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.
Born on January 20, 1933 in Sudbury. His wife Stella (nee Pankiv) was born in Saskatchewan. His father was born in Canada in 1909, mother in 1914. Was a member of the Ukrainian Farmer Labor Temple Association. Ukrainian school - teacher Tymoshevskyi (??). Was involved in a drama club. DPs and their relations with the Labor Temple. National conventions of the UAC in the later 1950s. Organization’s choirs and dance groups.
Part 1: Born in Saskatoon in 1908; Mohyla Institute; Catholics vs Orthodox; Convention of 1926; Samostiinyky; UNO.
Part 2: UNO; Strilets’ka Hromada; Sheptyts’kyi; Orthodox Church movement.
Part 1: Born on June 22, 1925. His parents came to Canada in 1910. Mother’s maiden name is Lakusta. They were first in the area of Vegreville and Two Hills and father worked in a mine; then they moved to the “East End of Vancouver”. Ukrainian Farmer Labor Temple Association Hall; Ukrainian school; Holodomor as a fiction; UNO.
Part 2: UNO; WWII, internment of the Communist community’s leaders; losing the Hall; Workers Benevolent Association; CUC.
Part 1: Financing Ukrainian and Jewish collections at the National Library of Canada (??), rare books.
Part 2: Born in Canada in 1908 (??). Parents went to the USA. Then returned to Toronto in 1939 (??). Wrote a book - was well received. His relations with Ukrainians. Ukrainian Famine.
Part 3: Stalin; he went after the WWII in Moscow as a Canadian correspondent; his visit to the USSR and Ukrainian SSR; McKenzi (???); Communists; DPs; antisemitism; characteristics of the interwar Ukrainian situation in Canada .
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 on May 6, 1903 in the village of Khraplyvtsi near Peremyshl’. His wife’s name is Kateryna Borovs’ka. Polish army in his village. Petliura’ s army. He is Catholic. Came to Canada with his brother in 1927 (from Gdansk to Halifax). Worked on a farm; then in 1932 went to Wellington (??); Ukrainians in Wellington (??); Prosvita & Natsionalne ob’iednannia in Wellington (??); Fr. Levonyts’kyi (??); Beniuk (??); local Communists; Kosar’s visit in 1942 (??); Prosvita; Komorovskyi (??) - the Head of the filia; helping Karpats’ka Ukraina; WWII events; UNO turning its building to the Ivan Franko Club; Vasyl’ Zaichyshyn (??); Dykun (??) - Communist; raising money for the Novyi Shliakh office; Ukrainian newspapers; DPs; only 5 UNO members (Kobylnyk, Kunskyi, Semchyshyn, Derewlany); local church.
Part 2: Local church; Fr. Bairak; Sheptyts’kyi; building Orthodox church in the 1950s, 6 Orthodox families in the beginning; Dim Ivana Franka existed till 1967 when the Ukrainian Centre was built; Ivankiv; 1955 - Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Kredytova Spilka; Banderivtsi; Petliura and Halychyna; Mr. Kozak and building a church; Dr. Rosnyts’kyi (??); Fr. Kusiv (??); Petliura’s death and Jews; Skoropads’kyi’s tour.
Anthony was born in ???? in Halychyna. Came to Canada in 1922 and till 1939 stayed in ?????
Jenny was born on September 2, 1913, in Sault Ste. Marie; parents came to Canada long before that. Ukrainian community and church; Fr. Kara (??); Ukrainian school; Jenny is Polish;
UNO; Ukrainian Hall; Robitnychyi Dim; local Communists; Ukrainian newspapers; 1930s - Depression; DPs; Polish Hall; iepyskop Budka consecrating the church; Budka chasing away the Poles from the church; Ukrainian Protestants.
Part 1: Born on February 14, 1916 in Chipman (45 miles to the East of Edmonton), went to school there, the 12th grade in a school in Edmonton; then in St. Joseph’s College - did not finish because of the WWII - went to the army, went to England (intelligence, IAF (???) service). His father was born in 1888 in ?????, came to Canada in 1894 with his mother, while his grandfather was the first Ukrainian in Canada. His mother came to Canada when she was 2 y.o. His parents married in 1915. His father worked worked in the first Ukrainian cooperative (??). Then his father and grandfather bought a farm; then in 1925 father bought a hotel (85 miles to the East from Edmonton). Has 4 sisters and 3 brothers still live in Edmonton. He was married, his son Ilarion lives in Edmonton. In Chipman, learned Ukrainian from the nuns teaching at the school. Belonged to the choir, druzhyna, Ukrainian Catholics; there was a Soiuz ukrainskoi molodi in Chipman; WWII, Canadian-Ukrainian efforts; Panchuk (??); camps of DPs; 2 years staying in Holland; Tarnavetskyi (??), Vasylyshyn (??); CUC; worked for Air Canada (??); troubles with Communists.
Part 2: Kosaryk (??); in 1978 he got his theology degree; strilets’ka hromada; was a member of CUC, Pravoslavna hromada; History of the Institute; buying off the Robinson College (??); Borets’kyi; Dr. Fylypchuk (??); Petro Bergman (??), Hanna Pidruchna (??), Symchych (??), Moroz (??); Dr. Pavlo Matsenko (??); activities of the Institute (choir, orchestra, etc); Elyniak’ community life; his mother was from the Kostiuks family, her father came to Canada in 1900; she belonged to a women’s choir.
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: 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: 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 (??).
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.
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.
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.
