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Describes the funeral customs practiced by one Bukoynian settler in Alberta and his recollections of how it was done in Ukraine. bib., quest.

Examines the various Ukrainian rituals, customs and beliefs associated with the occurrence of death as collected from one family. bib.

A study on the importance and actuality of games as part of the funeral rite in the region of Hutzulshchyna.

The goal of the Local Culture and Diversity on the Prairies project was to document everyday life, ethno-cultural identity and regional variation among people of Ukrainian, French, German and English heritage. How did people from diverse backgrounds interact, adapt and become "prairie Canadians" in the first half of the twentieth century? What was the relationship between cultural inheritance and local community participation? How did they express their various identities on the local community level? The project was designed to generate a great deal of documentary information and primary resources for further research in many aspects of these people's lives.

The collection consists of some 800 hours of audio recordings documenting life in approximately 450 different locations on the Prairies and across Canada prior to 1939, as well as video recordings, photographs, documents, field notes and other material associated with the project.

The collection consists of personal documents of William Kostash, documents related to Mary Kostash's teaching career, family and professional photographs, and correspondence between Mary and William, as well as letters from Mary's students.