Describes the funeral customs practiced by one Bukoynian settler in Alberta and his recollections of how it was done in Ukraine. bib., quest.
Swinton, KeithPart 1: Came to Canada in 1929 from Ukraine (village Zhulyn, Lviv oblast, Stryi raion) when she was 15; nee Chaban; came to her brother on a farm; moved later to [?]; Robitnycha orhanizatsiia; married there and lived there until 1941; she finished 6 grades of a village school; family was Catholic; her father was deputy chairman (zastupnyk viita); her brother in Canada converted to Orthodox; her route to Canada: Gdansk - London - Halifax - Montreal - Saskatoon. There were 12 children in her family; Mark Polunychka sent her a ticket and she moved to [?], worked there in a hotel; big Ukrainian community; Drama Festival; moving to Victoria with her husband; deportation of Ukrainians in the 1930s; Robitnycha orhanizatsia opened a kitchen soup; Communists; Ukrainian school in Victoria; demise of the Robitnychyi rukh in Victoria.
This item is a research paper written about the folk hero, Oleksa Dovbush from Ukraine, and what he and other folk heroes say about the Ukrainian national narrative.
Lytviak, MarkoThis item is a research paper about the symbolism of the rooster in Eastern Slavic folktales, using "Ivanoushka the Simpleton", "The Fox, the Hare and the Cock", and "the Tale of the Golden Cockerel" for analysis.
Hontar, NataliyaThis item is a research paper which analyzes whether Propp's 31 functions that all Slavic folktales have in common are still applicable to contemporary renditions of folktales, using the Last Bogatyr as a case study.
Raza, Abbie