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Burianyk, Wasyl
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c023-024 · Item · 28 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 29, 1895 in a village of Iamnytsi near Stanislaviv; Greek-Catholic faith; came to Canada in 1912; Kin’ (???Keen???) the politician; Samostiinyky and Ukrainian Orthodox church, ideology of SUS; UNO; Mr. Kosar as ‘Ukrainian Napoleon’; Pavliuchenko; Samostiinyky and Arsenych; Svystun; Bachyns’kyi; Petro Savchuk (???); Stechyshyn; Dr. Kysylevsky (???); Father Samchuk; the name of “Samostiinyky”; Robertson & Sculton (???); Het’mantsi & Samostiinyky; Paterson (???); Burianyk writing a letter to Simmons (??); Saskatoon legion & Saskatchewan Security Corp, in which Burianyk was a Constable; Father Kushnir; Stechyshyn; Father Olenchuk (??).

Part 2: Creating the CUC; Labai; Myroslav Stechyshyn (??); Mykhailo Stechyshyn; Father Udyn (???); Dr. Yatskiv (???); Vasylyshyn; Osyp Nazaruk (???); Mr. Chaika; DPs; CUC; Savchuk (???), Kushnir; Congresses of CUC in the 1940s; Simpson as loyal to the Orthodox SUS; molodshyi SUM & starshyi SUM; women’s section of SUM.

Part 3: SUS support for the UNR;
Burianyk’s wife was from the family of Zaleshchuk, she converted into Orthodoxy; a fight between Budka & Svystun.

Olynyk, Roman
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c135 · Item · 14 Jun. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: His pseudonym was Roman Rakhmannyi (Rakhman in Arabic = powerful), he supported Ukrainian Nationalist movement against German Nazism; born in December 1918; his father-in-law was a sotnyk of Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armia; his father was at the Italian and Serbian Fronts; Roman finished High School, gymnasium, graduated from the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Academy; has a PhD from Montreal University (?); Ridna shkola in Rohatyn; mytropolyt Sheptyts’kyi turned the gymnasium in a Theological Seminary; his patriotism at the gymnasium; priests in Ukraine; relations between Ukrainians and Jews, Jews in Halyts’ka armiia.

Part 2: Jews and Ukrainians; WWII events; OUN, Stets’ko; Stepan Bandera; OUN fraction; Sushko; Baranovs’kyi; Konovalets’; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Knysh; Mel’nyk, mel’nykivtsi; banderivtsi.

Nemilowich, Myron
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c134 · Item · 29 Nov. 1982
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Born on November 28, 1910 in Drohobych; Greek-Catholic; his father came to Canada (Winnipeg) in 1926; his father’s brothers were in Canada before that; Myron had 5 brothers; his mother stayed in the Old Country and father remarried in Canada; Myron came to Canada in 1927; Myron worked in a shop; he belonged to the Robitnychyi Dim because his family belonged to it; Labay; discrimination against Ukrainians; he married in 1939 (wife’s nee Oryskevych); DPs; Myron belonged for 2 years to Workers Benevolent Association; he has 6 children; DPs; his cousin belonged to UPA.

Marunchak, Michael
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c129-130 · Item · 31 May 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Liha Politychnykh v’iazniv; Tovarystvo Politv’iazniv; Mel’nyk, OUN; Pavlykovs’kyi; Bishop Buchko (??); UPA sviatkuvannia 1948; visiting concentration camps looking for political prisoners; Martynets’, Mykhailo Bazhans’kyi; “persha linia” vs “druha liniia” in camps; influence of the camps of Ukrainians; Canada as a destination country; Marunchak has a brother Vasyl’ in Canada; pan Tliuka (???) from UNO; DPs in Canada; Maruhcnak became a member of Narodnyi Dim; Viktor Mazanets’ (??) came to Canada; Marunchak arrived to Winnipeg; he was a member of Liha Vyzvolennia Ukrainy.

Part 2: His membership in various organizations; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; CUC, opposition to CUC; Mel’nykivtsi vs Banderivtsi; the nationalism question; Orthodox community.

Part 3: Ukrainian churches; CUC discussion; Uchytel’s’ka orhanizatsiia in 1907 (??).

Lobay, Stepan and Maria
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c124 · Item · 3 Apr. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on November 24, 1904 in Halychyna (Sokal’s’kyi povit, village of Orzvyn (???)); his father was quite wealthy; Stepan had 2 brothers and 2 sisters; relations between Ukrainian and Jews in Orzvyn; vyzvol’ni zmahannia; life under the Poles; Lobay left for Canada in 1927; many people from his village went to Winnipeg; working in Osagan (??), Ontario during winter; married in 1929 and moved to Vancouver; UNO, Communists, Prosvita in Winnipeg; Vasyl’ Pelekh - his shvager; Lobay went to Vancouver to his sister; Prosvita in Vancouver; Catholic parish, then Orthodox parish (Svystun); Samostiinyky; Communists and their Hall; Strilets’ka hromada; UNO; Prosvita Hall; Mr. Duda - the Head of UNO; Mr. Hankalo (??) from Edmonton; Hankalo, Khomiak, Butsiy (??); women’s section in UNO; UNO and Samostiinyky; Fr. Dobko (??); new calendar in 1930; DPs.

Part 2: DPs and frictions with them; Mel’nykivtsi and UNO; Liha Vysvolennia Ukrainy;

Lobay’s wife’s nee is Puchko, she is from Snaityn povit, Green-Catholic, her father was a butcher, in her village there were 4 churches; Jews and Ukrainians in her village; vyzvol’ni zmahannia, Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; she finished the village school; her family had a relative in Winnipeg and joined her in October 1924; she later worked in a bakery, as a nurse, and dietician; Ukrainian life in Winnipeg in the 1920s; Samostiinyky in Vancouver; Prosvita, UNO; she was the Head of the UNO’s women’s section; Petro Mel’nychuk; Svystun; Fr. Dobko, Fr. Batman (??); Fr. Didyk (??); discrimination against Ukrainains; UNO buying the Japanese Hall; government taking away Communists’ Halls; CUC.

Lashin, Sam
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c121-122 · Item · 4 Apr. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on August 4, 1911 in a village in Western Ukraine, he is Greek-Catholic; finished 8 grades of the village school; his father was the wealthiest man in the village; Sam had 2 brothers, one of whom was killed by the Poles in 1947; he came to Canada in 1937; relations between Ukrainians and Poles; Halyts’ka armiia; his father was in Austrian army; relations between Jews and Ukrainians; Pacification events; Lashin belonged to OUN, Hrabets’ (??) involved him in OUN; Sam arrested by Poles; leaving for Canada.

Part 2: Leaving for Canada; his brother went to Canada in 1927 and helped him; way to Canada: Gdynia - London - Halifax; in Winnipeg (meeting his brother on a farm); getting a job with a friend for a Lumber company (??); company sending him to school; going to a Catholic school.

Part 3: Hard life in Canada; his wife is Bronislava Tatewich (??), born in Canada; married in 1940; getting a contract job at an armor plant (??); became a Canadian citizen in 1948; Robitnychyi Dim, Narodnyi Dim; Ukrainian Communists; Strilets’ka Hromada after the WWII; UNO Hall created in 1947-48; Het’mantsi; UNO Hall out of a Japanese temple; DPs, Banderivtsi vs Mel’nykivtsi; Liha Vyzvolennia; frictions between the Nationalists and Ukrainian church (“Natsia ponad use!”).

Part 4: UNO’s membership; CUC creation; future of Ukrainians in Canada.

Kurdydyk, Anatol
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c119 · Item · 20 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on July 24, 1905; his father was a Ukrainian priest; Anatol was the oldest of 7 children; father died of typhus soon after the WWI when Anatol was 14; after school, he studied at a bursa and was very poor; was composing poetry early in life - published his first works while at the 8 Grade; was multilingual; was arrested and wrote poetry in a prison; Bohdan Pidhainyi (???); Mykola Romanovych (??); belonged to a partisan Plast organization (and arrested for it); UPA; Ukrains’ka viis’kova orhanizatsia; Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; poet Chushko (??); Communist and Nationalist circles in classes; Anatol hang political leaflets; had good grades and enrolled in Law studies; was conscripted in the army and was serving for the kasovyi starshyna (??); publishing his poems in the Ukrainian press (Novyi chas, 1928); his book The Land (1964).

Part 2: Arrest and a prison in Berezhany; starving in protest; OUN; gymnasium hard life, earning money by writing; studies at the Lviv University; working at the newspapers, censorship; Halychyna population supporting OUN; Communists and Soviet power; OUN ideology and general political situation; OUN and Jews; him being arrested by Polish army in 1927; Druzhyny ukrains’kykh natsionalistiv’s methods; OUN network; Kokhan, UNDO (??); Sokal’shchyna - bastion natsionalizmu; Paliy (??) - UNO; Romaniv in Sokal’; Kurdydyk was wounded and transferred to Ukrainian lands under Germans; Poles and Jews; a prison in Korostiv (??).

Kupchak, Alex
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c118 · Item · 1 Apr. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on March 14, 1919 in a village of Kupchakivka (??), Subcarpathia; his father was a member of Chytal’nia; his father served in the Austrian army and fought on various fronts; Ukrainians and Poles living next to each other; Pacification events; relations between Ukrainians and Jews; his school was built under Poland - anti-Ukrainian attitudes of teachers; his father died and left many debts, Alex had to work hard and pay those off; went to attend a revolutionary course (??) in Mykulychyn in 1937, then in Verkhovyna.

Part 2: Germans annexing the Sudetes; Transcarpathian Sichovi stril’tsi; he came back after finishing his studies; in 1939 the Poles ran away and Soviets came, a Jew, Reich coming to organize life in his village; organizing the local militsia; repressions; Alex ran away, crossed the border to Poland on the San River; getting to a refugee camp in Cracow under Germans; signed up for work in Germany and got to Bransbaid (???) (thousands of workers in a camp there building planes); then moved to Berlin, got a job in a publishing house (??); Alex was a zv’azkovyi in Berlin for a nationalist organization (??); in location Marionfild (??) was a students’ meeting.

Konopka, Olga
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c109 · Item · 18 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Born on July 14 (??) 1906 in a village of Pidhorody (??), Rohatyn povit; she is Greek-Catholic; her father was a farmer but her mother’s brothers were judges and priests; Olga finished school and started a gymnasium when her father died; she was an amature artist and also sang in a church choir; persecution of Ukrainian language; came to Canada in 1930; worked in a cooperatyv; Prosvita; Pacification in Western Ukraine; went to Canada through England and Germany; UNO; married in 1930; sent her children to a Ukrainian school; in 1933 she joined the OUN in Canada; Samostiinyky and BUC causing troubles for OUN; Het’mantsi; Kormanevych (??); Kapustians’kyi (??); Fr Pelekh; discrimination against Ukrainians in Canada; UNO (??) Hall; women’s section in UNO; Kosar and his attitudes toward DPs; influence of DPs; Vynnychenko (??); Ridna shkola (50-60 students); Novyi shliakh moving to Winnipeg; CUC, Prof. Simpson; Prof. Phillips; Communists; why UNO “ob’iednannia”; future of Ukrainians in Canada.

Karpish, Peter
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c113-114 · Item · 27 Jul. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Ternopil’ oblast’, Terebovlia raion, a village of Kobylyky (now Zhovtneve), on December 30, 1901; his wife is Mariia Dukhnits’ka (??), she is from the same village; he went to a school in his village till 1914; in 1917 he was conscripted to the Ukrains’ka halyts’ka armiia; underwent military training in Ternopil’; escaped from a POW camp, was hiding; in 1921 was conscripted in the Polish Army, served 18 months in Chenstochow; in 1925 came home and left for Canada (Antwerp - St. John in New Brunswick); had relatives in Winnipeg and started working on a railway; then went to Fort Frances (???) to work at a paper plant (??); there his friend and relative Mykhailo Halandzhi (??) introduced him to Ukrainian organizations; Karpish in 1926 became a member of a political organization and of Ukrains’kyi farmers’kyi Dim; in 1928 went to Winnipeg for a 6 months course; Prosvita in St. Frances; cultural-education work of organizations in St. Frances; Andriy Dorets’kyi (??); Kaprish visited Ukraine 4 times, the most recent visit in 1979; discrimination towards Ukrainians at the beginning; after St. Frances went to Brantford, ON; after Depression began he went to a place Thor (??) near St. Catherine’s, was working in a cooperative; then moved to ?????Kilkanyk(????) in 1931-32; protests (“bread or job!”), arrests, and deportations; protests against Polonization of Western Ukraine, Tovarystvo dopomohy vyzvil’nomu rukhu na Zakhidnii Ukraini (ToDoVyRnaZU); dopomoha poterpilym vid poveni; Strilets’ka hromada; OUN-UNO; an attack on the Robitnychyi Dim; in 1933 Karpish was teaching in Ottawa; voting for the uprava; from 1934 through 1939 Karpish was in Sudbury; then the Central Committee sent him to Biltmore (??) where a Robitnychyi Dim was to be built; Central Committee: Ivan Boychuk (??) the Secretary, Popovych, Vavizivs’kyi (??), Shatul’s’kyi, etc); the Central Committee was later transferred from Winnipeg to Toronto; in Annie Molt Road (??) where Ukrainian farmers had own Farmers’ Organization.

Part 2: Ukrainian community in Ottawa; Strilets’ka hromada; WWII - Hitler-Stalin Pact; Kaprish was teaching in Geraldton (??); working in a Committee dopomohy syrotam, Chervoniy armii, got an award for that; Government confiscating Robitnychi Domy and transferring them to the Nationalists groups; he worked in a mine in Bidart (??), got there an ulcer and went to Winnipeg to recover; then worked in a cooperative, then in an evening school teaching Ukrainian language, music, and History; taking 6-months courses in Winnipeg in 1928 and 1936 (teachers: Tsymbay (??), Dr. Hrach (??), Petro Prokopchak): History of Ukraine, political economy, geography, music, arithmetics, grammar, ets; amature theater plays they staged (Natlka-Poltavka, Ne khody, Hrytsiu; comedies; then later Soviet plays); Shevchenko concert and other big name people’s concerts; 1st Soviet delegation came to Canada in 1945; Soviet Ambassador granting citizenship of Soviet Ukraine to Ukrainians in Canada; Communist Party in Canada; UNO and Banderivtsi causing troubles for Narodnyi Dim; DPs in Canada; CUC; Lobayivtsi group (???); Lobay; Matviy Popovych; Lobay was an editor of “Robitnychi visti”; problems with DPs; changing the name of Narodnyi Dim; Orhanizatsia vzajemodopomohy; Women’s section, Youth section in Robitnychyi Dim and their functions (Vynohradova, Tsukarenko, Moychukova); holod in Ukraine in 1933 (not Holodomor!); Karpats’ka Ukraina as a funny joke; Komitet slov’ian - Karpish was its secretary in 1954.

Part 3: Komitet slov’ian and its functions; 1st Delegation from Soviet Ukraine in the 1950s; Cold War events; Sudbury - International ???? Company; Robitnychyi Dim built in 1918 - initially was called “Prosvita im. Ivana Franka”; present-day activities; mandolin orchestra; Communist Party in Canada.

Hawrysh, Nicholas
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c100 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on December 12, 1912, in the area of Michyn (????); his father Vasyl’ Hawrysh went to Canada from Horodenka in 1909; his mother’s nee is Nazarkiv (??), from Horodenka; father first settled in Michyn (??) (where his other co-villagers have settled), bought a homestead, then brought over Nicholas’ mother and sister; the family was Greek-Catholic; Western Michyn (??) was predominantly Ukrainian, there also were Norwegians, French and Germans; organized life proliferated in 1909-1910; Chytal’nia in Michyn (??); subscribed newspapers from Ukraine and USA, “Holos”; his father brought his library from Ukraine with him; school in Michyn (??) was called after Myroslav Sichyns’kyi; theatre plays; Nicholas was a teacher; his teachers were mostly Englishmen but some were Ukrainians (Mr. Sklianka); Nicholas finished 11 grades and went to the Instytut (???) in Saskatoon; his father was among those who created that Institute; his father became Orthodox for political reasons; he came to Institute in 1930 when Stechyshyn was its Rector; after graduating Nicholas went back to Michyn (??); Institute history; membership in “Kameniari”.

Part 2: Rector Stechyshyn; separate sections for girls and guys in the Institute; newspapers in the Institute; students protests; WWII events, Hawrysh went to the army, was in England; meeting Panchuk in London in Ukrainian Service; Panchuk’s wife, Cherniavs’ka; Dr. Savchuk; Hawrysh returned to Canada (to Michyn (???)) in 1945; continued his teaching career in the “Carpathian School” (for 2 years); then went to Saskatoon; DPs and disappointment; Liha vyzvolennia; CUC, Prof. Pavliuchenko; Ukrainian Orthodox in Canada.

Gryschuk, Alex
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c098-099 · Item · 22 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in 1902 in the village of Toporivtsi, in Horelenka povit, Halychyna; his wife - Mariia Markovs’ka; he came to Canada on June 15, 1928; WWI events, occupation of Halychyna and Subcarpathia, Austrian army; he had 10 siblings; he returned from the army in 1925, married in 1927; Sotsialistychna radykal’na partiia; went to Canada with 2 his neighbours (Gdansk - Liverpool - London - Quebec), then via Winnipeg to Kryla(???); trip cost $180 + $50 “for the show”; then came to work to Prince Island - Jasek Morawsky(??); Ukrainian identity; Sichovi stril’tsi, Chytal’nia; going to Prince Island; Vasyl’ Vasylyniuk; hard manual labor on a construction of a mill (??).

Part 2: Hard work in a mine, was fired; coming to a town of Depres (??) in 1930; elections in 1930; working 75 miles way from Port Church (constructing roads), quitting; going to Winnipeg; Robitnycha orhanizatsia in Dupas (??) in 1930; Communists; his sister came to Canada in 1930; Vasyl’ Horobets’ (??); priests; his sister helped him to get a job; nationalists built their hall in Hudson Bay; back to working in a mine; Robitnychyi Dim (Vasyl’ Mykytiv (??), Ivan Markovs’kyi, Stefan Kryzh, Ivan Parastiuk, Vasyl’ Maiborod (??)), he was a secretary for a short time.

Part 3: Robitnychyi Dim, Communists; when Gryschuk was a Secretary, Vasyl’ Mandryk was the Head; women’s section of Robitnychyi Dim; WWII, Police suspecting Communists from their organization; unions, union strikes; Hutchinson (??), looking for a job in Timmins during the strike; elections at the Robitnychyi Dim; plays in the amature thatre; finding jobs for Communists; DPs; Konovalets’; WWII, Stalin’s Pact with Hitler; Skrypnyk; Gryschuk’s visit to Ukraine; strike in Timmins in 1953 (3 months long); a coop in Timmins; turning their Hall into a museum of Ukrainian culture.

Part 4: Narodnyi Dim; connections with other ethnic groups; local church (priest fled to the USA in 1936 after a scandal); history of religion: Bishop Iosyf Akutsynskyi (??); haiduky and turning Orthodox people into Catholics.

Gospodin, Andrew
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c095-097 · Item · 1 Dec. 1982 - 21 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Came to Canada from Czechoslovakia (was there in 1920) where he came while serving in the Ukrains’ka-Halyts’ka army; born on December 29, 1900 in a village of Pavushyrka (??) in the Chortkiv povit; went to school in his village, then in a gymnasium in Chortkiv, finished a Narodnyi Universytet in Czechoslovakia and a bookkeeping course of a Commercial Cooperative; came to Canada in 1923; there existed Narodnyi Dim, chytal’’nia Prosvita, Prosvita Institute; Bobers’kyi and Nazaruk collected money for the Ukrainian Government in Vienne; Bishop Nykyta Budka delegated Sushko to be an editor of the Kanadiis’”kyi ukrainets’; he had 2 brothers and a sister; his family was Greek-Catholic; was in the 13th regiment (polk) of the Ukrainian Army; worked in the Czech kantseliariia; Samostiinyky; UNO in 1932; Striletska Hromada; Dr. Kushnir; Vasylyshyn; Bachyns’kyi (??); Gospodin belonged to the Komitet dopomohy politvíazniam Ukrainy and lawyer Iefymyshchyn (??) as its Head; Svystun; Fr. Semchuk (??); writer Dmytro Hunkevych (??) and his book Evropa, Hitler i Ukraina” - gathering materials for it with Mandryka (??); Sushko & Labor Temple Association; Prof. Lutsyshyn; writer Irchan was an editor in Robitnychyi Dim; Kulyk (??); Orthodox church; BUC in 1934, Sheptyts’kyi; Fr. Trukh, Fr. Orachko (was ultimately sent away from Canada); Fr. Semchuk (??); SUS, Mandryka, issuing “Holos”; Chytal’nia (appeared in 1925).

Part 2: Chytal’nia; Samostiinyky, SUS, Dr. Pohoretskyi (??); UNO; Doroshenko coming to Winnipeg; Sushko coming to Winnipeg; Ukrains’ka Natsional’na Rada (included 18 organizations) issuing “Visnyk”, Gospodin giving lectures there on cooperation; CUC and Kosar; Tovarystvo ukrains’koi kul’tury (Mandryka was the Head, Gospodin was a secretary); creation of CUC; Kosar; Vasylyshyn; Mandryka; Prof. Simpson (??); Prof. Pavliuchenko in Saskatoon; Stechyshyn (??) the editor of Ukrains’kyi holos; Datskiv (??) het’manets’, was a secretary in the CUC; Bobers’kyi; Kushnir; Sheptyts’kyi choosing his successor; Zahaliichuk (??) - holova Tovarystva uchiteliv and a CUC secretary; Kysylevs’kyi (??); Vasyl’ Svystun (??)and his relations with the Communists; Ms. Mandryka (??) and the Relief Fund.

Part 3: Bachyns’kyi (??) the Head of the local CUC (??); Fifth column; Ukrainian-Canadian Services Association (??); Tsentral’ne dopomohove biuro in England; Stets’ko’s politics; Kushnir; CUC; Bur’ianyk (??); CUC after the end of the WWII; UPA; CUC and BUC (??), Bashuk (??); Chytal’nia; Strilets’ka hromada; Gospodin helping UNO with their building; Kosar, Vasylyshyn and UNO, Tarnavets’kyi (??); future of Ukrainians in Canada; Communists; his wife - Mariia Troian (??) from Winnipeg; DPs; UNO vs Het’mantsi; Prof. Kyslytsia (??); Svystun; Vasylyshyn; Kosar.

Part 4: Creating BUC (??) in Canada as a brunch of the Catholic institution; Chytal’nia’s fight; Fr. Horachko (??) sent away from Canada; Holovko (??) sent in as a secretary; Bishop Budka; Fr. Semchuk (??) - the 1st Head of CUC, too much of a Catholic; Fr. Shums’kyi (??); Budka and his 2 letters; Orthodox community fighting Catholics; Bobers’kyi; Ivan Petroshevych (??) the 1st cooperator, was sent to Paris; Mandryka (??) in CUC; Shapoval the fanatic; viis’kovyi zhurnal “Ukrains’kyi skytalets’” published in Czechoslovakia, with memoirs; Mandryka and DPs; CUC Congress in 1942; Melnychuk - the Head of the local BUC (??); Fr. Kushnir had democratic views; Chytal’nia and fights around it, once had over 100 members, activities, Poles visiting Chytal’nia.

Part 5: Chytal’nia activities; UNO asking Gospodin about help for their Hall; Mr. Kokhan (??) centralized CUC; Stavchevs’kyi (??); Kokhan a good diplomat; Tovarystvo ukrains’kykh uchyteliv; Vasyl’ Trukh (??); Horiachko (??); a discussion with Trukh (??) in 1934; Orthodox church; his friends returning from Czechoslovakia to USSR; Dr. Stakhiv (??); future of Ukrainians in Canada; Gospodin’s publications in journals (penname A. Hermes); him being for 12 years in Komitet dopomohy politv’iazniam - a letter from Fr. Kulyts’kyi (??); his huge work in Czechoslovakia; editor Pohoretskyi (??); Vasyl’ Topol’nyts’kyi; Dr. Huliay (??) - all were dismissed later.

Gayowsky, Irene
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c094 · Item · 26 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Waluk, was born in Ukraine, came to Canada in 1910 when she was almost 6 ; before that her sister Julia Waluk came to Canada in 1908; her sister Natasha (??) came in 1909; then her father Prokopiy Waluk and her mother Ahafiya Waluk, and sister Ann and herself came; they came to Brandon; Irene attended a Roman-Catholic day school, then went to Brandon Institute, became a teacher in the country; experience at the amature theatre; hard life of teachers; first plans for marriage did not materialize because of the religious differences, then she married in 1927 Gayowsky who was a teacher of Ukrainian; changing schools; in 1934 came to Winnipeg; WWI - her was considered an alien and had to report, problems with documents; religion and Ukrainianness; teaching Ukrainian at schools; Labor Temple in Brandon; Orthodox church; her husband got a position with the Institute of Prosvita in 1934; in 1940 they taught at the Ukrainian National Association school; Taras Verbyts’kyi (??) - a Head of choir; Zankovets’kyi (??); in 1916 a Ukrainian school started; children’s mandolin orchestra; students’ club; Women’s group in 1926; Kul’turno-osvitnii komitet.

Part 2: Doroshenko - the book editor; Tracz; Oleksa Pasichniak (??) was in charge of Ridna shkola; Dr. Dyma (??); Prof. Koshets’; CUC; did not teach Ukrainian History at the school; Irene’s husband went to Ukraine after Independence; Kosar; Vasylyshyn (??); Fond dopomohy; Dr. Dackiw; Kokhan (??) - executive director; rev. Sawchuk; DPs and their attitude towards Ukrainians in Canada; opposition to joining CUC; Kushnir; Savchuk; Hlynka.

Forwyn, Bohdan
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c013.B-014 · Item · 5 Feb. - 28 Mar. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Valentyn Moroz; UNO concerts; 50th Anniversary of Famine in Ukraine; local Hall activities; Ukrainian miners; concerts in the local hall; May Day celebration; WWII, helping efforts; Benevolent Workers Association; his organization losing its Ukrainian component; following events in Ukraine; Labor Hall aka Canadian-Ukrainian Cultural Centre; Ukrainian schools; contacts with other ethnic groups, participating in the events of Sudbury Folk Arts Council; History book on Ukrainian community in Sudbury; volunteers coming from Winnipeg.

Part 2: Born in Bukovyna in 1900. His father died in 1916. He came to Canada in 1924. Greek-Catholic faith. Had a family of 5. His father was a deacon in their village. The village had a Chytal’nia. His mother divorced and came to Canada in 1913, to stay with her brother, who was a railroad worker, in Rovostock (???). In 1920 he joined the Ukrainian mission. Romanian rule in Bukovyna. When he was conscripted in a Romanian army, he worked in the head office (kantseliaria) with documents. Arrived in Halifax and traveled to Rovostock (????) for over a week. Worked for CPR. Later moved to Vancouver with his mother. In 1926 went to Alaska to be a cook assistant. Two Ukrainian organizations in those years in Vancouver: Communists and Tovarystvo “Prosvita” (started in 1923) (Petro Zharyi (??) and Ropchak (???)). Father Savchuk was coming several times a year to have Orthodox services. The first permanent Orthodox priest came in 1945-46 - Father Symchych. Both Catholic and Orthodox communities appeared in 1937. Strilets’ka Hromada. UNO. Liha vyzvolennia vs. UNO. Tovarystvo Narodnyi dim. Samostiinyky.

Part 3: Samostiinyky; local Ukrainian Communists and confiscation of their Hall; CUC; DPs and community; Ukrainians and other ethnicities; future of the Ukrainian community.

Dubas, Michael
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c057 · Item · 16 Dec. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in 1914 in Halychyna, in a town between Lviv and Ternopil; his father was a POW during the WWI and died soon after release; mother remarried a man with the same last name (Dubas), who went to Canada in 1926, while Michael, his mother and half-sister joined him in 1931; they went on a Samara ship (Warsaw - Belgium - Paris - New York - Montreal - ?????); 1929- Pacification in Halychyna; Semenchiv (??) in Ukrainian community in Canada, helping Karpatska Ukraina; Ukrainians in concentration camps; he is Ukrainian Catholic; local Communists, Mrs. Zavads’ka (??); Dubas’s 5 children; his wife’s (nee - Mykolaichuk); relations of Ukrainians with the French and English in Canada; Bohdan Mykytiuk (??); WWII, Dubas’s brother was in the army; DPs.

Part 2: DPs; Fr. Kravchuk (??); Dubas’ children and Ukrainian identity.

Derewlany, Danylo
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c054-055 · Item · 5 May. 1983
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Part 1: Born in 1897 (??), in the village of Khraplychi near Peremyshl’; went to school in the village; in 1914, he went to Peremyshl’; nee of his wife - Ol’ha Platsko (??) from Rus’ka Rava. He had 4 brothers; in 1914, (he was 16) went to the Austrian army, to the front; was in the Russian front, in Serbia; his brother was in the Ukrainian army; Sichovi stril’tsi; fighting with the Poles; colonel Fedorovych; Bolsheviks; Skoropads’kyi; ending up in Czechoslovakia, in a camp.

Part 2: Staying in Czechoslovakia; when Poles were chased away from Halychyna they started coming back home from Czechoslovakia; pidpil’na viis’kova orhanizatsia; went to Canada in 1927 (Lviv - Warsaw - Gdansk - ???? - Quebec - Winnipeg); working on a farm near Winnipeg; then went to a farm in Saskatchewan; then went to Windsor (???); growing tobacco (??); tobacco prices during Depression; he bought a farm (42.5 acres) for $6000 cash; Catholic church; buying a church building for $50; a member of the Strilets’ka hromada.

Part 3: Strilets’ka hromada; Savchuk; no Catholic church at that time - coming priests; iepyskop Budka; Sushko; Kosar; Haitai (??); Oleksa Hryhorovych; Orthodox church; Ivan Franko Club; attitudes of Ukrainians towards Jews; WWII; Prof. Simpson; creation of CUC in 1941; Kosar; Borots’kyi (??).

Part 4: UPA; Orthodox church; mel’nykivtsi; came to Wellington (??) in 1937 (??); Communists; amature theatre plays; Fr. Levyts’kyi’s (??) visit; Dakash (??); Bandera; Catholics vs Orthodox fights.

Chyz, R.J.
CA BMUFA 0021-C-D-2008.024.c026-027 · Item · 25 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on February 13, 1908 in Lviv. His father was an engineer. His maternal grandfather Yaremkevych was a priest. Chyz went to a Ukrainian gymnasium in Lviv. In 1923, his mother died, father remarried and moved to Sokal’. There he finished a Ukrainian gymnasium. Pacification began and he left for Canada in November of 1930. He had a brother in Winnipeg and an uncle in Sokal, Saskatchewan. His rout: Gdynia - London - Liverpool - Quebec - Winnipeg - Saskatchewan. He contacted the Bishop of Canada and got his invitation to come to Edmonton study theology in a seminary. Classes in St. Josaphat seminary were in English. After graduating from the seminary, he went to Winnipeg and was ordained. Winnipeg as the centre of Ukrainian life; Father Savchyk from parafia Sv. Pokrovy; church services and Burtnyk (???); Communists among farmers; WWII.

Part 2: Relations between Ukrainians and Poles; Het’mantsi; UNO; Ukrainian parachutist Shun’; Ukrainian communities on farms and in Edmonton; ottsi Vasyliany; Fr. Zhulyns’kyi (???) and a conflict with Catholics; UNO and its conflicts with the Catholic church; Ukrainian nationalists and church; new calendar vs old calendar fights; DPs; pro-Hitler sentiments; CUC.

Part 3: Father Kushnir as the Head of CUC; Chyz’s places of work as a priest; Fr. Kovtsev (??); Calgary parish in 1938; Winnipeg parish in 1942; Communists among Ukrainian believers; Fr. Servetnyk; Fr. Bozhyk (??); Thunder Bay parish; Kitchener parish; Fr. Mykhailo Blazhenko; Ridna Shkola in Kitchener; the church was built there in 1926; Fr. Vasyl’ Charnyi (???); Ukrainian church in Brandfort; Fr. Humeniuk.

Bilecki, Anthony
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c012 · Item · 3 Dec. 1982
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Part 1: WWII, Poland, USSR, Hitler; Fascism vs Communism; arrest and internment of Bilecki in July 1940; life in the internment camp; some inmates were transferred to Frederickton, some - to Petawawa (??). AUC. WBA. SS Halychyna combatants. League of Liberation of Ukraine.

Part 2: Born in Kolomyia on January 3, 1914. Came to Canada with parents and siblings in 1922. Came to Drumheller, AB. Father worked in a mine; when that was closed the family moved to Montreal. He stayed in Montreal from 1929 till 1936. In 1936 Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (former Ukrainian Labor Farmer Temple Association, ULFTA) provided an educational course in journalism, and Bilecki attended it. Was on an editorial board of People’s Gazette (Ukrainian daily). Demonstrations in 1931 in Montreal against Polish rule in Western Ukraine. Kobzei & Labai. In 1936 he moved to Winnipeg. Classes and teachers at the course that Bilecky attended: Peter Prokop, Hutsuliak (music teacher), Kachmarovskyi (??); life during the course. Prokopchyk (???), Shatulsky and People’s Gazette. People’s Gazette and other Ukrainian papers. Canadian authorities closed the paper during WWII.