Brochures, souvenir books, and programs of concerts by Shevchenko.
The collection consists of documents pertaining to activities of NTSH, Edmonton branch. It includes correspondence, founding documents, programs, invitations, etc. The collection also comprises documents related to St. George's Parish in Edmonton, notebooks and newspaper clippings probably collected by someone else.
Shevchenko Scientific SocietyShort essays: Folk beliefs - The World of Plants; Animal Folk Tales - Summery; The Apostles and the Saints - Summery; Magic Tales; Oleksa Dovbush in National Oral Works; Anecdotes; Riddles and Other Verbal Puzzles; Proverbs; Robert B. Klymasz, "Folk Narrative Among Ukrainian Canadians in Western Canada." Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1973; Stith Thomsons' The Folktale.
Popiwchak, MariaMaiete Veselu Vdachui Vmiiete Spilkuvatys'z liud'my? Tsikavytes' istoriieiu I kul'turoiu. Picture of 2 Ukrainian women in a corn field.
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.