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Part 1: Born on August 10, 1897; Greek-Catholic; came to Canada in 1930 (to Winnipeg); was arrested for 3 months by the Poles for belonging to the UVO; he was one of those who created UVO in his own povit; in Canada he joined the Strilets’ka hromada in 1938 (Kosar, Vasylyshyn - the Head of Strilets’ka hromada in Winnipeg); Het’mantsi (Nazaruk, Petrushevych, Bobers’kyi); Bishop Khomyshyn; Samostiinyky; Pohorets’kyi and Shliakh; he was a Secretary of the CUC; Prof. Simpson; CUC creation; BUC (Bratstvo ukrains’kykh katolykiv); confiscation of the Communists Hall; DPs and their influence; mel’nykivtsi vs banderivtsi; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy in 1949; he left the Sichovi stril’tsi organization; Kosar; WWII - Home Defence in Winnipeg.

Part 2: Born in selo Rakivchyk (??), povit Kolomyia; came to Canada in May 1930; in 1914 went to the Ukrains’ki sichovi stril’tsi who later became Ukrains’ka halyts’ka armiia; Beresteis’kyi myr; Tsentral’na Rada; Denikin; 1920 - the front against the Poles; Mykytiuk crossed the border in 1920 and stayed home till 1930; he was khorunzhyi; he built Narodnyi Dim in the village; Sichovi stril’tsi against the tsarist Russian troops in the Carpathians in 1914-1917; Het’man Skoropads’kyi and Germans; polk sichovykh stril’tsiv Konoval’tsia; Poles sending the Petliura soldiers (i.e. Sichovi stril’tsi) to the concentration camps; arrived to Canada (Quebec city) from Germany had to stay on a farm near Saskatoon but ran away to Viniard (??) station; then in 1932 moved to Winnipeg and worked on a Ukrainian milk factory (??); immediately joined the Strilets’ka hromada (over 100 members); sending money to Ukraine; publishing UVO’s newspaper Shliakh; UNO; Kosar as the Head; Petrushevych sent Nazaruk and Bobers’kyi to raise money for propaganda against France and England to acknowledge Halychyna; Ukrainian Communists in Canada; WWII, Hitler and Stalin’s pact; CUC; Vasylyshyn; Denych (??); Orhanizatsia ukrains’kykh buvshykh voiakiv created by those dissatisfied with the Strilets’ka hromada; Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans Association after the WWII.

Part 3: Bohdan Panchuk; 141 Branch of Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans Association in 1946; Budka - the Head; Stefan Bilins’kyi (??); helping DPs; UCC in USA; Konovalets’ - Mel’nyk - Kvytkovs’kyi (??) - Hnatiuk from Philadelphia; Kokhan (the Head of CUC); Dr. Mandryka and his wife; Kaiba (??); Fr. Kushnir; Yarynovych (??); Izhyk (Editor of Postup); Kyryliuk as the Head of CUC’s branch in Winnipeg; future of Ukrainians in Canada; new organizations of DPs; Fr. Kushnir.

Part 1: Born on June 26, 1912 in Halychyna (Buchachtskyi povit, village of Spilka (??)), Greek-Catholic; he had 2 brothers and 3 sisters; moskvofily, Tovarystvo im. Kachkovskoho; “Prosvita” in the village; vyzvol’ni zmahannia - Ukrains’ka Halyts’ka armiia; Jews in the village and relations with them; he went to a school in the village first and then a gymnasium in Buchach; in 1933 he finished gymnasium; everyday life during the Depression; theological seminaries; in 1935, he went to the Lviv University, university life and political situation.

Part 2: University life; went to Zagreb to study; student circles in the gymnasium; gymnasium disciplines; Mariis’ka druzhyna (??); he became a member of OUN; Pacification events; rusofil’s’ki nastroi during the WWI, Austrian politics.

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 (??).

Part 1: Born on September 21, 1916 in Chapleau (???), Ontario; his present wife is Jean Bennett (??), was married twice, has 6 children; his parents were from Ternopil’; his father came to Canada just before 1914, settled down in Northern Ontario; eventually moved to Windsor; he is Greek-Catholic; went to public school and High School, attended Ukrainian school classes; he belonged to Ukrainian National Federation and Ukrainian Youth Organization; Fr. Olenchuk was a priest when Fran was an altar boy - St. Vladimir and Olga Ukrainian church in Windsor; Het’mantsi; Orthodox group in Windsor; Frank played in the school orchestra, Harry Pavoroznyk (??) came from Europe; discrimination against Ukrainians - episode with the school principal; went to a Medical school in 1936, graduated in 1942; Danylo Skoropadskyi coming to Windsor; his uncle came after the war, joined UNO; Zorianyi (??) was a President for many years; Zeleniv (??); Communists and Labor Temple in Windsor; MUN (?) Convention in Toronto; UNO branch in Windsor: Taras Martyniuk, Joseph Ievorsky (??), Dosklach (??); Kosar came to Windsor several times; Mr. Hontar’ from Toronto; Senator Yuzyk; Frank’s 40th Anniversary of MUN speech; Pavliuk from UNO; Frank’s contacts with Ukrainians overseas - Veterans Association.

Part 2: During his London medical school time - associated with the Symphony orchestra and Canadian Officers Training Corp, out of Ukrainian life; return to Windsor, got involved in Ukrainian affairs; met Panchuk and Froliak in London; Kushnir in London; Danylo Skoropadskyi; CUC; Dr. Kysylevskyi (??); Tracy Phillips (??); Frank supported Froliak; Fr. Kushnir; coming to Hamilton, getting away from Ukrainian Catholic church; Dr. Pylypiuk in Hamilton, starting a medical practice; DPs coming to Canada; him as a President of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee in 1967-68.

Part 3: Kiries (??), Bohdan Korchewskyi (??); Dr. KLymasz; Pavliuk; Polaznyk in Ukrainian National Federation; Centennial Project, Centennial Book, Shevchenko Foundation covering the expenses; Yaremovych (??) from CUC offered him to be a delegate to Ukrainian World Congress in Toronto - becoming nominated for executive positions; a course on accounting to be a Treasure; English as the language of the Congress financial statement; Frank as the President of the Ukrainian Professional Business Club of Hamilton.

Part 4: Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans Legion Club; Smolskyi (??), Klymasz, Lazarovych; Ukrainian Research Foundation, Steve Pavliuk; Panchuk tried to incorporate all Ukrainian veterans; War Veterans Association for newcomers; 1946 convention of the Ukrainian veterans, Panchuk, John Yuzyk; CUC in Hamilton after WWII; John Olchary (??); Ukrainian-Jewish Foundation (??) - becoming its Chairman through Pavliuk; a publication about contributions of Ukrainians in the WWI and WWII - Kecherovskyi (??) gathering information; a book by Dr. K (??); Ukrainian-Canadian Professional and Business Club in Hamilton started in 1965, Dr. Pylypiuk.

Part 1: Her parents were from Halychyna; after arriving to Canada her father stayed in the Port Arthur’s area; her father was conscious of his Ukrainianness; Depression hardships; evening Ukrainian school in Canada, teacher Drabyk (??), girls mandoline group; Kravchuk; Panchyshyn; she was sent to Winnipeg for a 6-months instruction and then moved to Regina; she was teaching at a Ukrainian school then; proud to be Ukrainian in Canada; went to visit Ukraine in 1956 (??); teaching in Thunder Bay; Winnipeg College Fond (?????) in 1936 - Hutsuliak, Prokopchuk (the Director of the College); daily regiment, classes, and social life at the College; her father-in-law was the founder of the Workers Benevolent organization in Regina.

Part 2: Political education (awareness of the USSR, Ukrainian SSR); in 1922 they collected money to assist the starving in the USSR; Lobay and Kobzey leaving LFTA; John Kolasky (his book and statements); Communist Party of Canada (CPC); loss of the property of the Communist organizations in Canada; LFTA and Stalin’s ally, Hitler; Association of Ukrainian Canadians; collecting money for helping USSR during WWII; CUC creation and LFTA; LFTA membership; Workers Benevolent Association (she became a member in 1928 when she was 16); DPs and their impact on LFTA; visit to Ukraine in 1956, official delegation.

Part 3: Visit to Ukraine in 1956; DPs about the USSR; Ukrainian Labor Temple changed its name into Ukrainian Culture Centre; LFTA concerns.

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.

Part 1: Born - unclear when or where; Creek-Catholic; his father got married and went to the USA (to Mississippi) in 1913, then the WWI began, and father got sick and died in USA; Moskvofily; Wasyl took part in vyzvol’ni zmahannia, Ukrains’ka armiia; he went to Canada in 1926 - cost him $500; came to Winnipeg; Ukrains’kyi holos; working on a farm in Saskatoon; working on CPR; Communists and Robitnychyi Dim in Winnipeg; discrimination against Ukrainians; his wife came to Canada during the Depression (nee Tsaps’ka (??)); relations between Ukrainians and Poles; life in Kenora.

Part 2: Work on CPR; moving to Victoria after WWII; Ukrainian Catholic church in Victoria; Fr. Makukh (??); CUC; future of Ukrainians in Canada.

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.

Part 1: Born in Ukraine; refuses to provide his DOB; he is Orthodox now but his relatives who came to Canada around 1907 were Greek-Catholic; his family settled on a farm in Saskatchewan, to the South of Saskatoon; in 1917 Kulyk went to the Petro Mohyla Institute in Saskatoon; he was teaching several years to get money for his tuition; because of lack of money, graduated in 1932; then came to Winnipeg, worked for the Ukrainian Voice for a year; in 1940 found a job in Income Tax (hold it for 25 years); studying Ukrainian at a school; life at the Mohyla Institute; Svystun; Stechyshyn; religious life at the Institute; in 1939 was a vice Rector of the Institute; was a secretary of SUMC; Bohdan Panchuk was his student; SUMC was an active organization before WWII; SUS; Sichovi stril’tsi; UNO; Konovalets’, Mel’nyk and meeting with him - a meeting in 1931; Arsenych; Prof. Bilets’kyi (??); Het’mantsi; Dr. Datskiv; ULFTA; physical altercations with Communists; Ukrains’kyi natsional’nyi komitet; Komitet dopomohy Karpats’kiy Ukraini; 2 Committees of CUC; Kushnir; creation of CUC; Pavliuchenko, Kosar; confiscating property of LFTA; conscription debate; Ukrains’ko-kanads’kyi dopomohovyi komitet.

Part 2: DPs coming to Canada; Samostiinyky; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Ukrains’ka natsional’na rada; Kushnir; Kosar; Fr. Savchuk; Datskiv; Dr. Mandryka; Kokhan; BUC.

Part 1: Churches in Oshawa; Starshevs’kyi (??) the great person; Sosnovs’kyi; Alberman (??); Strielts’ka hromada in Edmonton; rivalry between Hlynka and Decore; building a Hall; Senator Yuzyk; Magera (???); Laybak (???); Stechyshyn, “Kredo”; Kosar; Hlytay (??); posviachennia praporu Sichovykh stril’tsiv by Colonnel Kurmanovcyh (??).

Part 2: Pavliuk (??); Colonel Moran (??); DPs and conflicts with them; Mel’nykivtsi taking over the UNO; Pavliuchenko; Kosar; Yuzyk; Semen Hladun (??); Kosar as a Head of UNO; Dmytro Suvanets’ (??) from Edmonton; Pohoretskyi (??) the Editor; Vasyl’ Rulyk (??); publishing house moving from Saskatoon to Winnipeg, buying a building for it; usunennia Kosaria; editor of “Slovo”, Rossokha (??); 1960 - Komitet na ozdorovlennia UNO in Winnipeg; Klub ukrains’kykh-kanadiis’kykh voiakiv; Davydovych; Andrukhovych in Saskatoon (son of a priest) in RCMP; CUC; Kosar as a unifier.

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 (??).

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.

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 on July 5, 1918 in Yellow Creek; had to shorten his last name; his father came to Canada in 1911, mother came to Canada in 1914 with 3 sons (landed in Boston because the ship was redirected because of the war); family was Catholic; Fr. Kulyk and a new church of Petra i Pavla built in 1933; Kaye’s father was from Halychyna; Kaye went to a Ukrainian school; reading books; concerts and plays in a Hall; his first teacher Makloy (??); Panchuk as a teacher; school, Ukrainian language classes after school but no Ukrainian during the classes; Stratiichuk (??), Layba (??); Mohyla Institute; coming to Saskatoon in 1933 to a meeting as a delegate from SUMC, speeches by Stechyshyn, Lazarovych, Dr. Boykovych, Dr. Dragan (??), rev. Savchuk, Solomon, the Bishop; came to Mohyla Institute as a student in 1935; in 1937 went to the University of Saskatoon; Sheptyts’kyi Institute; Prof. Simpson; CUC; Kaye joined the Airforce in February 1941; London and Ukrainian Canadian Service Association; Ukrainian Social Club in Manchester.

Part 2: Visiting graves of the fallen Ukrainian soldiers; came back to Canada in January 1944; Mrs. Panchuk (??); Helen Kozicky; Semelsky (??); Mr. Panchuk; was given an extended leave and went to the McGill University; Ukrainian Selfreliance; Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans’ Association; CUC sponsored his tour (10 weeks); Panchuk as too nationalistic; Bishop Vasyliiv (??); UNO; he returned to Saskatoon after the end of WWII, finished the University, teaching at schools; DPs’ impact.

Part 1: Born in a village of Ruda (??), povit Rohatyn (??), in 1896; he is Orthodox but family was Catholic in Ukraine; he had 4 siblings; his mother was Mariia Kukuruz (nee); his father was Dmytro Korda; he finished the village school; in 1915 he was conscripted in the army - was in Austria, in cavalry; in 1917 went to the Italian front; Ukrains’ki vyzvol’ni zmahannia - Ukrains’ka halyts’ka armiia; Polish prison; life under Poland; Jewish question; came to Canada for economic reasons in 1926 - he was the first in his village to go; had to borrow $200 for the travel; came through Hamburg; work and life of a new immigrant in Canada.

Part 2: Life and work in Canada in the beginning, no help from Ukrainians; working for a German man; he became a member of the Strilets’ka hromada in 1936, was a Secretary there; Strilets’ka hromada’s Hall; fights with the Orthodox community; UNO, fights with Communists; Fr. Kubert (???); Het’mantsi; Banderivtsi; Communists in Saskatoon; a school in Natsional’nyi Dim (teachers nuns, Kosareva (??), Babuts’ka (??), Chepans’ka (??), Romanova (??); Kormanovych (??); Konovalets’; Sushko; Tusal’s’kyi (??); DPs; Novyi shliakh moving to Winnipeg, Kosar; Pavliuchenko; Komitet Vidrodzhennia UNO in 1959-60, riot; his wife’s nee is Papirko, she is from the same village Ruda, was present during the interview.

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.

Part 1: Born on December 25, 1905 in Canada, in (???); his father was a church deacon; parents taught him Ukrainian language at home (no school back then); then public High School, then he went to St. Joseph College; had a teacher’s training there and become a teacher in Regina (no Ukrainian community at that time); he and Ivan Myrobyn (??) organized Ukrainian choir, amature theater, weekly concerts; Mykhailo Tutish (??) active organizer; Korchinski’s father was active in the community; WWI - Ukrainians as aliens; Bishop Budka’s arrest; Fr. Boskyi (??); discrimination towards Ukrainians after WWI; Lutsyk’s story of conscription and Bishop Zherebko (??); Svystun; Orthodox vs Catholic church fights; Korchinski started teaching in 1924, problems with Ukrainian classes; Fr. Savchuk calling him to Hafford; Shklianka (??) the School Principal; Hunchak; Volodymyr Bosyi (??), polkovnyk Shapoval - Het’man Skoropads’kyi; Strilets’ka hromada.

Part 2: Het’mantsi’s idea in Canada; Strilets’ka hromada, Sokil; Bosyi; Fr Pelekh (??); Festyvali (vystupy ta promovy); Communists in Robitnychyi Dim, Lapchuk from KGB; 1927 - Canadian Convention, Communists planned to take over; creation of BUC - Fr. Semchuk (??), Mohyla Institute, political fights, Mamchur (???) the teacher, Bilins’kyi (??), Bayda (??), Stratiichuk (??); Samostiinyky and issues between Orthodox and Catholics; CUC creation, Zherebko; Fr. Savchuk; Danylo Skoropads’kyi’s picture; Mykhailo Het’man; Shapoval; Mykhailo Soltys (??); WWII - Korchinski was conscripted in the Army.

Part 3: WWII - selling war bonds (??) in 1941; was sent to Vancouver; London, UCSA (Ukrainian Canadian Service Association); Khmara (??); Panchuk and the DP question; Chaplains Fr. Savchuk and Fr. Pelekh; Dr. Korol’s’kyi (??); Sichovi stril’tsi, UNO; CUC Congresses; Fr. Izhyk (??); Ukrains’kyi Narodnyi soiuz; a lawyer Dr. Luzhyns’kyi (??); Volodymyr Bosyi; Fr. Savchuk, BUC; Fr. Kushnir; Senator Yuzyk; Het’mantsi; Korchinski’s federal job in 1967; he is married and has 4 children.

Part 1: Born in 1906 in a village of Pidhorody, Rohatyn povit; came to Canada in 1928, to Saskatoon; immediately got a job in the organization of Ukrainian Catholics; Kosar; was offered to be a member of the Strilets’ka hromada but he could not accept; before his emigration was persecuted; Oleksa Hnatiuk; Ivashchuk; he worked at the Hnatiuk’s restaurant; Sushko taught them History; Verbyts’kyi; visit of Konovalets’ in 1939; Strilets’ka hromada; General Korbanovych (??); Fr. Ivashko (??); priests against nationalism back then; CUC, Prof. Simpson and Prof. Chekailo (??); Het’mantsi; Samostiinyky; Novyi shliakh; attepts to free Bandera in 1934.

Part 2: Raising money to free Bandera in 1934; Novyi shliakh; Dr. Pohoretskyi (??); big UNO community; Ridna shkola; 1st Head - Kotliarovs’kyi; Konopka was on committees; Kosar; UNO; Mrs. Pavliuchenko; WWII, Communists; Prof. Pavliuchenko; Sushko and Hrybins’kyi were sent to Ukraine surreptitiously; secret channels of information from Ukraine; Vasylyshyn, member of UVO and OUN; Banerivtsi; DPs and their political affiliations, Proshak; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO.

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.