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Bukowsky, Nikander
CA BMUFA 0021-A-B-2008.024.c021-022 · Item · 17 Aug. 1983
Part of CIUS oral history project

Part 1: Born in 1905. Came to Canada from Volyn’ in 1929; he is Orthodox; came together with his cousin. His father returned from WWI in 1920. Interviewee was making boots for living.

Part 2: Was conscripted in the Polish army; was forced to attend courses while in the army; a special battalion near Warsaw where reserve officers were prepared; his was to Canada: Poland - Germany - Belgium - France - Halifax; had to have $200 in hands; from Halifax to Saskatchewan on a train; Communists; Strilets’ka Hromada, choir; Catholic vs Orthodox communities; Kosaryk (???) as the Head of the Strilets’ka Hromada; UNO.

Part 3: Building the Hall; Vashchuk (???); divochyi hurtok within the Strilets’ka Hromada; Communists as enemies; CUC; polkovnyk Konovalets’, polkovnyk Sushko; UNO; Aktsiia Natsional’noi iednosti in 1932; Ukrains’ke Natsional’ne ob’iednannia Kanady; Het’mantsi; Sichovi Stril’tsi; Ukrains’kyi robitnychyi dim; Senator Yuzyk as a Head of the Ukrains’ki Natsionalisty.

Part 4: Yuzyk and Komitet vidrodzennia UNO; mel’nykivtsi; Sviatoslav Frolyk (???); 1st Congress of CUC in 1943; changes in organizations over time; CUC; Novyi shliakh, Mykhailo Pohorets’kyi (???); changing the headquarters of Novyi shliakh; Kanadiiskyi ukrainets’ in the 1930s; Pavliuchenko (???) was building churches; organizing the 1st ever Ukrains’ka kredytova spilka in 1939.