Showing 51 results

Archival description
Alberta English
Print preview Hierarchy
Card view Table view
1 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
Roman Petriw ethnographic collection
CA BMUFA 0067 · Collection · 1978-1979

The collection consists of Ukrainian proverbs, jokes and comic tales collected in Alberta for Ukrainian Folklore courses taken by Roman at the University of Alberta.

 Petriw, Roman
Band Music
Band Music
CA BMUFA UF1994.023.c235 · Item
Part of Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta collection

This item contains two interviews with unknown females. The first interviewee was born in Russia in 1909. She talks about the place where she lived and family members that were starving and being deported to Siberia. She then talks about coming to Canada and what she and her husband did in Canada. She talks about the church and being Lutheran and Evangelic.

The second interviewee's parents came from Poland and she was raised in a Lutheran family. Her family left to Ukraine and then came to Canada in 1927 and moved to Alberta in 1928.

The tape also contains music recordings
Symbolism in the wedding ritual
CA BMUFA 0033-7-1993.015 · Item · 1993
Part of Brian Cherwick ethnographic collection

"Symbolism in the wedding ritual marking the passage of a young woman from single to married status" discusses elements of in the Ukrainian wedding tradition that symbolize change for the bride. Includes bibliography.
4 Ukrainian Stories
CA BMUFA 0263-7-1993-9 · Item · August 23, 1993
Part of Halyna Klid collection

Klid tells 4 Ukrainian stories, one about an award, another about Fringe, one on independence, and one about a cruise.
Orest Semchishen photograph collection
CA BMUFA 0001 · Collection · 1970s - 1980s

Collection consists of photographs depicting Byzantine rite churches in rural Alberta.

 Semchishen, Orest
Symbol, sign, allegory
CA BMUFA 0033-7-1993.012 · Item · 1993
Part of Brian Cherwick ethnographic collection

"Symbol, sign, allegory - Theoretical considerations - Printed summaries and inventories of symbols" discusses semiotics and its application to folklore. Includes bibliography.
Zbyrannia
CA BMUFA 0034-1 · File · 1979
Part of Daria Luciw ethnographic collection

A collection of texts of songs, proverbs and customs collected from informants in Alberta for the course Ukrainian Folklore 499. Includes text of a religious letter from Father Kuban. Copies of work that describe love and kozak songs are also included.

 Luciw, Daria
Ukrainian Pioneers Association of Alberta collection
CA BMUFA 0042 · Collection · 1941-1997

The collection consists of the Certificate of Incorporation (1941), history of the organization in Ukrainian and English, meetings agenda and minutes, correspondence between UPAA and various people in Ukraine, project reports and documentation (includes two publication projects: Svarich Memoirs and Plawiuk's Ukrainian Proverbs), photographs and a ledger.

 Ukrainian Pioneers Association of Alberta