Series 1 - Kalyna Country project

• 39 cm of textual records

The series contains working papers pertaining to the founding and development of the Kalyna Country project including Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Trust Society, Kalyna Country Destination Marketing organization, and other constitutive parts of the project. These documents include (but are not limited to):

• grant applications,
• meeting minutes,
• bylaws,
• development strategies,
• action plans,
• budgets,
• receipts of money transfers,
• variety of reports,
• certificate about changes of the objectives,
• lists of board directors, executive officers, and other members of the administration,
• extensive correspondence,
• materials of conference meetings,
• clippings of newspaper publications about Kalyna Country project,
• a brief history of the organization,
• biographies of prominent people, writers, politicians, and artists, born in the territories constituting the Kalyna Country Ecomuseum: Michael Gowda, Illia Kiriak, Kupchenko family, Kostash family, Joseph Yasenchuk, William Kurylek, Michael Luchkovich among others,
• set of visitor's and events guides and booklets.

There are also several folders organized by the creator containing the following documents:

• "An Alphabetical Concordance to the Central and East European Place Names in the Kalyna Country Ecomuseum Area"
• Native peoples (Cree)
• Fur trade posts and Missions
• "Centennial Landscaping and Highway beautification project east Yellowhead Highway Corridor," a brief prepared by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Alberta Provincial Council
• Building condition report, Ukrainian Church, Smoky Lake, Alberta. Prepared for the Facilities Management Division.