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Gayowsky, Irene
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c094 · Item · 26 Jan. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Hawrysh, Nicholas
CA BMUFA 0021-E-H-2008.024.c100 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Kindrachuk, Fedir
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c105 · Item · 25 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: His family was Catholic but converted into Orthodoxy; he has a BA; attended a regular Canadian school (teachers Havryniuk (??); Fr. Savchuk); all students were Ukrainian but had to hide Ukrainian books outside of school; Ukrainian classes from 4pm till 5pm; after 8 Grade went to High School in Saskatoon in 1928; Rector Yulian Stechyshyn (??) of the Mohyla Institute; Instytut Sheptyts’koho; Tymashchuk (??) from Ottawa; Terishchuk (??); Margus (??); ????forb (??); History lectures at the Institute; about 120 students of both sexes; student life; SUS; competition with UNO; SUMC; Bohdan Panchuk; he started teaching near Saskatoon in town Lenya (??) from 1934-35 through 1942-43; CUC; Panchuk; DPs; Vynnychenko - chlen rady; Fr. Stopniak (??); Ukrainian Communists; Institute now and then; library in Narodnyi Dim; “Ukrains’kyi holod”, “Vistnyk”; SUS helping; Hasan (??) the conductor at the Institute, baritone, used to sing in the Koshyts’ choir; change of the school organization - decline of Ukrainian schools.

Part 2: Ukrainians schools “Kolomyia” and “Kyiv”; 4 Ukrainian schools run by Knashchuk (??), Kystiuk (??), Dymeryha (??), and Kindrachuk; very active Ukrainian life; conscription issues during WWII; Stechyshyn - Head of SUS in Saskatoon; Sechuk (??); Dr. Boykovych (??); Dr. Drygan; Hnatyshyn (??); Stechyshyn; Stratiychuk (??).

Knehinicki, John
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c008-009 · Item · 29 Nov. 1982 - 6 Oct. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1 and Part 2: Born on June 11, 1909 in a village of Rukhiv. Greek-Catholic faith. His father decided to come to a farm in Canada (Manitoba) when John was 6 months old. His mother died when he finished the 4th grade. Had to do all the chores around the house. His father did not belong to any organization because he was illiterate. At 18 y.o. left home and went to earn money, but there was the Depression already. Soup kitchen for unemployed. There were some organizations during Depression. City gave little work for married people but not for singles. Those could be sent to work on a farm for $5/month. John was working this way on various farms through Saskatchewan for about 10 years. In 1939 he went to Ontario, [Port Arthur] where he worked in a bush. Those who were able to bribe, got better strips of the bush. Did not want to join the army when the war started. So, he went to Winnipeg. Worked on a dining car till they found out who he was. Got a uniform in 1943. Underwent training in [Shiro], MB. From there he was sent to Newfoundland. But he ran away to Regina to hide. When the war was over he turned himself up and got 9 months of detention but was released after 4.5 months. From 1949 worked at a CPR.

Kolasky, John
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c106-107 · Item · 8 May. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in Cobalt, Ontario, on October 5, 1915; family name was initially Koliaska; soon after his birth family moved North, to a farm, where there were 3 other Ukrainian families, Poles - their name became Polonized; in Timmins the only Ukrainian organization was Ukrainian Labor Farmer Temple Association; John attended Ukrainian school there for about 2 years (he was 8-9 y.o.); then went back to the farm; left his home in 1932, went to Timmins, then, after his father was hurt in a mine, went to Ottawa, stayed at a place for unemployed single men; worked in a bakery, then apprenticed to a printer and paper hanger (??); in 1939 went to Toronto and then moved to Winnipeg in 1941; by that time he finished grade 10; worked at a machine shop and studied; in 1942 he finished grade 12 and did 1 year of the United College (??), and after that went to Saskatoon where completed his BA, and then did his MA in History in Toronto; his parents came in 1913 from Bukovyna and were Orthodox; Cobalt, Timmins - pro-Socialist areas, centers of radicalism; Ivan Panchyshyn was interned from Cobalt during WWI; his father was a farmer and a miner during winters; a process of becoming a Communist; people in the Canadian establishment who were Communists; lies about the USSR, Duranti; his mother and other women in Timmins belonged to Ukrainian pro-Communist women’s organizations; Polish priest Frank Selynski (??); Jewish-Ukrainian relations, Misha Korol’ (??); Dave Kashton (??); Dubrovsky (??); Stewart Smith - leader of Communist Party; ULFTA; Matthew Popovych and his article “Za bolshevizatsiiu” in 1931; Prokopchuk; Danylo Lobai and Toma Kobzai (??); Shatul’s’kyi; Popovych; Boychuk; Nemizivs’kyi (???).

Part 2: Shatulskyi (??); Kobzei (??), Lobay (??); Simbay (??); John Wier (??); Irchan; Pohoreckyi (??); WWII and Communists in Canada; he was on a Provincial Committee of the Association of the United Ukrainian Canadians, helped to organized a trio of Myroslav Stychynskyi (??); was a member of Progressive Party (PP) Club [Labor Progressive Party, later became a Communist Party) at the U of Saskatchewan; party members George Taylor (??) and Clifford Pit (??); WWII conscription among Ukrainians in Canada; Svystun; Orest Savchuk; UNO; Samoskiinyky; Kushnir; CUC; internment of Communists; Raymond Davis/Shohan (??); Veletskyi (??); Workers Benevolent Association; Strilets’ka Hromada; Svystun and Khrushchev; Tim Buck (??); Kolasky went to Ukraine in 1963 till 1965 - disillusionment; Kravchuk and Prokopchyk (??); Kolasky wrote a book after his visit - the scandal; Biletskyi (??).

Part 3: His book and the scandal around it; AUC (Association of Ukrainian Canadians) name change; DPs coming and Canadian Communists being against it - Prokopchyk report to the Convention; a bomb in a building (??); Guzenko (??); UNO; DPs matters; officer Robertson (??); Simpson (??) and his interest in Ukraine; Watson Crocomlain (???); Prof. Pavliuchenko; Mykhailo Hetman (??); ULFTA and Hetmantsi; Bosyi (??) in Montreal; Dr. Mandryka; Vasylyshyn from UNO; Julian Stechyshyn as the most able of brothers, Mykhailo Stechyshyn, Myroslav Stechyshyn; John Solomon (??); Panchuk; Hlynka and Kushnir supporting DPs coming to Canada; Volodymyr Kokhan; DPs’ impact on Ukrainian community; the fate of Ukrainians in Canada; Ted Kardash (??); Soviet Secret Police, sending books through Society for Cultural Relations.

Part 4: Sending books through the Society for Cultural Relations; stealing documents in Ukraine; Dziuba; he was arrested in Ukraine; writing to Senator Yuzyk and Mykola Hnativ in Winnipeg, Stechyshyn, Pohoreliv; Dr. Kysylevs’kyi (??); Shevchenko monument as a means of raising prestige.

Kolysher, Peter
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c108 · Item · 19 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Real name - Kolyshir; came to Canada on June 8, 1928, to Saskatoon; was conscripted to the army in 1925-1926; was born in a village near Kolomyia; was born in 1903; there were many people in Saskatoon from his village; Prosvita Hall in Saskatoon; Mohyla Institute; Strilets’ka Hromada; 1932 - Bratske Tovarystvo katolykiv; Bosyi in Hetmanska hromada, Kolysher was its secretary; members paid $3 per year; Het’manets’ moved to Saskatoon in 1937; Julian Stechyshyn; Zarebko (??) and Lypyns’kyi; CUC and Het’mantsi; bezrobitna orhanizatsiia pry parafii; Fr. Hrebiniuk; CUC, Pravoslavna hromada, UNO, Hetmanska orhanizatsiia in Saskatoon; Bratstvo ukrainskykh katolykiv; Bosyi; a visit of Het’manets’; Kosar; Ukrainian Communists; rentin Book store for meetings of UNO and Strilets’ka hromada; at a farm near Evton (??) organized a viddil of ??????; BUC (??) appeared in 1932; Panchuk.

Part 2: (talking about people on a picture): Fedir Konoval’chuk; Fr. Mykhaylo Palekh (??); Petro Kulyshir; Koval’chuk; Vasyl’tsiv; Kushniryk; Stefan Hnalyi (??) - his son is married to Savaryn’s daughter; Shalyi (??); Sasyns’kyi (??); Ivan Kostiuns’kyi (??); Saranchuk; Fedir Ralyk (??); Ivan Shchublyk (??); Ivan Derba; Mykola Shabaga (??); Petro Krylets’kyi (???); creation of BUC in Saskatoon in 1932; Samostiinyky and Orthodox church; CUC creation, Fr. Kushnir; Prof. George Simpson; Corconal (??); Dr. Pavliuchenko; Prof. Andrusyshyn; Congresses of CUC; Ukrainian Canadians during WWI and WWII; DPs coming to Canada (expectations and reality); meetings of the Het’mantsi; Mykhailo Het’man; women in Het’mans’ka orhanizatsiia (Anna Ravs’ka) but no women’s section; Bosyi; Dobrovil’ne Tovarystvo was created on November 5, 1936 (parafiial’nis pravy) as a helping medium, Pushchak (??) - one of the founders of BUC; Kosar; Kredytova spilka in 1937; Vasyl’tsiv was the Head; Tkachuk; helping Karpats’ka Ukraina.

Korda, Wasyl
CA BMUFA 0021-K-2008.024.c115 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

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.

Nemilowich, Myron
CA BMUFA 0021-L-O-2008.024.c134 · Item · 29 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Born on November 28, 1910 in Drohobych; Greek-Catholic; his father came to Canada (Winnipeg) in 1926; his father’s brothers were in Canada before that; Myron had 5 brothers; his mother stayed in the Old Country and father remarried in Canada; Myron came to Canada in 1927; Myron worked in a shop; he belonged to the Robitnychyi Dim because his family belonged to it; Labay; discrimination against Ukrainians; he married in 1939 (wife’s nee Oryskevych); DPs; Myron belonged for 2 years to Workers Benevolent Association; he has 6 children; DPs; his cousin belonged to UPA.

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.

Pawluk, Myroslava
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c143 · Item · 30 Nov. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Nee - Olha Gerenychuk (??); born on December 27, 1910 in Kodnia, Zhytomyr region; Orthodox; finished a 7 year Ukrainian school in Kodnia; came to Canada with parents and 3 other siblings in 1928; Ukrainian churches in Zhytomyr in the 1920s; Kodnia-Kyiv-Moscow-Riga-England-Halifax; settled in Winnipeg; started working as a seamstress; hardships of buying a farm; after 5 years on a farm moved to Toronto, to a factory; she went to Institute Prosvita (participating at the amature theatre), Narodnyi Dim, UNO; assimilation efforts; conflicts with Ukrainian Communists before WWII; married in 1937 with Stepan Pavliuk; moving to London during WWII; British Museum Library; Dr. K; Lotman (??) and his journal against the USSR; Lord Gescal (??) and his “History of Ukraine”; Davydovych; Gescal’s tragic death; she returned to Canada in 1945; manuscript of Gescal.

Part 2: Gescal (??); interest of non-Ukrainians in the Ukrainian cause; WWII events and admiration with the USSR; she worked as a typist; Panchuk in London - Ukrainian Veterans’ Club; Hania Khryplyva (??); Kozicky (??) the Secretary; Hania Panchuk; Fr. Savchuk; Fr. Horoshko; Fr. Symchych; CUC; Davydovych; Dr. K shut down the Bureau and left for Canada; UCSA; Catholics vs Orthodox; life in London; she came back to Canada in April 1945; army life of her husband.

Pawluk, Olga
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c159 · Item · 30 Nov. 1982
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Part 1: Travel to Halifax at the end of WWII after 7 years of absence; she settled in Toronto; joined UNO with her husband Stepan; creating Ukrainian Veterans Association; Panchuk; Stepan helping the veterans; Pohorets’kyi (?); in 5 years, her husband with a partner bought a hotel; conflicts inside the Ukrainian community; Ukrainians coming from the WWII tried to catch up with their Canadian fellows in terms of material goods.

Pizag, Peter
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c151 · Item · 30 Mar. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in 1909, in Ukraine; Creek-Catholic; there was Prosvita in their village; he finished 7 grades Ukrainian school in his village; Ukrainians fighting Poles; his brothers left for Canada before WWI; Poles came in 1922-23; Peter came to Canada in 1927, to his brother in Winnipeg, then moved to Regina, worked for CPR for 14 years; then worked in a hotel in BC in 1942; in Regina, there was UNO, Catholic Ukrainian church; Peter belonged to UNO; Communists in Regina; Ukrains’ka natsionalistychna partiia formed after WWII; Ukrainian parish in Victoria after WWII created by Bondar’, Kozachenko, Kohut, Pizag, Panchuk; Communists in Victoria; DPs; he did not work for 4 years during the Depression, life and work during Depression; Pacification in Ukraine.

Part 2: Jews and Ukrainians in his village; his route of emigration: Lviv-Warsaw-Gdansk-Copenhagen-England-Halifax; Bila partiia

Pukesh, William
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c221-222 · Item · 21 - 27 Oct. 1983
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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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Romanow, Maria
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c156 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
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Part 1:She came to Canada, Saskatoon in March 1911 from a Ukrainian village Susny (??); got off the ship in St. John, then went to Winnipeg, worked in Winnipeg in the “Corona” Hotel; then went to Saskatoon and worked in a restaurant; she went to Denmark first, worked there at a farm; when she came to Canada she was 21; WWI, discrimination against Ukrainians in Canada, internment; Russians in her village - a song she sang to them; Myroslav Sichyns’kyi; her husband, Dmytro Romanow, was from the same village but they married in Saskatoon; Bishop Budka’s visit; Orthodox church; Svystun; arrest of Bishop Budka; Ievhen Andrukhovych; Bishop visiting her house 3 times; Ukrainian life in Saskatoon from 1911 on, Narodnyi dim; Vasyl’ Semuk (??); Vasyl’ Svystun; Ukrainian identity; internment of Ukrainians during WWI; Bishop Budka.

Part 2: Bishop Budka; Mohyla Institute; Vasyl’ Svystun; the Stechyshyns brothers; Orthodox Church in Canada; Strilets’ka hromada; OUN; working for Red Cross during WWII; Narodnyi dim; Kosar; Dr. Pavliuchenko; Konovalets’ in Canada; General Sikevych (??); Danylo Skoropads’kyi; BUC; Samostiinyky, Fr. Samchuk; Karpats’ko Ukraina; CUC, Prof. Simpson, Dr. Pavliuchenko; DPs.

Sametz, Petro
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c164-166 · Item · 28 Dec. 1982
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on June 4, 1883 or 1895 (provides different years in English and Ukrainian) in Golshchava village, Terebovlia povit; his wife was Kateryna Bambukh (?); Orthodox; came to Canada in 1910; finished 4 grades of the Lviv gymnasium; he came to Canada along; his uncles came to Canada in 1896; in 1906 he went to Germany for 11 months to work at a factory to save money for his education; in August 1910 left his village for Canada; he travelled together with Julian Stechyshyn; Hamburg - Quebec - Winnipeg - Dauphin, ship “Prince Albert”; worked on a farm, then railway; in 1913 went to a college, became a teacher; Vasyl Svystun his friend; Ukrainian community in Dauphin: a socialist newspaper Robochyi narod, in 1911 subscribed to Ukrains’kyi holos; Oleksa Shtyk was a choir conductor; tensions with a Greek-Catholic priest; in 1918 Bishop Budka visited their area; inspector Hawryluk (?); the Orthodox Church movement; Fr. Savchuk; Vasyl’ Kudryk the 1st editor of Ukrainskyi holos; Metropolitan Sheptytskyi’s visit; Fr. Rozdol’skyi (?) was sent back to Europe for being married; Sametz started teaching in 1914; WWII; Ukrains’ke Hreko-Pravoslavne bratstvo, Metropolitan Platon, Bishop Oleksandr.

Part 2: Arkhymandryt karpatoros; Ukrainian Orthodox church in Canada; Archbishop Oleksandr; Havryil Shevchenko from Ukraine came to him to offer to become a priest; Sametz quit teaching, moved to Saskatoon and in 1920 went first to Winnipeg together with Savchuk, Sartychuk (??), Yarema (??), teacher Shklianka, Julian Stechyshyn, and then to Saint Paul (??) to meet Metropolitan Germanos (??) from a Kyivan Patriarchate; they studied at the Collegium with mostly Greek-Catholics; the Syrian Metropolitan Germanos helping Ukrainians in Canada to create the Orthodox Church; Fr. Savchuk, Prof. Ohienko; Sobor; Arsenych (the 1st Ukrainian lawyer), tensions between Russian and Ukrainian churches over property; Bukovinian Orthodox Church; Archbishop Ivan Teodorovych and Sobor in 1924 - Ukrainization of the church services.

Part 3:In 1923 Sametz came to Canora, SK; his parishes in Manitoba; Kulychkovskyi (??); Fr. Kudryk (??); Dr. Sushko (??); 2 wave of immigration, after the vyzvolni zmahannia; Canadian Communists; Zaporozhan (??); General Sikevych (??); 1933 - Orthodox Church and Dr. Zhuk (??) in the USA; Metropolitan Teodorovych; Sametz worked 3 years in Manitoba, then 3 years in Saskatchewan, then 3 years in BC; used to have a Russian church to work in; 5 years in Edmonton; Ivan Nykyforuk (??); Bishop Budka; Brothership (uprava); Samostiinyky and their relation to the Orthodox Church; SUS.

Part 4: SUMC, Tezhuk (??); 1935 - SUMC Congress in Saskatoon; UNO vs Samostiinyky vs BUC in the 1930s; visit of Konovalets, Sushko; Strilets’ka Hromada in Edmonton; teacher of the “Ridna shkola” Zavadiuk (??); Karpats’ka Ukraina; Stechyshyn; Pavlo Krats (??); Petliura’s murder; helping Ukraine during the Holodomor; General Sikevych (??); WWII - attitude towards Germany; cooperation between Orthodox and Catholics during WWII; in 1938 Sametz moved to Toronto; built church in 1949; Oleksa Derhaliuk (??); DPs, attitudes to previous immigration waves; his relative Sametz.

Part 5: Mel’nykivtsi vs banderivtsi; Bishop Skrypnyk; Sametz returned to Toronto in 1950 and stayed till 1964; Fr. Hlukhaniuk (??) at Niagara Falls; Horodenko school; getting the Russian church in Saskatoon; area Star near Edmonton, Savka the farmer, court case that lasted several years; Orthodox people: Mykhailo Luchkovych; Dr. Mydroban (??); Starchovskyi (??); Yaremko (??); Arsenych (??)

Sawchuk, Oryst
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c229 · Item · 7 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

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 (??).

Syroid, John
CA BMUFA 0021-S-2008.024.c186 · Item · 9 Feb. 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born on September 20, 1928 in Espanola; finished Secondary School; his brother Dmytro died accidentally; his mother was a teacher; local Hall was built in 1919; Ivan Khatych (??) the builder; Prosvita; his mother was Yustyna Onys’ka (??); local choir - teacher Mykhal’s’kyi (??); MUN in 1947-49 organized by Mykhailo Orekhivs’kyi (??); lost their Hall; Vasyl’ Stebnyk (??) was a Head of MUN; in 1946, their Paper Plant started working again; priests coming, using the Catholic Church in Espanola for Orthodox services; Fr. Opyima (??); Fr. Barabus (??); Fr. Karpins’kyi (??); Fr. Kalykh (??); Fr. Jurma (??); his father opened a store in 1928; other commerces in the city; Mr. Saiko (??) owning a food store; DPs; Syroid was a UNO member; is a member of Ukrainian Professional Club (?); Senator Yuzyk; Dr. Liupol (??); Syroid has 3 sons; his parents bringing an orphan relative from Halychyna and giving her education in Canada.

Part 2: Subscribing to the Ukrainian newspapers Oko, Postup, Svitlo
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