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Paska workshop documentation project
Paska workshop documentation project
CA BMUFA 0061 · Collection · March 13, 2010

Paska Workshop Documentation Project was a project by Natalie Kononenko that aimed to document a workshop conducted by Nadia Cyncar, a community leader, at the Ukrainian Catholic Parish of St. George. Attendees learned about Easter traditions, as well as how to bake paska (Easter bread), how to decorate it, symbolism of decorations, etc.

The cooking was done by Joyce Sirski-Howell. The collection consists of a video recording (raw footage), audio recording and photographs of the workshop. The team who documented the event consisted of: Natalie Kononenko, Maryna Hrymych, Svitlana Kukharenko, Maryna Chernyavska and Peter Holloway.

 Kononenko, Natalie
Opryshko family collection
Opryshko family collection
CA BMUFA 0047 · Collection · 1945-1975

Collection consists of correspondence between Opryshko family in Canada and in Poland and Ukraine.

 Opryshko family
Onufrijchuk family collection
Onufrijchuk family collection
CA BMUFA 0027 · Collection

This is a collection of folklore materials and family archives from Roman Onufrijchuk, a key leader in the 1970s and 1980s "Cultural Immersion Camps" organized by CYMK, which involved many future leaders of the Ukrainian community across Canada. This unique and large collection highlights one family's experience in Ukraine, in the Displaced Camps in Europe, and in Canada. The Onufrijchuk fonds includes family photographs, correspondence, souvenirs, publications and a large collection of embroideries.

 Onufrijchuk, Roman
Olha Jurkiw folklore collection
CA BMUFA 0083 · Collection · 1977

The collection consists of an essay which analyzes folkloric and symbolic elements in seven ballads by Taras Shevchenko.

 Jurkiw, Olha
Nicholas Kostyniuk proverbs collection
CA BMUFA 0043 · Collection · 1980s-2001

Collection of proverbs (in type form and handwritten) from Nicholas Kostyniuk. He compiled this collection gradually. Nicholas wrote down many of the proverbs from his mother Anne who used them a lot at home. He finished working on the collection in late 1980s-early 1990s and then found his notes only in 2001. Bishop Yakymyshyn said they were valuable and needed to be kept. A Basilian seminarian Yuriy typed them up. He preferred standard literary language.

A copy of the local history book from the location in Ukraine where Elizabeth's great grandmother came is enclosed.

 Kostyniuk, Nicholas
Natalie Kononenko Central Ukraine fieldwork collection
CA BMUFA 0060 · Collection · 2001-2005

The collection consists of fieldwork materials collected by Natalie Kononeko during her trips to numerous villages in Central Ukraine in 2001-2005. Interviews cover a wide range of folklore topics including ritual and belief, births, weddings, funerals, songs and stories, and more.

 Kononenko, Natalie
Nadia Olga Vychopen ethnographic collection
CA BMUFA 0075 · Collection · 1978

The collection consists of an essay written by Nadia Olga Vychopen for her UKR-421 Ukrainian Folklore course at the University of Alberta and describes the village of Zolota Sloboda and the various customs and celebrations within this village as she remembers it.

 Vychopen, Nadia Olga
Nadia Dmitriuk ethnographic collection
CA BMUFA 0070 · Collection · 1978-1979

The collection consists of fieldwork materials collected by Nadia Dmitriuk for her Ukrainian Folklore courses at the University of Alberta and include proverbs and sayings, as well as wedding songs and other traditional songs.

 Dmitriuk, Nadia
Myra Petriw ethnographic collection
CA BMUFA 0066 · Collection · 1978

A collection of songs and customs collected from Alberta residents: Mariia Mykytiv, Hafiia Ianyshevs'ka, Iustyna Visniuk, Maria Husak, Marusia Kuz'o-Hura, Ol'ha Hladun, includes carols (koliadky i shchedrivky), spring songs (haivky), kolomyiky, religious songs, love songs, wedding songs, Easter songs, harvest songs, as well as descriptions of wedding customs and rituals.

The audio cassettes contain carols, shchedrivky, religious songs; wedding songs; folk songs; ballads; kolomyiky; obzhynkovi songs; Easter songs recorded by Myra Petriw from Ol'ha Hladun, Maria Kuzio-Hura, Iustyna Visniuk and Maria Husak.

 Petriw, Myra