Part 1: Nee - Slyva; born on August 25, 1934 in Sudbury, ON; her father was a gold miner, family lived in Beardmore (??), Geraldton (??), Windsor; graduated from the University of Windsor; her husband’s name is Orest; her mother came to Canada from around Ternopil’ in 1921, her father came in 1930 from Boikivshchyna; her father was a professional dancer and had a University degree; her parents married in 1933; father was a member of the Labor Temple; Natasha married in 1962, had a son in 1968; WWII - she knitted scarves for the Army; discrimination against Ukrainians; choir, orchestra, plays in Windsor - choir conductor Korchmarovskyi (??), Nick Stefaniuk; plays: Natalka-Poltavka, Zaporozhets za Dunaiem, etc; mandolin orchestra in Labor Temple; DPs; Shevchenko, Franko concerts; she graduated from the Ontario College of Education; she got fired because she had a divorce in 1961; Ukrainian dance; all her family belongs to UNO.
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: Was born in what today is Canora, SK, on July 2, 1902; his parents came to Canada in 1900 from the Borshchiv povit, village of Pylypche (??); they were Greek-Catholic, but Roman converted to Orthodoxy; finished School in 1915; internment of Ukrainians during WWI; Orthodoxy; SUS creation; Strilets’ka hromada; Ukrainian Communists; Het’mantsi; UNO; DPs; WWI internment; Ukrainian school; Orthodox theatre group; Dukhobory; Roman went to USA; reciting humoresky.
Part 1: Petro Lazarovych (?); choir, soloists; speeches (toasts) during some event dedicated to Svarich; singing Ukrainian songs; Instytut Sv. Ivana in Vegreville (?); Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Svarich was a secretary of several schools.
Part 2: Speeches during an event dedicated to Svarich; Svarich helping DPs; Mnohaia lita song.
Part 3: 1895 - World Exposition in Lviv; Svarich was delegated there as a schoolboy; plays; getting lost in Lviv; Kostiushko and revolution; Ivan Mateiko painted the revolution;Rudolf; was elected a candidate from a radical party (?); serving in an army; 1896 - his Birthday celebration; songs singing; reading memoirs of Zvarich.
Part 4: Svarich about learning English; childhood, school, desire to study; gymnasium.
Part 5: Posmertna promova Zvarycha after his funeral in Narodnyi Dim
Sections of incomprehensible sound starting from 3.02 through 8.55, further through 12.30 and till the end.
Part 6: Singing songs (“Dyvlius’ ia na nebo” and others) with a piano accompaniment - those are the songs that Petro Zvarich recorded at the Conservatory of Prof. Berezenets’. These songs will be performed on February 14 in Victoria (?) by the Society SUMC (?) by Victoria Meletiuk (?) and Morris Lourier (??). Victoria was chosen as a Queen of SUMC in Winnipeg in 1963. She is a known violinist (?), piano-player and dancer. She is currently a student at the Arts Department, at St. John’s Institute. Morri Lourier (?) speaks only French and English but ings Ukrainian songs; he is a conductor of the French choir but takes part in Ukrainian concerts. Songs: “Dumka”, “I sad zatsviv”, “Vladyko neba i zemli”. Songs from the opera “The May Night”; a speech of Ivan Baran.
Part 7: A recording of a Concert; Svarich came to Canada in 1900 from Halychyna; Petro Ostyniuk (??) sings a song in English and Ukrainian; Svarich about his mother’s artistic talents; she wants him to be a priest; he was conscripted in the army and came back in 1899; they went to Canada; in 1903 Basilians settled next to them, and his mother helped them; in 1913 went to visit the youngest daughter they left in the Old Country; in 1915 sold their farm and moved to Edmonton; in 1919 his father died and his mother died in 1935; in 1918, when Ukrainian Orthodox Church was founded in Canada, Svarich and his relatives joined it but his mother preferred to remain Catholic so that she could be buried together with her husband; conflict between his mother and a Catholic priest; mother’s cancer; leaving money for churches; mother’s death and funeral.
The goal of the “Saving Ukrainian Canadians’ Heritage” oral history project was to document stories of Ukrainian pioneers in the Prairie Provinces. The project was led by CYMK, and its digitization and revival are a collaboration between the Kule Folklore Centre and the Ukrainian Museum of Canada-Saskatoon. It consists of hundreds of hours of interviews conducted in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario from 1971-1972. There are also 700 photographs: some historical, and others – from the time of the project.
"Under the federal government sponsored plan for student employment "Opportunities for Youth", the Canadian Ukrainian Youth Association is sponsoring project "S.U.C.H."- Save the Ukrainian Canadian Heritage. This Association, which may be briefly designated as "C.Y.M.K" is a nationally based youth organization founded in 1931. Its prime aim is to foster, promote and develop in the national life of Canada the finest cultural elements and traditions of the Ukrainian people. The national office of CYMK, located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, serves as an information bureau, a programme source, public relations office and an organizer of various workshops, conferences and conventions.
"Project SUCH is research oriented. The main objective is to record and collect information and artifacts of historical and ethnological significance from various Ukrainian communities across eastern and Western Canada. This will be primarily accomplished by recorded interviews with Ukrainian pioneers and through public meetings to turn the attention of local youth and adults to the precious nature of their heritage.
"Specifically, the research will be carried out by talking to pioneer settlers, recording folklore, songs, traditions and pioneer accounts of life in Canada, collecting books, records and accounts of historical interest from the Ukrainian community.
"Fifteen students will be doing field work in Ukrainian communities throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario for the summer months, with an additional student coordinator in Saskatoon overseeing the entire project.
"The necessity for work of this nature has been evident for some time but lack of funds has impeded the realization to a great extent. This project as SUCH will provide and opportunity for our young students to make a valuable contribution to Canadian culture- to study the process of acculturation- preservation and adaptation of one's cultural heritage.
"As a result of this work various groups and agencies will benefit, e.g., universities, provincial tourist bureaus, Dominion and Provincial Archives and Museums, local Ukrainian community organizations and public libraries. It is therefore, sincerely hoped that the communities will welcome these young students and where necessary, provide assistance and support."
A segment of a handwritten fiction manuscript about Robert and Victoria (pp. 209-404, chapters VIII-XII) with an index, and some additional notes at the end. The author is not indicated by it seems to be Doris Yanda's handwriting.
Reports of Doris Yanda, a head of women's page editorial board of the "Ukrainian Voice" newspaper.
Materials related to workshops that Doris Yanda held at her house and other locations; membership lists, attendance rolls, handouts, etc. Materials of the Ukrainian Weaving Guild, Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta, and other heritage weavers' organizations used by Doris Yanda for her workshops.
Books and magazines form Yanda's collection include:
- Siryi, Iurii. Ukraina zemlia moikh bat'kiv. New York, 1952
- Velyka Istoriia Ukrainy. Vydannia Ivana Tyktora. Manitoba, Winnipeg
- Woycenko, Ol'ha. U rokovyny 70-littia Zhinochoho rukhu. Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady: Alberta, Edmonton, 1954
- Iliustrovanyi Kaliendar "Ukrains'koho Holosu": prysviachenyi organizatsiinii pratsi ukrains'koho zhinotstva v Kanadi 1934. Ukrains'kyi Holos, Ukrainian Publishing Company of Canada, Ltd.: Manitoba, 1934
- Iliustrovanyi kaliendar "Ukrains'koho Holosu" 1952. Ukrains'kyi Holos, Ukrains'ka vydavnycha spilka v Kanadi: Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1952
- Kaliendar Kanadiis'koho Farmera 1952. Kanadiis'kyi farmer: Manitoba, 1952
- Iliustrovanyi kaliendar "Ukrains'koho Holosu" na 1932 rik. Ukrains'kyi Holos, Ukrains'ka vydavnycha spilka v Kanadi: Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1932
- Chast' kaliendarna: Kaliendar "Ukrans'koho Holosu". Ukrains'kyi Holos, Ukrains'ka vydavnycha spilka v Kanadi: Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1930
- Iliustrovanyi Kaliendar "Ukrains'koho Holosu": prysviachenyi organizatsiinii pratsi ukrains'koho zhinotstva v Kanadi 1934. Ukrains'kyi Holos, Ukrainian Publishing Company of Canada, Ltd.: Canada, Manitoba, 1934
- Nova khata: [zhurnal dlía plekannia domashn'oi kul'tury]. Kooperatyva "Ukrains'ke narodnie mystetstvo." Europe: Ukraine, L'viv obl., L'viv, 1925-1939 (43 issue)
