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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.

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.

Part 1: Nee - Voleniuk (??); Halychyna, Sokal’ region, village Kuberkovychi (??); her father was rich, so they came to Canada for political reasons, not financial; came to Canada with her parents in 1913, when she was 9; settled in Saskatchewan Province, on a farm; the family was Catholic; parents sent her and 2 brothers to the Petro Mohyla Institute in Saskatoon in 1917; Ukrainian life on the farms; Vasyl’ Svystun; Institute’s Choir; Belgium priests, Budka against the Institute; a movement against Rome Catholicism; decision to create the Orthodox Church in 1918; Ukrainian schools and life; SUMC, Panchuk; Dr. Simovych from USA; Dr. Nazaruk; Congress of 1922; students’ organization “Kaminiari”; students’ debates; Catholic students becoming Orthodox ones; UNO; Helen Peters (??); Soiuz ukrainok; Savella finished Teachers College and was teaching; Kliub divchat; Tovarystvo Olhy Kobylians’koi created in 1923; Kharytia Kononenko.

Part 2: Soiuz Ukrainok Ameryky created in 1925; Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady created in 1926; ekzekutyva, 2 sections (one was in Winnipeg with Mrs. Svystun being its Head; another one in Saskatoon with Savella being its Head); Samostiinyky; Konovalets’ visit in 1928; Sushko’s visit; UNO; Ukrains’kyi holos; Myroslav Stechyshyn (??); Mykhailo Stechyshyn (??); Svystun; Svystun and Savchuk; Fr. Kudryk; Savella got a job after the University to give lectures in the area (teaching about Ukrainian embroideries, healthy eating, etc); the name of “samostiinyky”; Stella went to Europe in 1928; Bishops Khomyshyn and Kontselovs’kyi (??) in Halychyna; a writer Andriy Chaikovs’kyi (??) in Kolomyia; “Mariis’ki druzhyny”; Peremyshl’s’kii divochyi instytut; Prof. Mykhailo Vozniak; Panchuk and him teaching at Ridna shkola; CUC creation; Tracy Phillips; Fr. Kushnir; UCSA.

Part 3: Raising money and sending off packages; CUC Congresses; DPs; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Dontsov.

Part 1: Born in Calgary on February 6, 1916; her mother came to Canada as a 2 y.o. Child and her father was 18 when he came; Greek-Catholic family; during the Russian revolution her uncles and father came first to the USA and then to Canada; her father was a president of the Ukrainian church; her mother grew up in Vegreville, could not write, she belonged to the Catholic Women’s League; Het’mantsi, Helena personally knew Danylo Skoropads’kyi; UNO; Mr. Korol’ (??) was a Sotnyk at Het’mantsi, Paul Bayrak (??); Mr. Kupchyk (??) belonged to the National’ne ob’iednannia; Mykhailo Hetman (??); she went to Catholic school, did not finish the High School; she was a female vice-president of the Legion; she is the only female Sergeant Major in the Calgary ???????; Catholic vs Orthodox church; meeting Savchuk overseas; in November 1942 she went overseas as a Sergeant; there were 8 women from each Province; took a course on driving a vehicle and repairing it; Alberta Women’s Service Corp; Skoropads’kyi’s visit in 1948; John Didora (??); ULFTA and Het’mantsi; First Female Contingent overseas to provide services for the Headquarters; Ukrainian Canadian Services Association was established in 1944; Ukrainian Club in London - Chernevskyi (??) the President; Fr. Horoshko (??); Kozicky was the Secretary of the Club for 2 years; Panchuk as a Director of the Club.

Part 2: Panchuk as a Director of the Club; Emily from Vegreville; Fr. Savchuk, Fr. Horoshko and several others having meeting after which Panchuk resigned; Fr. Horoshko; CUC supporting the Club; Tony Yaremovych (??); 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Legion celebrated in Winnipeg - Ukrainian Branch hosted them; her name in Ukrainian is Kuzyts’ka; UCLA (??) and Vorobets’ (??); Yuzyk (??), Panchuk, Khraplyva (??) - sent information to the Orthodox in Canada; Peter Vorobets’ (??); Frolyk (??); Danylo Skoropads’kyi and his protege Korostovets’ (??); Frolyk the glamour boy; her discharge from the Army; DPs; Dr. Bohdan Mykhalyshyn (??); Dr. Stan Roshevskyi (???); Panchuk; Fr. Kushnir; Fr. Horoshko; Tony; John Yuzyk; Kozicky now travels with the Association of Wealthy People; her father went to the USA in order to avoid conscription in the Russian Army; DPs.

Part 1: Born in Bukovyna; brothers conscripted in WWI, both discharged after sustaining severe injuries; emigrated to Canada in 1925 to Raymore, Sask; Ukrains’ka prohresyvna presa; worked on a farm; moved to Regina, worked on the railroad; Soiuz Samostiinykh Ukraintsiv; narodnyi dim; Robitnyche Zapomove Tovarystvo; Tovarystvo Ukrains’kyi Robitnycho Farmers’kyi Dim; freedom of religion; moved to Holden, AB (1928), worked in a packing plant; Narodnyi Katolyts’kyi Dim; Bratstvo Kanads’kykh Katolykiv, moved to Edmonton, AB, then to Peace River; homesteads; deportation; Liga Farmers’koi Iednosty; cultural and religious tolerance; nationalist Ukrainian Canadian organizations; Ukrainian Canadian organizations who were against war; Soiuz Ukrains’kykh Samostiinykiv; collaboration with other Ukrainian organizations.

Part 2: Was the provincial head of the Tovarystvo Robitnycho-Farmers’kyi Dim in Alberta, post WWI; Edmonton; UNO; narodnyi dim; supported cooperation between all Ukrainians, no matter their political views or religious denominations; radical Ukrainian organizations; Ukrains’ka Armiia WWI; post-WWI immigration from Ukraine to Canada; Drumheller, Crow’s Nest Pass; mining in Alberta, 1930s; Vegreville, Smokey Lake, Ukrainian cultural and sports organizations; Peace River, Highland Park, Rycroft, Blain Lake; Innisfree; educational and cultural exchange trips between Canada and Ukraine; SUMK; Cheremosh; anti-war organizations; Tovarystvo Ob’iednanykh Kanadtsiv; Konhres Kanads’kykh Katolykiv; WWII; Anti-Hitler Coalition; anti-war/determent talks between USA and USSR; Tovarystvo Dopomohy Bat’kivshchyni; national congress for Ukrainian Canadian organizations in the 1940s in Winnipeg; Mackenzie King; Winston Churchill; Theodore Roosevelt.

Part 3: WWII, Hitler vs. Stalin; Vasyl’ Svystun came to Edmonton in 1945 with a public presentation. Aleksievych also heard Mr. Svystun’s public presentations back in 1927 in Regina and in Yahir(?????) in 1928. Svystun was highly educated person and tried to engage others, like Mr. Romaniuk from Edmonton who was a lawer. Aleksievych had a personal conversation with Svystun after his presentation in 1945. Svystun abandoned his old political views by that time (thinking that independent Ukraine was possible should Hitler win) and tried to persuade Ukrainians in that through Prohresyvnyi Rukh. It was the day when Japan capitulated. Aleksievych brought Mr & Mrs Svystun to Smoky Lake for a supposed public presentation at the Narodnyi Dim. Aleksievych’s organization (Tovarystvo ob’iednanykh ukrains’kykh kanadtsiv) benefitted from relations with the Soviet Ukraine (libraries, museums, scientific literature). Saskatoon is culturally related to Chernivtsi. Professor Chernetskyi (???) was against this, but others like Prof Bygin (???) and Prof. Bunio (???) made possible that a monument of Lesia Ukrainka was erected at the campus of the Saskatoon University. Robitnyche Tovarystvo, Tovarystvo ob’iednanykh ukrains’kykh kanadtsiv, and Ukrains’ka Prohresyvna Presa (celebrated its 75 years in November) played a big role in that but never were enemies of Canada, Canadian culture, or Ukrainian people. We (together with the Canadian Red Cross) helped hospitals in Chernivtsi and Lviv by shipping them hospital equipment, money, and foods for children. Aleksievych thanks Liubomyr Lutsiv.
Aleksievych was born in Bukovyna, village of Stavchany on May 15, 1905. Went to the village school at the age of 6. WWI during the school years; Bukovyna was occupied - had to go to the Romanian school; forced Romanization of Bukovyna; Chytal’ni (prosvitni tovarystva) in Bukovynian villages. Aleksievych’s grandfather fled the Tsarist Russian Empire (originally was from near Kyiv). Radykal’nyi rukh na Bukovyni. Three of Aleksievych’s brothers were in an Austrian army. Forced conscription to the Romanian army. Brothers’ fate during the Romanian occupation.

Part 4: Aleksievych is Orthodox Christian. He came to Canada in 1925 (Chernivtsi - Poland - Vienne - Paris - port Sherburg - Halifax (took him 9 days to cross the ocean)). He was 20 y.o. and was traveling together with 4 other peers. Had to bribe a Romanian customer to let them go. In 1927 in Regina Aleksievych became a member of the Tovarystvo. he is still a Communist. Communist Party had a big influence: when in 1930 Tyn Vlad (????) came to Edmonton, 15000 people were awaiting him. To be a communist in Canada is a hard thing, you have to love your people and serve them faithfully. Communism and its purpose. Aleksievych became a member of the Communist Party in 1929 when Leipman (???) from Alberta, who attended a school in Moscow, came in November 1930 with a public speech. People from Peace River reported to the Police that Aleksievych wanted a Revolution in Canada, yet Communist Party was legal back then in Canada. Helping Ukraine during the hunger (which was NOT hand made). Kobzei (???) and Lobai (???) left the Communist Party, and Kobzei wrote about it in the “Kanadiiskyi farmer” and had public presentations; together with Taras Triasyna (???) showed a film in Regina (against the Soviet authorities in Ukraine). Arrests among Communists in Canada. In 1939 Canadian government confiscated the building of his organization and transferred it to the organization of Ob’iednanykh ukrainskykh natsionalistiv. Later on, the building was returned back to them. they nevertheless gave concerts in a German Hall and other Hall. Freeing their fellows from concentration camps. CUC and Communist organization. Lawyers Phillips and Simpson (???) tried to create CUC as a counterforce to Progressive Ukrainian movement. Publishing house in Winnipeg was confiscated but Ukrainski visti continued to be published.

Part 5: New Ukrainski visti and CUC; Kongresovyi Ukrainskyi Komitet (in USA) struggling for power; UNO, Bratstvo katolykiv, Sichovi striltsi. Anton Hlynka went to London and Rome to fight for the newcomers after WWII; deciding which DPs should come to Canada; newcoming DPs chose different Ukrainian organizations; OUN; Hlynka and his attitudes towards Communists; Ivan Iakur (???) was competing against Hlynka (he was a lawyer born in Andrew, AB) to become a Parliment member in Ottawa; Vasyl’ Halina from the Communist Party; Hlynka played a big role in bringing DPs into Canada; DPs strengthened the Nationalists cercles in Canada, but did not harm the Communist ones (though they tried to: put a bomb in a Robitnychyi Dim in Toronto and in Edmonton; attacked meetings).

Part 1: Born in 1922, in Halychyna; emigrated from Ukraine to Canada in 1930, to Sudbury, ON; discrimination against ethnic minorities in Canada; ethnic gangs; Ukrainian National Federation (UNF) in Ontario; Molodi Ukrains’ki Natsionalisty (MUN) in Sudbury and Toronto; Ukrainian cultural participation in Canada; WWII; Ukrainian communist groups in Sudbury and Toronto; Canadian political parties in the 1930s; Pidzamecky; Stas; Shaneks; Philipchuk; Paul Yuzyk; Pawliuk; Kosar; language use: English and Ukrainian; Konovalets’ assassination in 1938 (Ukrainian movement leader in Ukraine); flying school and parachute jumping courses through MUN; Svarich; attended OCAD; convention at Massey Hall, late 1930s; WWII army service overseas (England, France, Philippines, North Africa); displaced persons in Germany; Amelia Richards (wife); Ukrainian Servicemen’s club in England; Ukrainian guerrilla army; Bandera/Ukrainian nationalists’ split post-WWII; St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church (Sudbury); Ukrainian Christmas (late 1930s); Greek/Roman Catholicism; Lively, ON; Crayton, ON.

Part 2: Orthodox/Catholic denominations; Banderivtsi; Canadian vs. Ukrainian identity; talks about his children and grandchildren; communists in Crayton, ON; Hetmantsi (Ukrainian) Monarchists in Sudbury; Ukrainian Canadian Veterans Society/Legion in Ontario; soldiers from Sudbury killed in WWII; Eastern vs. Western Ukrainian Canadians; Ukrainians in Sudbury; Connorson; Ukrainian participation in Canadian political parties; Zaiets’ (alderman); Mike Salski (?); UNF; Novyi Shliakh newspaper; Cobalt, ON; Kirken Lake (?); North Bay.

Born August 20, 1926 in Kingston. His father came to Canada in 1912 from Kamianets-Podil’s’k, worked in tannery, went back to Ukraine in 1914, married his mother and left her there. She came only in 1925. His father never joined any organizations. The first group of Ukrainians in Kingston worked for the Tan Hightes Company (???). Learned English only when went to school. Small community of Ukrainians in Kingston when Andriesky was growing up but no basic organizations. Had yearly parties like Malanka. Still there was a Ukrainian school in a private house where children learned the language. No Ukrainian church back then, only Roman-Catholic cathedral (in the late 1930s there were 2 of them already). Priest Boreky (???) who later became a bishop. Felt foreigners because of the last name. Most of the Ukrainians were in the city. Had a Jason Farm next to them, there was Braznyky (???) family. Kotovych and Vudiks (???) came in the 1930s, but not much of an immigration to the Kingston area between the wars. Then Nyc Gulka came into town and split the community up, and they started to build a Hall (UNF). Fascists vs Commies camps. Andriesky’s father subscribed to a Ukrainian newspaper. During WWII Andriesky made corvettes. In about 1946-48 the community really polarized: either Fascists or Communists. DPs developed a new Hall. John Sapletynsky (???) was the last treasure of the original Hall (Labor Temple). Andriesky’s organization operated under a warrant of the Ontario Company’s Act. Fred Katovich (???)
Kingston had between 25000-30000 population between the wars, not it is a diverse community. Andriesky is an electronic technician repairing appliances now. Wife - Wilda Helen Andriesky (nee Harker), her mother was German and father was a methodist minister. have no children. Three dancing Ukrainian groups in the community: Maky, Sadochok, The Doors - all run by the Ukrainian-Canadian Club of Kingston that was formed 3 years ago. Andriesky helped to write its Constitution. Liubomyr Lutsiuk was the originator. Tarnowecky (???) married the John Wytyk’s daughter, and started a professional dance group, which now stations in Toronto.

Part 1: Was born in Halychyna, Radykhiv povit, on April 14, 1907. He is Orthodox but initially his relatives were probably Catholics. They already had an uncle and grandfather in Canada. His father emigrated in about 1912-1913. His brother was at that time 4 y.o. and sister 2 y.o. Coming via Amsterdam to Halifax. Got some disease during the trip and was held in a quarantine upon arrival. His father died when he was 7. He was adopted by childless relatives, and stayed with them till the end of the school term. There was no Ukrainian schools back then. He became a teacher. Catholics and Orthodox relations. Ukrainian teachers and students. Stechyshyn (???) was a rector of the Orthodox Institute. Hnatyshyn, Matiuk, Dr. Savitsky (???) were his unofficial deputies. Sencus was one of the best friends of Andruschak. Teacher’s responsibilities and curriculum. Church choir.

Part 2: Soiuz ukrainskykh samostiinykiv. Father Pliak (??). Creation of the CUC. Congresses of the CUC. DPs and helping them, and relations with the newcomers.

Natalka Andrusyshyn (nee Ostashevs’ka) born on September 25, 1905 in Korcheva, Rava Rus’ka. Came to Canada in 1928. Her brother and husband organized a Chytal’nia in Canada. Her mother died in 1927. Her husband was 10 years older, born in Shchepiatyn. Her brother and husband went to Canada and settled in Montreal, and sent for her. She arrived to Halifax by the boat “Estonia”. On Sheptyts’koho the first pioneers were the Borshchevski. Father John started building a church in 1925-26. Neighbors were Slovaks and Hungarians. Father Lukashuk. Harsh winter life. Moved from Sheptyts’koho 17 years and moved to Vaz D’or in 1946. Sheptytskoho was renamed in 1936 into Castaneda (???) when Frenchmen arrived from Montreal over there and burnt the school and monastery.

IUrii Sup was born on May 6, 1926 100 miles from Montreal. His parents came to Canada in 1907. They had some business in the Old Country but lost it to a fire 3 times, after the 3rd time they left for Canada. They arrived to Sheptytskyi in 1929.

Ivan Smoly was born on 21 March 1908 in Sokal’, village of Hil’tsi (???). Came to Canada in 1927 to a farm in Crydor (???), Saskatchewan (arrived to Halifax by a boat).

Maria Sup-Smoly (sister of Ivan Smoly) born on March 23, 1921. Came to Sheptytskyi in 1929. There was UNO organization in Val D’or and people from Sheptytskyi would come to it (it was organized in about 1935-36). Mr. Mazuryk was its head. There was no Ukrainian church, so that when Father Horoshko would come he would run services in a Hall where an altar would be put (later on Horoshko left for the Orthodox church). Orthodox priest would come: Pareniuk, Skorbnyk, Shchavel’, Tsiupka, Lotytskyi, Zhykhuda(???), Chaika (the current priest). Ukrainian church in Val D’or was built in 1953 under Father Chaika.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.