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Wowk, Lev
CA BMUFA 0021-T-W-2008.024.c200-201 · Item · 19 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on July 14, 1914 (??) in a village of Myrnovets’ (??), Ternopil’ region; Greek-Catholic; his father participated in vyzvol’ni zmahannia; returned from a POW camp in 1921, and in 1928 went to Canada; Lev went to Canada in 1930 (Warsaw - Gdynia - ???); found a job of a simster (??); Strilets’ka Hromada; protses Romana Bidy (??); reasons for Ukrainian emigration; creating UNO in Toronto, Kosar, Pavliuchenko, Guliai (??), Zelenyi, Vasylyshyn, Hryhorovych, Hlynka; Kupchenko (??); Mykyta Romaniuk (??); Romaniuk; Kornylo Magera (??); Karpats’ka Ukraina; Aviation school (??); Stephan Pavliuk, Ievhen Stavryk, Tarnovyi (??) came in 1934, organizing a Telegraph School (??).

Part 2: The Telegraph School (??); Pavliuk and Tarnovyi left; then Oleksa Shestovs’kyi (??), Zalishchuk (??), Ambroziy Shestovs’kyi (??), Mykhailo Kalyniuk (??) - created in 1937 an aviation school (??); Petro Antokhii (??) donated his own commercial airplane; when WWII started, Zalishchuk and Ladyka were the first instructors in the Canadian Air Forces; 14 pilots from that school joined the Air Forces; UNO vs Het’mantsi; Bosyi (??); Tracy Phillips; UNO vs BUC; Fr. Kushnir; creation of CUC; SUS; Tracy Phillips; Kushnir & Kosar; Stechyshyn; Savchuk; Vasyl Burianyk (??); Ruryk (??); DPs; Samostiinyky & DPs; MUN; Kosar; Pavliuchenko; Tracy Phillips; George Simpson; Kirkconnell (??); CUC creation was prompted by the government.

Part 3: Choosing the Head of CUC; 1st and 2nd Congresses of CUC; 1946 - CUC Congress in Toronto; Wowk was in Army in 1945; confiscation of the Communist properties; discussing during the Congress what to do with the DPs; Panchuk; Froliak; Wowk wrote Froliak’s speech for the 1st Congress; Kokhan and CUC; Kushnir; Vasylyshyn and Dopomohovyi Fond in Europe; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi (??)-Davydovych (??)-Kysylevs’kyi (??); Turans’kyi (??) created the Club Ukrains’kykh voiakiv in London, not Panchuk.

Part 4: Panchuk; Davydovych from UNO; Dr. K; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi from OUN; Novyi shliakh moving from Edmonton to Saskatoon; DPs & Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy, banderivtsi vs melnykivtsi; Zahariichuk (??); Kokhan (??); Ivanchuk; Mandryka (??); Vasylyshyn; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO, Pohorets’kyi, Yuzyk; Kosar was negative towards it.

Olynyk, Stephen
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c214 · Item · 31 May 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on July 21, 1923 in Montreal; his wife is Olga Stanko; he is Ukrainian Catholic; his parents came to Canada in 1907; he is the Mayor since November 6, 1978; he was a Police officer for 28 years; Ukrainian school, teacher Kovaliv (??); Het’mantsi; Skoropads’kyi’s visit; WWI, refugees; Associated United Ukrainians of Canada, Federation of Russian Canadians; Prosvita; Communists and their Temple Association; drama groups - plays from Ukraine; Avramenko’s film “Natalka-poltavka”; Karpats’ka Ukraina; 1952 - anti-Communist squad, John Buchun - Police Lieutenant (??) fighting the Communists, his son being infiltrated into the Communist circles; USSR raising money in Canada for their spies activities; a Moscow scheme with the Taras Shevchenko monument in Toronto; Svystun in Montreal; during WWII he served in Canada, Ukrainian Canadians in the Air Forces; Priests: Fr. Tymochko (??); Fr. Paul Hemko (??); Fr. Jean (??); Fr. Pasichnyk; Fr. Kushnir; Het’mantsi dissolving in Montreal before WWII; he belonged to the Ukrainian Businessmen and Professional Association.

Part 2: Olynyk’s parish leaders: Zvyzdovych (??) (Olynyk’s godfather); George Chaika (??); Konstantine Stanovich (??); Prosvita Hall was sold; DPs and stories about ungrateful DPs; being elected as a Mayor in 1978, re-elected in 1982; Wagner; Mulrooney (??); his activities as a Mayor, English language in the French Province, efficient savings for the city budget; his father came to Canada from Kryvtsia, Borshchiv povit, and his mother was born in Hermetivka (??); his wife was born in Montreal.

Nahorniak, Nick
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c215 · Item · 2 Jun. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on November 28, 1911 in Montreal; his parents came to Canada in 1910 from Halychyna; they lived in Sidney for 10 years in coal mines, but then moved to Montreal; Ukrainian Catholic Church; Fr. John; Het’mantsi Club; St. Jean parade (??); Prosvita; Communists in Sidney; Fr. Krasyts’kyi (??); UNO appeared in Montreal; Fr. Joan (??); Nick went to Army in 1943, was overseas; Marunchak; Nick worked in a slaughterhouse; his wife is Nikeferuk (??), Veronica; DPs; Church celebrations; Nick belongs to the Canadian Ukrainian Legion; Golden Age Club (its Head is Havryliuk (?)); Fr. Haimenovych (??).

Mykytiuk, Bogdan A.
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c216 · Item · 25 Jan. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on August 6, 1929 in Canada; his father came around 1912-1913 to Winnipeg and then brought his wife in 1927; Ivan Palka; Mrs. Jennice; Andrew Sementiuk (??) - mill workers; dangerous jobs; 1926-27 - second wave of Ukrainian immigrants; the Rudyks; the Shtokols; he is Orthodox; Fr. Nebesnyi (??); Dyviziinyky from Italy; Ukrainians-French people relations; Savchuk’s visit; Bohdan Dubas (??); women helping Ukrainians overseas; Montese (??) POW camp; Makitra (??); moving to Toronto in 1948; DPs; UNO Hall; his wife is Canadian-born; Legion Hall.

Podopryhora, Theodor Fred
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c217-219 · Item · 25 Jun. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Real name is Fedir Petrovych Podopryhora; born on March 3, 1912 in a village of Burtky, Kyiv region (huberniia); then parents moved to the Kherson region; he is Orthodox; his wife’s name is Kylyna Samiilivna Hudzenko, she was born is a nearby village, Remintarivka (Kyiv region); he had 13 siblings; his 2 brothers were killed in the WWI; his uncles was a General Secretary in the Tsentral’na Rada, he was killed in 1919; villagers then believed the Bolsheviks’ promises; NEP in the 1920s; his father was elected a zastupnyk starosty volosti; his brother had to be conscripted to the Bolshevik Army but was killed the chekists, Sen’ka Pogorelyi killed his father in 1923; NEP and lands; his mother died of grief in 1928; everything was in Ukrainian - Ukrainization Period; Ukrainian Church; his mother’s role in Theodor’s religious and overall development; till 1928 only local villagers were in power, not Communists; CheKa; Russians as “nahabni zhebraky”; relations between Ukrainians and Jews; 1927 - the beginning of changes, cooperation.

Part 2: Cooperation; no Communists in Theodor’s village till 1928; in 1925, were organized MTT (mashynno-traktorne tovarystvo); Tovarystvo “Suspil’na zemel’na obrobka”; villages being forced to joining the kolhosp; Soviet propaganda; Theodor was a batrak in 1928, joined the kolhosp in 1929, married in 1930; radhosp im. Kosiora was organized in his region; Holodomor circumstances in Kyiv region, Kirovohrad, Donbas; cannibalism cases.

Part 3: Holodomor, cannibalism; his life in the Donbas; Spring of 1932 - the beginning of the famine; mass media on the famine; Russification after the Holodomor; Skrypnyk’s suicide; being on a road during the famine; ethnically mixed Ukraine; Ukrainian Army, contacts with banderivtsi; Theodor left his village for Germany; life under German occupation; partizans, Kalashnyk.

Part 4: Return of the Red Army; Theodor fled away (through German colonies in Bessarabia and Romania); propaganda about UPA; Halychyna Division; Theodor was in Munich when the WWII ended; DP camps in Austria; Ukrainian camps in Salzburg; escaping the Soviet zone of occupation and return to the USSR; Fr Fotiy (??); bandarivtsi, Ivaniuk as a holova taborovoi rady; Fr. Savchuk; banderivtsi fighting mel’nykivtsi in the camp; Pundyk (now in Winnipeg); sotnyk Herasymenko, Pestushko; Volyniak; publishing “Promin’” in the first camp; Theodor left the camp for Venezuela in 1947 and lived there till 1955, organizing a Ukrainian colony there, 15 families; Mykola Livyts’kyi; leaving for Canada in July 1955, settled in London, ON; he belongs to CUC; older immigrants, Tomyn (??); Chaikivs’kyi (??); SUZHERO (??); halychany’s attitudes toward him; SUS; Fr. Fedir Kysyliuk - Orthodox priest; an Orthodox church built under Fr. Debryn (??) in 1963 while land was bought under Fr. Hutsuliak; Odyn (??); Ivan Franko Club - Theodor was its member; Tatsiuk (??).

Part 5: Court case RE: the Club money; old and new immigrants’ membership; CUC - Theodor is a Holova kontrol’noi komisii; CUC Statuty; Orthodox community in London; Ukrainian community in Canada, Ukrainian nationalism; mel’nykivtsi.

Poplawetz, Wasyl
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c220 · Item · 19 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on December 4, 1913 in a village of Boberka, Turka district; finished a Naridna shkola in his village; he had a brother (died in 1943 in Germany) and a sister (stayed at home); Pacification in a neighboring village Zhupaly, that village was burnt down by the Polish Army in 1939; chytal’nia Prosvita in his village, subscribing to the “Novyi chas” magazine; OUN; protses Basarabova (??), Hlushko (??); Bandera as one of many leaders; Danylyshyn, Bilas - leaders; Holodomor; WWII, Germans as defenders from the Communists; Wasyl was in Polish Army in 1936-1937, then later he married; his wife is Anna Pahulych; 1941, June 1930, banderivtsi; rozkol OUN; Wasyl left Ukraine in 1944 for Germany (through Transcarpathia, Budapest, Austria); helping UPA; Senyk, banderivtsi vs. mel’nykivtsi; refugee camps in the British zone; Wasyl sympathized mel’nykivtsi; banderivtsi fighting mel’nykivtsi in the DP camps; physical altercations at the DP camps; Wasyl was delivering newspapers “Vil’na Ukraina”, various magazines; he went to Canada on a boat “General Shtugis” (??), from Bremen to Halifax, then to Piments (??); Pashchyn (??), working in a mine; Fr. Horoshko; working in Holter (??) till 1968; Voznyi (??); Kaniuk (??); UNO; samostiinyky in Kirkland; Zavaliy (??); Pylyp Migus (??); Hrytsyshyn; Pinkovs’kyi (??); Catholic Church in Kirkland.

Part 2: Fr. Horoshko in Kirkland; Wasyl refusing to spovidatysia to Fr. Horoshko because of the priest’s refusal to do that for the Orthodox; Communists Hall; Lavreniv (??) and dances in 1970; UNO decline in 1965 - people living Kirkland; Mrs. Didyk and DPs; CUC in Kirkland Lake in about 1970, secretly organized by Fr. Chaika; future of the Ukrainian diaspora; Vzaiemopomich, Samoilenko.

Pukesh, William
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c221-222 · Item · 21 - 27 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Real name - Vasyl’ Pukish, born on December 11, 1903 in Kalush; Greek-Catholic; he had 4 brothers and a sister; his father and brother went to the WWI; war with Poland; he joined a church choir for 2 years; was conscripted to the Polish Army (infantry); he came to Canada in 1927 (Gdynia - Quebec); staying in Winnipeg, Regina; working at a CPR Hotel; Communist Hall in Regina; Dr. Pavliuchenko; General Kapustians’kyi (??); Strilets’ka hromada: Mykhailo Babiy (??); Topol’nyts’kyi (??); Hrytsei (??); his wife - Ol’ha Druzhkova, was born in USA; they married in 1929; Strilets’ka hromada was formed in 1929; conference in Saskatoon in 1934 (1935?)- Kurmanovych, Pavliuchenko, Yanovs’kyi (??); Het’mantsi in Regina; Zaharuk from UNO; UNO Hall; discrimination against Ukrainians.

Part 2: Choir; Ukrainian weddings in Canada; Senyk Hrybivs’kyi (??); Colonel Sushko (??); General Kurmanovych (??); UNO creation; UNO Heads - Hryhorovych, Kosar; Voinarovych (??); Holodomor; WWII, sentiments about Germans; William moved from Regina to Toronto in 1941; working at a hotel; owning a store; joining Strilets’ka hromada in Toronto; Fr. Konovets’kyi (??); Fr. Lepskyi (??); Fr. Kahurs’kyi (??); Fr. Denesh (??); Kosar stopped being the Head of UNO in 1954 (?).

Part 3: Komitet uzdorovlennia UNO; Pohorets’kyi (Editor); moving CUC to Toronto; building a new church; Fr. Denesh (??); Fr. Kamenets’kyi (??).

Pysklywec, Nick
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c223-224 · Item · 21 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on December 19, 1898 in a village of Trebukhivtsi (now “Druzhba”), Ternopil region; Buchach povit; he came to Canada in May 1928, to Quebec, then to Saskatoon; WWI - he was a soldier in Russian Army; he was at the Romanian and Italian fronts; deserted the army and was hiding; was in the Ukrainian Army, was a POW till 1921; Petliura; Petrushevych; hiding weapon in the dirt; his father died in the Italian front; he came back after WWI and married in 1924; he found his father’s brother in Canada; at first, was working at bush clearing; several Ukrainians were deported back, since they had no jobs; Dukhobory; Ukrainian Orthodox church in Hufford; Prosvita; Strilets’ka hromada in Hafford; Mykola Hryhorovych; Ukrainian community in Ruan (??); frequent demonstrations against unemployment; Ukrainian church in Ruan (??); Nick married again in Ruan, his wife was Varvara Donets’; he moved to Kirkland in 1938; his brother went to Ukraine in 1932 and returned to Kirkland in 1934; Natsional’ne ob’iednannia in Kirkland Lake.

Part 2: Robitnychyi Dim; Strilets’ka hromada; visit of Hul’tai (??); theatrical activities and dances at the Robitnychyi Dim; priests dividing Ukrainians: Fr. Kushchak (??), Fr. Chorniy (??); theatrical plays at the Robitnychyi Dim; Ridna shkola - teacher Semenov, Karpish - the first teacher; orchestra; Tkachuk (??); Plashka (Kuzyk) (??); Olga Roman (??); Robitnychyi dim was closed in 1939 and returned in 1942; helping Ukraine during WWII; Markovs’kyi - the 1st Head of Robitnychyi dim in the1930s; nationalists sitting very quietly; DPs; closing mines; coal mine Union had 5000 members; Union’s strike in 1940; influence of DPs; Robitnychyi dim was sold in 1976; Nick stopped working in mines in 1968.

Part 3: (Interviewee: John) was born on December 2, 1902; his wife’s nee was Anna Donets’; he came to Canada in March 1922; he had a farm in Vegreville; his wife joined him in Canada in 1935 (after his visit to Ukraine in 1932-34), they married in 1935
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Pysklywec, Russell W.
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c225-226 · Item · 20 Jan. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on August 2, 1933 in Kirkland Lake, ON; his father came to Canada for economic reasons, from Ternopil region, Buchach district, a village of Trebukhivtsi, in 1928; his father remarried in Ruan (??), Quebec; WWII, Ukrainian family of Borzuns; V-Day; finished High School in Kirkland, University of Pennsylvania; his life at the University; Slavic Club at the University; after graduating he went to Baltimore (??), took a job; his unfortunate love with a Ukrainian girl - prejudiced Ukrainians; growing up as a Ukrainian in Canada; Ukrainian school at Kirkland - teacher Mary Kuzyk, Tkachuk (??), Paraschuk (??), Mary Kozlov, textbooks; Ukrainian Hall; Ukrainian dances; Mike Kwinka (??).

Part 2: Mike Kwinka (??) teaching Ukrainian dances; Olga Romanov; Ukrainian Labor Temple; DPs; working as a mine inspector in the beginning of 1950s; 1940 strike in Kirkland when nationalists did go for strike; working conditions in mines; leaders of the Labor Temple: Steve Knysh (Secretary); Nick Lapish (??); Harry Prokopchuk (??); Mike Metliuk (??); a cooperative store later converted in Jehovah Witnesses Hall; DPs; Russell’s work in mines; he came back to Toronto after the American University in 1957; Ukrainian community started declining in Kirklake in 1940; Harry Prokopchuk (??); Lapish (??); Ukrainian orchestra; Mary Kuzyk - music teacher.

Part 3: Entertainment in small towns; Ukrainian community used to be the most active; costumes were homemade - no renting at that time; people in the Labor Temple; Yachuk (??); Ukrainian identity of Russell.

Rypalowski, Albina
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c227 · Item · 24 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Hryhoriak; born on May 8, 1920 in Timmins; her mother came in 1910, father came in 1909 from Bukovyna; Orthodox; went to the public school; Ukrainian Hall; Ukrainian school; members of the Hall: Rushyns’kyi (??), Bulgera (??), Stydomyi (??), Tomiuk, Smuk, Blahyi (??); Labor Temple - parades when others were throwing eggs and dirt at them; Orthodox priests in Timmins - Fr. Zaproniuk (??), Oliynyk (??); Fr. Borys (??); Sikors’kyi (??), talks about Ukraine; Kosar’s visits; Hutai (??); Prosvita became a UNF branch in 194(?); Babins’kyi (??); Slotskyi (??); Vorkevych (??); Hulis (??); Masnyk (??); Zaporozhnyi (??); Olga Baserbova (??); Saturday night parties; Ridna shkola teachers - Seretiuk (??), Hladysh (??), Albina was also a teacher there; discrimination against Ukrainians; UNO; MUN; WWII, goldwatch for Hitler; pro-German sentiments; Myndiuk (??); Ternovyi (??); Danyliuk (??); Albina was a President of the MUN branch for 12 years; Pavlo Yuzyk; Stodol’nyi (??) - President of UNO; Richuk (??) - President of OUK; Pashchyn - President of UNO; WWII - Ukrainians joining Canadian Army, Panchuk; sending parcels to soldiers; Legion; Stodol’nyi was a member of the Legion; Kostets’kyi.

Part 2: Albina organized entertainment at UNO; no Orthodox church at Timmins; Rossokha (??); her family sheltered coming priests and Sisters; DPs; Orthodox church was built in 1954-56; Fr. Horoshko; Albina adopted a Chinese boy; religious education at Ukrainian schools; Mrs. Mykhalchyshyn (??); Ukrainians started moving out of Timmins in late 1960s; selling the Hall in the late 1970s; Timmins Ukrainian museum; Communists; organizing a Ukrainian Committee in Timmins; her husband is Ivan Rypalowski; Albina introduced Easter Egg decoration for every nation in Timmins; Albina worked at the Ukrainian radio station.

Sawchuk, Natasha
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c228 · Item · 7 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Slyva; born on August 25, 1934 in Sudbury, ON; her father was a gold miner, family lived in Beardmore (??), Geraldton (??), Windsor; graduated from the University of Windsor; her husband’s name is Orest; her mother came to Canada from around Ternopil’ in 1921, her father came in 1930 from Boikivshchyna; her father was a professional dancer and had a University degree; her parents married in 1933; father was a member of the Labor Temple; Natasha married in 1962, had a son in 1968; WWII - she knitted scarves for the Army; discrimination against Ukrainians; choir, orchestra, plays in Windsor - choir conductor Korchmarovskyi (??), Nick Stefaniuk; plays: Natalka-Poltavka, Zaporozhets za Dunaiem, etc; mandolin orchestra in Labor Temple; DPs; Shevchenko, Franko concerts; she graduated from the Ontario College of Education; she got fired because she had a divorce in 1961; Ukrainian dance; all her family belongs to UNO.

Sawchuk, Oryst
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c229 · Item · 7 Feb. 1984
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Part 1: Born on February 23, 1928 in Winnipeg; his father came to Canada around the turn of the century, his father was a 15-year old teenager working in mines; his father’s brother died in a mine accident and is buried in the Copper Cliff (??); his mother arrived in 1913 from a village of Iaseniv, Ternopil region; his mother ran a boarding house for miners in Sudbury; Oryst went to school in Sudbury; Oryst’s father was a founding member of the WBA (Workers Benevolent Association) in Winnipeg; his mother was a member of the ULFTA since 1928; Ukrainian drama group in Winnipeg (Donkiv (??), Mary Kuzyk (??)); Shevchenko, Franko plays; Kobylians’ka; Karpish - teacher; Ukrainian school; discrimination against Ukrainians; John Boichuk; Youth section; Communist Hall was confiscated in favour of a Baptist church during WWII.

Part 2: WWII, Oryst went to the University of Manitoba - community planning; DPs; coming to Sudbury after the University; John Stefiura (??) - another Ukrainian architect in Sudbury; cultural exchange with Ukraine.

Semeniuk, Olga
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c230-231 · Item · 21 Nov. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Levkovych; born on April 8, 1906 in a village of Potoches’ka (??), Horodenka povit; she had 2 brothers and 2 sisters; her father had a good church education; family was wealthy; her mother had brothers in Canada, they invited Olga, and she left in August 1928 (arrived to Halifax, then went to Saskatchewan, then to a mine near Sudbury), married Mykhailo Semeniuk in 1930; the family moved to Sudbury; Kostets’kyi invited them to Kirkland Lake in May 1931; Communist Hall; Leshchuk (??); Strilets’ka hromada; Fr. Kushchak (??); Fr. Savchuk; Samostiinyky; Stasiv (now a lawyer) was a teacher in High School.

Part 2: Fr. Kushchak building a Ukrainian church in 1932-1933; a conflict of the church belonging (??); UNO Hall; Strilets’ka hromada - Nesterovs’kyi (??), Holobets’; a chapel near the Hall; Fr. Smyk (??); Fr. Kaminets’kyi (??); Fr. Chorniy (??); orchestra organized by Stokolosa (??), Shul’ha (??); Samostiinyky; Fr. Borys (??); Fr. Lazar was the first teacher in the Hall; Ridna shkola; Vasyl Hul’tai (??); Ivan Ilchyshyn was a teacher; Fr. Lazar’s wife founded the Prosvita but did not have own Hall; Fr. Smyk came after WWII; Olga was at the drama club - plays by Ukrainians authors; voting for the Polish Sejm; elections at UNO; OUK - women’s organization; Ukrainian businessmen in Kirkland - Sorochan (??), Fedirchuk (??).

Part 3: March with flags; Fr. Borys; Fr. Oliynyk (??); news about Holodomor 1933; MUN, Masna (??); dance club - Shelestyns’kyi (??) was an instructor; Konovalets’ assassination; sending parcels to Ukraine; DPs taking over the Hall; Fr. Zvarych (??); Fr. Chaika (??); Fr. Smyk; DPs opening an Orthodox church, Fr. Horoshko; Fedirchuk; Ukrainians living Kirkland Lake at the end of 1940s; Pinkovs’kyi (??) organized MUN; UNO branch in Kirkland Lake, UNO Congress in 1949; Kosar; CUC creation; WWII - Communist Hall was confiscated in Kirkland Lake; Khmara (??); Olga is Greek-Catholic.

Part 4: Bazylevych (??); active Ukrainians in Kirkland Lake - Kul’chyts’kyi, Shul’ha, Nesterovs’kyi, Maksymovych; Kuryliv (??) from Sudbury; Ukrainian school; Hrytsyshyn (??).

Semkovich, Frederick
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c232 · Item · 26 May 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on May 4, 1922 in Ontario; his mother arrived to the USA in 1904-05, his father arrived to Canada in about that time from Ukraine; mother came to Winnipeg, was a cook on a railroad; his parents were from the same village in Ukraine; eventually they moved to Chatham, ON (??); they married in 1912; family was farming when Frederick was born; in 1927(1928?) parents started to go on a Windsor market; Frederick belonged to the Ukrainian Catholic Youth Group; in about 1950 his father built a Ukrainian church in Chatham; Luchak (??); difference between Ukrainians coming to Canada at different times; his mother’s nee was Shliakhtych; Frederick lived in Chatham till 19, then he went to operate a Farmers Country General Store; he married in 1947 - his wife is Anthonia Pakenack (??); from 1947 till 1952 the family was in dairy business; DPs in Chatham; he moved to Kingston in 1952 opening 5 service stations in the area; in 1962 he abundoned service station business and turned to hotel business; he has 2 sons and a daughter.

Part 2: Frederick brought Henninger brewery in Hamilton; his father built a hotel in Chatham; he has 6 other siblings; John Kit (??) the Deacon in Chatham.

Shulha, Olha
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c233 · Item · 12 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Shulha, Paul
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c234-236 · Item · 30 Sep. 1983 - 5 Oct. 1983
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Part 1: Born on September 29, 1901 in a town of Hlyzan’ (??) near Lviv; his wife is Olga Shulha (nee - Kashuba); attended a gymnasium in Lviv, interrupted by WWI; in 1914, Russian Army came, in 1915, Austrian Army returned; Paul was the eldest child; shkola kylymars’kykh vyrobiv in his town; in 1918, his father returned from the Italian front; Paul was studying in a Teachers Seminary; he was drafted into the Polish Army, telegraph school; military life; Halyts’ka armiia; fighting in Odessa; makhnivtsi; Tiutiunnyk; his army heading to Kyiv; being in a hospital with typhos; back to his regiment; Bessarabia; Red Army, internment in Proskuriv; returning home; came to Canada in March of 1927 (Gdansk - South Hampshire - St. Johns, NB).

Part 2: Paul came to Winnipeg; teaching at a Ridna shkola at Ivan Franko settlement; Transcona and its inhabitants; Het’mantsi; antagonism between Ukrainians in Canada; teaching to play musical instruments; moving to Regina in the 1930s; Ukrains’kyi narodnyi dim in Regina; Vasyl’ Veselovs’kyi (??); Paul teaching at the Narodnyi dim im. Shashkevycha; Strilets’ka hromada; womens section of the Strilets’ka hromada; publishing Robintsychi visti; brass orchestra; Shatul’s’kyi (??); Myrnam.

Part 3: Used to make musical instruments. Learned in the Old Country from his uncle. He was part of the music band there, and played violin. (They also played “Svatannia na Honcharivtsi”). He wanted his uncle to tune the violin, and he agreed if Paul would help him build instruments. He left Myrnam in 1931, went to Saskatoon; Babiy (??); Vasyl Hoitai (??); Fr. Savchuk; a trip on farm to distribute Novyi shliakh; Paul was a member of the Strilets’ka hromada; organizing UNO in Saskatoon; Kosar; Hryhorovych - the 1st Head of UNO; Bishop Makariy (??); Hryhorovych; Slipchenko (??); Communists in Saskatchewan were the strongest; Bozhok; Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Pohorets’kyi as the Editor of Novyi shliakh; Ukrainian community in Kenora.

Part 4: Denis Metel’s’kyi (??) organized a brass orchestra; Pashchyn (??); organizing concerts in 1931 in Sudbury; his orchestra was called “banda”; Prof. Bobers’kyi (??); Het’mantsi; concert at the UNO Congress; WWII, German sentiments at UNO; Fr. Jean (??); Sheptyts’kyi; after the end of WWII Paul returned to Kirkland Lake; Ridna shkola - Matviichuk’s textbooks.