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Piniuta, Harry
CA BMUFA 0021-P-R-2008.024.c149-150 · Item · 5 May 1984
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Teaching at a Ukrainian Public School in Sandy Lake rural area, Teacher Ranko (Rankovs’kyi) in 1934-35; ; belonged to CUC, Narodnyi Dim; Stratiichuk (??); SUMC; 2nd wave of immigration; UNO, Pavliuchenko; Samostiinyky; Karpats’ka Ukraina; Piniuta was teaching during WWII; Fr. Hrihoriichuk.

Part 2: CUC activities; WWII - Ukrainian Servicemen Association; Panchuk and DPs; Mr. Yaniv (??); commissions in DP camps; after retirement he wrote a book about Ukrainians in Canada.

Part 3: Born on March 1, 1910 in Elphinstone, Manitoba; his father Dmytro came to Canada when he was 16, with his parents and 2 sisters, they landed in Quebec on July 25, 1900; his mother’s name Anna; they were from the village of Lypkivtsi, Husiatyn district (??); Greek-Catholics; school was organized in 1906, primarily a Ukrainian district; school went down in 1922 and they changed its name to Prince Royal School; bilingual school since 1916; his father subscribed to Ukrains’kyi holod and Kanadiis’ki Rusyny; Rus’ka Knyharnia; parokhia Sviatoho Ivana, Fr. Oleksiy, Fr. Riadkevych (??); teacher Ilya Mykytiuk; relations with the Poles; Orthodox Church in his area; Fr. Andrukhovych.

Part 4: His neighbor Mykola Tkachuk (??); Church Hall; Prosvita, plays, occasional speeches; Krushevych (??); Andrusiak (??); completed his High School education in 1929 due to sickness; in 1933-34 worked in a local store owned by a Ukrainian; Ivanchuk (??); Mrs. Zilych (??) - her husband was involved in Ukrainian movement in Brandon; Dnipro Club (about 20 students belonged to it); teachers Hladiuk, Mykytiuk; Tokar; Tymchak (??); Holyk (??); discrimination against Ukrainians.