kaplytsia was built in 1928 when a Catholic church was started being built. Robitnychyi Dim. Father Kominatskyi (???). Mr. Khmara bought the Robitnychyi Dim for $700 so that the building would not be transferred to any other organization outside the community. Discrimination against Ukrainians. Ukrainian women on the Church committee. Father Verats’kyi (???). Father Karapyts’kyi.

Part 2: Father Karapyts’kyi from 1950 through 1970; Ukrains’ke natsional’ne ob’iednannia; Orest Savchyk (??); Father Pryima (??); Father Karakuz (??); Ukrainske Natsional’ne ob’iednannia; CUC; Communists; Father Elatskyi (???); Church life.

Billings, Gregory
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c013.A · Item · 5 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Born on January 20, 1933 in Sudbury. His wife Stella (nee Pankiv) was born in Saskatchewan. His father was born in Canada in 1909, mother in 1914. Was a member of the Ukrainian Farmer Labor Temple Association. Ukrainian school - teacher Tymoshevskyi (??). Was involved in a drama club. DPs and their relations with the Labor Temple. National conventions of the UAC in the later 1950s. Organization’s choirs and dance groups.

Boykowich, Michael
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c018 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Saskatoon in 1908; Mohyla Institute; Catholics vs Orthodox; Convention of 1926; Samostiinyky; UNO.

Part 2: UNO; Strilets’ka Hromada; Sheptyts’kyi; Orthodox Church movement.

Boychuk, Alexander
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c015 · Item · 25 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Born on March 22, 1903 in a Ukrainian village of Horodenka. Came to Canada in 1920, to Montreal. Then went back and again came back in 1922, to Montreal again. Worked in a mine in Timmins. In 1930 changed a job (club store???). Communists. Tkatchuk.
His wife is Maria Kunin (??)
Prosvita; DPs

Boyko, Nick
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c017 · Item · 27 Jul. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in October 1887 (???). Came to Canada in 1910. Local Ukrainian Hall named “Zoria”. Financing Pidkarpats’ka Ukraina. Local Catholic priests. Shuns’kyi (???). Ukrainians-Communists. Local churches. Catholics vs Orthodox. Three separate “Prosvita” Societies. UNO. Murder of Petliura in 1926.

Part 2: Hitler and Ukraine’s hopes; DPs; Catholics vs Orthodox.

Bozek, Anna
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c019 · Item · 23 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Nee Kachuriak was born on May 10, 1909. Had 6 siblings. Father was sent to the Siberia for 4,5 years. Her husband went to Canada in 1926 and she joined him in 1932 (travelled from Rotterdam to Halifax). Her husband organized building a Ukrainian church in Timmins (Pashchyn (???), Podolian, Plaskovis (???). Mr. & Mrs. Rysak; Mike Tyshliuk; Mr. & Mrs. Klapushchak as donors) in about 1945. UNO Hall (Roshchyns’kyi (??), Slots’kyi (??)). Orthodox priest had services in the Hall. Communists. ‘Ridna shkola’; Father Horoshko, Motryns’kyi; a fight after selling the Natsional’nyi dim; DPs; discrimination of Ukrainians in the 1930s; Women’s organization.

Bratko, Dan
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c020 · Item · 27 Mar. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 22, 1925. His parents came to Canada in 1910. Mother’s maiden name is Lakusta. They were first in the area of Vegreville and Two Hills and father worked in a mine; then they moved to the “East End of Vancouver”. Ukrainian Farmer Labor Temple Association Hall; Ukrainian school; Holodomor as a fiction; UNO.

Part 2: UNO; WWII, internment of the Communist community’s leaders; losing the Hall; Workers Benevolent Association; CUC.

Bukowsky, Nikander
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c021-022 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in 1905. Came to Canada from Volyn’ in 1929; he is Orthodox; came together with his cousin. His father returned from WWI in 1920. Interviewee was making boots for living.

Part 2: Was conscripted in the Polish army; was forced to attend courses while in the army; a special battalion near Warsaw where reserve officers were prepared; his was to Canada: Poland - Germany - Belgium - France - Halifax; had to have $200 in hands; from Halifax to Saskatchewan on a train; Communists; Strilets’ka Hromada, choir; Catholic vs Orthodox communities; Kosaryk (???) as the Head of the Strilets’ka Hromada; UNO.

Part 3: Building the Hall; Vashchuk (???); divochyi hurtok within the Strilets’ka Hromada; Communists as enemies; CUC; polkovnyk Konovalets’, polkovnyk Sushko; UNO; Aktsiia Natsional’noi iednosti in 1932; Ukrains’ke Natsional’ne ob’iednannia Kanady; Het’mantsi; Sichovi Stril’tsi; Ukrains’kyi robitnychyi dim; Senator Yuzyk as a Head of the Ukrains’ki Natsionalisty.

Part 4: Yuzyk and Komitet vidrodzennia UNO; mel’nykivtsi; Sviatoslav Frolyk (???); 1st Congress of CUC in 1943; changes in organizations over time; CUC; Novyi shliakh, Mykhailo Pohorets’kyi (???); changing the headquarters of Novyi shliakh; Kanadiiskyi ukrainets’ in the 1930s; Pavliuchenko (???) was building churches; organizing the 1st ever Ukrains’ka kredytova spilka in 1939.

Davies, Raymond Arthur
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c016;035 · Item · 6 Jun. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Financing Ukrainian and Jewish collections at the National Library of Canada (??), rare books.

Part 2: Born in Canada in 1908 (??). Parents went to the USA. Then returned to Toronto in 1939 (??). Wrote a book - was well received. His relations with Ukrainians. Ukrainian Famine.

Part 3: Stalin; he went after the WWII in Moscow as a Canadian correspondent; his visit to the USSR and Ukrainian SSR; McKenzi (???); Communists; DPs; antisemitism; characteristics of the interwar Ukrainian situation in Canada .