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Part 1: Born on December 4, 1913 in a village of Boberka, Turka district; finished a Naridna shkola in his village; he had a brother (died in 1943 in Germany) and a sister (stayed at home); Pacification in a neighboring village Zhupaly, that village was burnt down by the Polish Army in 1939; chytal’nia Prosvita in his village, subscribing to the “Novyi chas” magazine; OUN; protses Basarabova (??), Hlushko (??); Bandera as one of many leaders; Danylyshyn, Bilas - leaders; Holodomor; WWII, Germans as defenders from the Communists; Wasyl was in Polish Army in 1936-1937, then later he married; his wife is Anna Pahulych; 1941, June 1930, banderivtsi; rozkol OUN; Wasyl left Ukraine in 1944 for Germany (through Transcarpathia, Budapest, Austria); helping UPA; Senyk, banderivtsi vs. mel’nykivtsi; refugee camps in the British zone; Wasyl sympathized mel’nykivtsi; banderivtsi fighting mel’nykivtsi in the DP camps; physical altercations at the DP camps; Wasyl was delivering newspapers “Vil’na Ukraina”, various magazines; he went to Canada on a boat “General Shtugis” (??), from Bremen to Halifax, then to Piments (??); Pashchyn (??), working in a mine; Fr. Horoshko; working in Holter (??) till 1968; Voznyi (??); Kaniuk (??); UNO; samostiinyky in Kirkland; Zavaliy (??); Pylyp Migus (??); Hrytsyshyn; Pinkovs’kyi (??); Catholic Church in Kirkland.

Part 2: Fr. Horoshko in Kirkland; Wasyl refusing to spovidatysia to Fr. Horoshko because of the priest’s refusal to do that for the Orthodox; Communists Hall; Lavreniv (??) and dances in 1970; UNO decline in 1965 - people living Kirkland; Mrs. Didyk and DPs; CUC in Kirkland Lake in about 1970, secretly organized by Fr. Chaika; future of the Ukrainian diaspora; Vzaiemopomich, Samoilenko.

Part 1: Born on August 2, 1933 in Kirkland Lake, ON; his father came to Canada for economic reasons, from Ternopil region, Buchach district, a village of Trebukhivtsi, in 1928; his father remarried in Ruan (??), Quebec; WWII, Ukrainian family of Borzuns; V-Day; finished High School in Kirkland, University of Pennsylvania; his life at the University; Slavic Club at the University; after graduating he went to Baltimore (??), took a job; his unfortunate love with a Ukrainian girl - prejudiced Ukrainians; growing up as a Ukrainian in Canada; Ukrainian school at Kirkland - teacher Mary Kuzyk, Tkachuk (??), Paraschuk (??), Mary Kozlov, textbooks; Ukrainian Hall; Ukrainian dances; Mike Kwinka (??).

Part 2: Mike Kwinka (??) teaching Ukrainian dances; Olga Romanov; Ukrainian Labor Temple; DPs; working as a mine inspector in the beginning of 1950s; 1940 strike in Kirkland when nationalists did go for strike; working conditions in mines; leaders of the Labor Temple: Steve Knysh (Secretary); Nick Lapish (??); Harry Prokopchuk (??); Mike Metliuk (??); a cooperative store later converted in Jehovah Witnesses Hall; DPs; Russell’s work in mines; he came back to Toronto after the American University in 1957; Ukrainian community started declining in Kirklake in 1940; Harry Prokopchuk (??); Lapish (??); Ukrainian orchestra; Mary Kuzyk - music teacher.

Part 3: Entertainment in small towns; Ukrainian community used to be the most active; costumes were homemade - no renting at that time; people in the Labor Temple; Yachuk (??); Ukrainian identity of Russell.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (??)

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.

Part 1: Born on June 7, 1908 in Bukovyna, village of Orkhykhliby (??), povit of Kytsman’; family came to Canada in 1928; Greek-Orthodox; went to work where most Ukrainians would work - roads; Canada was requesting 800 Bukovynians for harvesting; his trip cost him 250 Rumanian lais; the route: Chernivtsi - Hamburg - Halifax; hard life in Bukovyna; Polish pan Wanda (??); Jews and Ukrainians; Artamon finished 3 classes in Ukraine, worked for CPR for 40 years; during Depression had work; in Regina - Prosvita, UNO, Samostiinyky; Artamon joined the Strilets’ka hromada; Ukrainian Communists; Prof. Lapchuk (??); Ivanyts’kyi - Head of the Strilets’ka hromada; Seiko (??); Seniuk (??); Fr. Yurii Ferentsii (??); he moved to Regina in 1928; he left the Strilets’ka hromada in a protest; Fr. Podol’s’kyi (??); Stefan Kutsan (??); Organiichuk (??); Het’mantsi, Fedorovych; Kapustians’kyi (??)

Part 2: Prosvita; UNO & Het’mantsi, Fedorovych and his son; Ukrainian Coop. Store created in 1947; Mrs. Lapchuk; WWII, Artamon was a foreman during the war; CUC creation; Manoliy (??); Orthodox Church in Canada; discrimination against Ukrainians on CPR; his wife is Mary Poplitai (??) from Ukraine, village of Kytsman’; he married in 1932.