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This series includes records and objects associated with the Zarsky family, particularly anniversaries and weddings. It consists of 3 apostolic blessings, an embroidered tray, and wedding artefacts, including the wedding dress, veil, gloves, vines, groom's tie, ring holder, and cake topper.

Nikola Yakemchuk, his wife, Domka (Pawliuk) and daughter Yelena arrived in Canada about 1895 and settled in the Hairy Hill area of Alberta. Prior to departing from Chernivtsi, Nikola had made an agreement with his brother Petro that when he became sufficiently established in Canada, he would send for him. This event occurred two years later.

Petro, his wife Yelena (Cherweniuk), their two sons Vasil and Nikola and daughter Anna arrived in Montreal via cargo ship from Romania in 1897, a voyage of six weeks duration. Due to the hardship of this journey, the infant Nikola died and rather than have their infant buried at sea, Yelena pretended to nurse him so that he could be buried on land upon their disembarkation. Following this, Petro, his wife and remaining family, traveled by train to Edmonton, Alberta where Nikola met them. The two brothers farmed together for several years in Hairy Hill during which time Anna, too, died. Petro and Yelena then moved to their permanent home site on a two and one-half section farm near Kahwin, Alberta. They would lose two more children: Vasilina at age seven and Anna at age three. In time the farm passed to their son Dmitro and after his death, remained in his family until March of 1975 when it was sold to the George Kapitsky family.

1. E.W.Yarenco. “Steve and Lucy Hrabec.”
2. Hryhorii i Stefaniia Yopyk. “Shcho stalosia z koronoiu korolia Danyla?” Edmonton, osin', 1977.
3. H. Yopyk. [about Iv. Borukh]

The series consists of work books of different organizations containing minutes, membership rolls, addresses, extensive financial records, sometimes also memoirs and history of these organizations, etc. Some books contain records of several organizations that used the book over the years.
There are records of the following organizations:

• Товариcтво Проcвіта в Едмонтоні
• Ukrainian National Hall, Edmonton (Український народний дім в Едмонтоні)
• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Society in Edmonton (Українсько греко-католицьке Товариство в Едмонтоні)
• Boyan Society (Товариство співацько-аматорське "Боян")
• Читальня ім. Маркіяна Шашкевича
• Союз Гетьманців державників
• Клюб українcьких Монархістів в Едмонтоні
• Братство Милосердія св. Йосафата в Копернік, Альберта
• Український запомоговий комітет в Альберті (Ukrainian Relief Committee of Alberta)
• Канадійська Січова організція
• Українське товариство св. о. Николая
• Братство українців католиків
• Українське запомогове брацтво св. Николая в Канаді (Ukrainian Mutual benefit Association of St Nicholas of Canada)
• Український католицький союз
• Український греко-католицький союз, Едмонтон
• Рідна школа, Едмонтон
• Хор "Думка", Едмонтон
• Оркестра
• Bazaar
• Книга протоколів парахіальних зборів у справі будови нової церкви в Мандері.
• Українська бурса Івана Франка у Веґревіль, Альберта
• and several unknown organizations.

The series also contains Ukrainian National Hall library records.
There is also a photo of Dmytro and Angela Prokop.

The series consists of letters, reviews, minutes, bulletins, etc. of the following organizations:

• Ukrainian Language Association [later: Ukrainian Lang. Assoc. of the Alberta Modern Lang. Council (Alberta Teachers' Assoc.)]
• Ukrainian Canadian Teachers' Association
• Ukrainian Language Teachers' Organization
• Alberta Ethnic Language Teachers' Association
• Council of Ukrainian Schools (Рада української школи в Канаді, later - Ukrainian Educational Council of Canada) (1970-1982)
• Ukrainian Self-Reliance League
• Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada, provincial executive
• Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta
• North and South Alberta Heritage Language Association
• Alberta Cultural Heritage Council
• Ukrainian Canadian Committee

In addition, the series contains:

• clippings of newspaper publications by Fiona Pelech,
• newspaper clippings about multiculturalism and bilingual education by other authors
• Fiona Pelech's correspondence
• Fiona Pelech's to do lists containing notes on Ukrainian community life, events, and meetings, etc.
• other materials

Six audiocassettes with recordings of the Ukrainian Self-Reliance League meeting on Aug 19-20, 1989 (3 cassettes) and Alberta Ethnic Language Teachers' Association meetings (including constitution debates, 2 cassettes); one cassette with a meeting of unknown organization.

The series consists of a biography of William Kostash, newspaper clipping of an article about him (in Ukrainian), and a list of descendants of Fred and Anna Kostash and educational degrees they received.

The series contains a handwritten biography, two notebooks of memoirs, typed "The Sawka family" story told by Wasyl Iwanec and translated by Michael Sawka, as well as a newspaper clippings of his bio and obituary.

The series contains founding documents and information about the Dr. Wasyl and Parasia Iwanec (Krysa) Endowment Fund.

This series includes materials collected during interviews with people in Wakaw, SK and with a person who has visited the Wakaw healer. This series includes 2 transcripts, 2 audio files, a business card, and 2 crystals.

The dance libretto and concepts for a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Voices of the Silenced, directed by Gordon Gordey. This dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Voices of the Silenced is a contemporary Ukrainian Canadian narrative folk dance theatre work with video exploring the unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as “enemy aliens” in Canada during WWI. These “enemy aliens” were subjected to having to carry registration identity papers, often pay monthly registration fees, and were under constant surveillance. Of the 80,000 who were registered under the authority of the Act, 8,579 were deemed: “enemy aliens”. The majority of “enemy aliens” were Ukrainians and were arrested and interned in 26 makeshift encampments located mostly in Canada’s frontier hinterlands. They were forced into hard labour clearing land for roads, building bridges, and building the railway.

Video-recordings related to Ivan Demianiuk's case

Gordon Gordey documents his dance concepts and director’s vision, including performance photographs, for the creation of 15 contemporary original dance works in a collection titled Vechornytsi, Life is a Cabaret. These danceworks were created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada.

15 Concept/Librettos and Premieres of short contemporary danceworks at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton took place from January 2007 to November 2012.

1. Leonid Vertyporokh. “11-ta Svitova Sesiia Ukraїns'koho Zhinotstva”
   v Toronti.” 1973.
2. Illia Vytrykush. “Zolotyi iuvilei piatdesatyrichcho svashchenstva Vsesvitloho Ottsia Prelata Petra Kamenets'koho.
3. Ol'ha Voitsenko. “Dosiahnennia ukrains'koї zhinky v Kanadi.”
   Ivan Varanytsia. “Dontsov o formotvorets’ novoi dukhovnosty.” (Liga Vyzvolennia Ukrainy).
4. Veterans’kyi Viddil UCAMA

The series consists of records related to teaching Ukrainian language, culture and folklore, and includes course outlines, assignment and test designs, reading lists, correspondence with students, fieldwork projects, and other records starting from early course offerings in the end of 1970s, and until early 2000s. The courses covered are: Ukrainian Folk Song, Ukrainian Folk Prose, Ukrainian Calendar Customs, Rites of Passage, Folk Bilief, Material Culture, and Early Ukrainian Canadian Culture. There are also materials related to graduate students, master and PhD, whom Dr. Medwidsky supervised, and to their theses and dissertations.

The series contains materials related to history of Ukrainians. These are published articles and manuscripts by Michael W. Martyn, Alexander Royick, Zenon S. Pohorecky, Ann Forest, Albert Mohr, G.N. Emery, Alexander MalyckyOrest T. Martynowych, Raymond Charuk, Manoly Lupul, Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, Diane I. Hodgson, Andrij Makuch, Myrna Kostash, M. Marunchak, Myron Momryk.
It also includes the following publications:

• John C. Lehr Ukrainian Vernacular Architecture in Alberta 1872, 1976 Manuscript and publication
• The Village Modem 1988
• Roman Fodchuk and Associates Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village Site Development Master Plan 1977
• John Patrick Day. The Ukrainian Bookstore and the Koermann Block August 1978 198 p.
• Alexander Bunka. Early Ukrainian Settlers in Saskatchewan 1967
• Ukrainians in Alberta: Shandro, Bellis, Thorhild, Smoky Lake, Myrnam 1942-1970
• Presunka. My Canada Series 1968-1971, N 1-36 + Bicultural Retreat 1966-1971
• History of Ukrainians in Canada (brochures) 1953-1986
• Vita. A Ukrainian Community. Books 1-3 1977-1981
• Ukrainian Toronto Media. A study 1982
• The Great Pioneers who Cleared and broke the Virgine Land of Josephburg, 1867-1967
• Publications by Myrna Kotash and Sandra Gwyn in the "Saturday Night" periodical, 1972, 1974.
• A folder "Miscellaneous" contains some materials from an oversized package that came from UCAMA with a note to add it to the Lupul collection.

The series comprises photographs of the UWOC (ОУК) conventions, the "Fall Tea" meeting and an exhibition. It also includes a journal publication about historical reconstruction of women's costumes held in 1968.

The series consists of records related to various aspects of Ukrainian studies at the University of Alberta, including the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Slavic Department, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, estanblishing of various courses, associations, area studies, etc., and includes correspondence, meeting minutes, course proposals, joint projects and other documents.