This file contains audio and an accompanying transcript from an interview with Mrs. H.K.
This series includes materials collected during an interview with a healer living in Saskatoon. It includes one transcript and one audio file.
This file contains an audio recording of an interview conducted with Jean at her home in Edmonton, on July 5, 2018.
This item is a transcript of an interview conducted with Jean at her home in Edmonton, on July 5, 2018.
This file contains materials collected from an interview with Jean. Jean is a healer who pours wax in the Edmonton area.
This collection consists of materials collected by Ashley Halko-Addley for her graduate research project, Waxing Away Illness, at the University of Alberta. In 2018, Ashley conducted interviews and observations of the wax ceremony in Saskatchewan and Alberta. This collection consists primarily of transcripts, audio recordings, and fieldnotes, with select supplementary materials.
A supplementary website was created by Ashley Halko-Addley. The website highlights some of the participants and important selections from their interviews. The website can be accessed here: https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/waxingawayillness/
Halko-Addley, AshleyProgram from Association of Ukrainian Canadians festival in Edmonton. Fred Paranchych attended with his parents and siblings. Fred was 7 years old at the time.
The series consists of records related to teaching Ukrainian language, culture and folklore, and includes course outlines, assignment and test designs, reading lists, correspondence with students, fieldwork projects, and other records starting from early course offerings in the end of 1970s, and until early 2000s. The courses covered are: Ukrainian Folk Song, Ukrainian Folk Prose, Ukrainian Calendar Customs, Rites of Passage, Folk Bilief, Material Culture, and Early Ukrainian Canadian Culture. There are also materials related to graduate students, master and PhD, whom Dr. Medwidsky supervised, and to their theses and dissertations.
This series includes materials from interviews collected with people living in the Edmonton area. This series includes transcripts and audio recordings from interviews and photographs.
This file contains early materials collected by Rena Hanchuk for her Folklore classes and a final paper. The project defines the wax ceremony as practiced in Canada. Within the written work, Rena compares and contrasts the definition of a wax ceremony through the taped interviews. The 15-page essay "A study on the Wax Ceremony as folk medicine" was done for the course Ukrainian 699.
Hanchuk, Rena Jeanne
Translation of the content:
They don’t use a tree (derevtse) any more [for the wedding], as they did at the beginning. They would cut a piece from a pine tree, the one that has five branches, and it is in the middle, and there are two on the sides. Then either at the bride’s or groom’s house, they start decorating it with greenery. When the groom is heading to the bride’s house, they are bringing the tree with them, and a korovai (wedding braded bread) which was baked and wrapped into something red. So, the best man is carrying the korovai. When they come and sit at the table, they cut the korovai into pieces, and it’s very magnificent. (Here they throw away so much bread…) And they present those pieces of korovai with the tree and the flowers from the tree to the relatives. It’s different here. It’s more delicate here. And there, it’s all relatives, it's poor…
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The tree is standing on the table, and then when the groom is going to the bride’s house, he is bringing his tree, so hers would be moved aside. And then later during propii, when the bride’s mother is going to take off her wreath, then they take the bride’s tree to the groom’s place. So, the bride is still wearing the wreath, and she is waiting for her mother and father and other relatives, and she has curls, as we used to do them above the forehead – one is curling one way, and the other – the other way, … so we would put on gerdans and a wreath, and … And when the mother comes, she takes off all those decorations and gives them to the relatives
The series contains biographical materials and information concerning Dr Medwisky's early life, education, and academic career. Materials include his personal correspondence, church and religious activities, philanthropic activities, investments, personal documents, and professional documents.
This series includes publications on various topics of Ukrainian studies and Folklore studies. Many of them are copies of publications that are very hard to obtain in libraries, rare editions, or those essential for Bohdan Medwidsky's teaching and research.
This series contains records related to Dr. Medwidsky activities within the Folklore Studies Association of Canada, including his term as a President, as well as in the American Folklore Society. Various information about folklore studies in North America has been compiled by Bohdan Medwidsky and later adapted and used for the Ukrainian Folklore Program at the University of Alberta. His connections with known folklorists such as Robert Bohdan Klymasz and Michael Taft (later of the Library of Congress) are also reflected in this series.
Bohdan Medwidsky was active in the Canadian Association of Slavists as well as maintained professional relationships with many scholars from Ukraine, and Ukrainianists from other parts of the world, for example, with Mykola Mysinka in Slovakia. The series consists of letters, invitations, reports, project documentation and other records related to Ukrainian and Slavic studies beyond the University of Alberta.
This series consists of records pertaining the first Ukrainian Folklore course offerings at the University of Albert, as well as the establishment of the Ukrainian Folklore master and PhD degrees. It also includes documents related to establishing several endowments in support of the Ukrainian Folklore Studies: the Huculak Chair Endowment, the Kule Chair Endowment, the Ukrainian Folklore Archives Endowment, the Ivan Franko Ukrainian Scholarship, and others.
The series consists of records related to various aspects of Ukrainian studies at the University of Alberta, including the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Slavic Department, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, estanblishing of various courses, associations, area studies, etc., and includes correspondence, meeting minutes, course proposals, joint projects and other documents.
This file contains materials related to Dr Medwidsky’s involvement and interest in Canadian Multiculturalism and human rights. Contained within are newsletters and bulletins from Cultures Canada, government reports from the Government of Canada on multiculturalism and human rights, articles concerning the Meech Lake Accord, a number of House of Commons Debates transcripts, Canadian Human Rights Commission newsletters, documents from the Alberta Heritage Fund, and documents from the Alberta Human Right and Civil Liberties Association.
This file contains official news and newsletters from the Alberta Liberal party, distributed to Liberal Party members. Materials concern the policy directions for the Liberal Party and criticisms of the Conservative Party in Alberta.
This file contains materials related to Dr Medwidsky’s involvement with political parties. Most of the documents are related to his involvement with the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta, including active participation in campaigns for Julian Koziak. The types of documents included in this file are letters and correspondence, campaign materials, party newspapers, minutes from meetings, political action plans, and policy proposals.
