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Gordon Gordey documents his dance concepts and libretto, including performance photographs, for the creation of the original folk dance theatre work Shumka’s Cinderella. Shumka’s Cinderella is rooted in Ukrainian regional dance style, the poetry of folk melodies, the spirit of the rise of Ukrainian nobility, the vibrant paintbrush of village arts, and the expressive energy of the European Baroque period. This dance theatre work was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Shumka’s Cinderella has had over 50 major performances across Canada, two tours to China, and major performances in Ukraine.

First Draft Concept/Libretto was created in 1996.
The Premiere Performance, Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary: March 3, 2000.

The video for Voices of the Silenced was directed by Gordon Gordey for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Voices of the Silenced is a contemporary Ukrainian Canadian narrative folk dance theatre work with video exploring the unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as “enemy aliens” in Canada during WWI. These “enemy aliens” were subjected to having to carry registration identity papers, often pay monthly registration fees, and were under constant surveillance. Of the 80,000 who were registered under the authority of the Act, 8,579 were deemed: “enemy aliens”. The majority of “enemy aliens” were Ukrainians and were arrested and interned in 26 makeshift encampments located mostly in Canada’s frontier hinterlands. They were forced into hard labour clearing land for roads, building bridges, and building the railway.

Voices of the Silenced - Premiere Performance, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton: November 17, 2012.

This series contains letters, passports, and other textual documents relating to Anna Zabolotna Kuryliw and Wasyl (Bill) Kuryliw.

File consists of newspaper/journal pages and programs with Dobrolige’s works; inspiration works

Klid discusses smart cards (cards containing chips such as, credit cards).

The series consists of letters, reviews, minutes, bulletins, etc. of the following organizations:

• Ukrainian Language Association [later: Ukrainian Lang. Assoc. of the Alberta Modern Lang. Council (Alberta Teachers' Assoc.)]
• Ukrainian Canadian Teachers' Association
• Ukrainian Language Teachers' Organization
• Alberta Ethnic Language Teachers' Association
• Council of Ukrainian Schools (Рада української школи в Канаді, later - Ukrainian Educational Council of Canada) (1970-1982)
• Ukrainian Self-Reliance League
• Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada, provincial executive
• Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta
• North and South Alberta Heritage Language Association
• Alberta Cultural Heritage Council
• Ukrainian Canadian Committee

In addition, the series contains:

• clippings of newspaper publications by Fiona Pelech,
• newspaper clippings about multiculturalism and bilingual education by other authors
• Fiona Pelech's correspondence
• Fiona Pelech's to do lists containing notes on Ukrainian community life, events, and meetings, etc.
• other materials

Six audiocassettes with recordings of the Ukrainian Self-Reliance League meeting on Aug 19-20, 1989 (3 cassettes) and Alberta Ethnic Language Teachers' Association meetings (including constitution debates, 2 cassettes); one cassette with a meeting of unknown organization.

The series consists of seven self-published books on history of families whose ancestors immigrated from Bukovyna, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The file consists of three certificates of Birth and Baptism of Anna Melnychuk and Adam Klymchuk.

The series consists of 14 photos. It includes photos prior to 1932, as well as Melnychuk and Klymchuk family photos.

1. Promova D-ra Volodymyra Bachyns'koho, delehata Staroho Kraiu, dnia 6-ho chervnia, 1925, na naradi v Kanori, Sask.
2. Konstantyn Bida. "Relihijni problemy v naukovij tvorchosti Ivana Franka." 1956.
3. Perto and Rosalia Bociak. [Biography]
4. Bohdan R. Bociurkiw. "Bilingualism and Biculturalism as Seen by Western Canadians of Other Ethnic Origins."
5. Vasyl' Tomyn, M.L.A. Svitove polozhennia j ukraintsi v Kanadi.
   Bratstvo Ukraintsiv Katolykiv Apostol's'koho Ekzarkhatu Zakhidnoї Kanady. XII-yi zїzd BUK, shcho vidbuvsia 4 i 5. IV. 1951 r. v Edmontoni. 6. Bratstvo Ukr. Katolykiv (materiialy do vidch.).
6. Mykola Buduliak-Sharyhin rozpovidaie na voli. Presove povidamlennia. 12 hrudnia 1978 r.
7. 75 - litnii iuvilei Prof. Iuliiana Butsmaniuka.
8. Bohdan R. Bociurkiw. "Cleaning the road to Communism . The resurgence of the Military Atheism in the the Soviet Union."1963

Files 7-16 contain personal letters written by Ivan Lahola to Chuiko, Dr. Klymyshyn, his daughter Lida Lahola, his son Roman Lahola, V. Makar, Okipniuk, P. Savaryn, Soreiko, and correspondence to his relatives in Ukraine.
Files 17-25 contain personal letters written to Ivan Lahola from various individuals.
Individuals include Petro B. Boian, Wladyslaw Fortuna, Mykola Iclymyshyn, Yurij Kowalsky, S. Lewyckyj, Michael Kowalsky, Hryhorii Naniak, Roman Lahola, Mychailp Babii, M. Czujko, Peter Dackiw, Ivor Dent, Bohdan Kcjor, and more.
Files 26-34 contain business letters written to Ivan Lahola from the Dnipro Choir of Edmonton, the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, Ukrainian War Veterans' Assn. of Canada, World Congress of Free Ukrainians, Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine, World Congress of Free Ukrainians, Ukrainian Free University Foundation Inc., National Tribune, International Congress of Political Prisoners of Communist Regimes, SUM, PLAST, Ukrainian Credit Union, Taras Shevchenko Foundation, and more.

Yelena Cherweniuk's (the wife of Petro Yakemchuk) two brothers George and Nikola Cherweniuk followed their sister to Canada (1912). George Cherweniuk left a wife (whom he later divorced) and a family behind in Bukovina. Two brothers worked together for a time in Winnipeg, Manitoba, saving money for a farm, however, Nikola elected to return to his homeland, leaving behind his share of the money in return for George's farm in Ukraine. George bough a farm near his sister Yelena, in Andrew. He married Magdelena Fedorak, sister of Lena Fedorak (who became Vasil Yakemchuk's wife). Unfortunately, she died with their infant daughter in childbirth, after which, George moved to Smoky Lake, Alberta.

George Cherweniuk married Domka Wedenivski, who journeyed to Canada by herself in 1926. Her uncle, Sam, owned a hotel in Smoky Lake, Alberta, and she worked there for three years until she met George.

This file consists of seven items collected in Shandro, Alberta.