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              Band Music
              CA BMUFA UF1994.023.c235 · Item
              Part of Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta collection

              This item contains two interviews with unknown females. The first interviewee was born in Russia in 1909. She talks about the place where she lived and family members that were starving and being deported to Siberia. She then talks about coming to Canada and what she and her husband did in Canada. She talks about the church and being Lutheran and Evangelic.

              The second interviewee's parents came from Poland and she was raised in a Lutheran family. Her family left to Ukraine and then came to Canada in 1927 and moved to Alberta in 1928.

              The tape also contains music recordings

              Bezmutko family
              CA BMUFA 0017-3 · Series
              Part of Gloria Rutherford family collection

              Mike Bezmutko was born September 15, 1866 in Poland. His wife Mary Zuhajewych was born April 16, 1868 in Poland. They had seven children. According to Homestead Patent dated 1907, they obtained entry for their homestead in 1904, built their house and started their residence in 1903, their address at that time was New Ottawa, Saskatchewan. They got their naturalization in 1906 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

              CA BMUFA UF1994.023.c218 · Item · June 5, 1982
              Part of Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta collection

              This item contains two recordings of interviews conducted in the summer of 1982 in Edmonton, AB. The first interview was conducted in English with Eugene Weber. Mr. Weber was born in Scott, SK in 1932 and the interview discusses the history of his family before and after his birth, and the importance of German community.

              The second interview was conducted with Mr. and Mrs. Sommer in Polish, German and English. In the interview, they discuss Mr. Sommer's history of being born in Rivne (Volyn), where his mother also born. His grandfather worked as a basket maker, his father was a farmer in Volyn (Poland). The name of the village was [Maschk]. The father of Mrs. Sommer died after the WW1 and she grew up in another family. In the year 1914, when the WW1 started, Russians took all Germans from Volyn to Siberia. In the year 1916, at the age of 19 he was taken from Siberia to the Russian army. He had to fight at the Russo-Turkish war. In the year 1918, he came from the war to Kostanay after serving in the Russian army. In 1921 he came back to Volyn. His wife and him grew up in the same village and got married in 1923, first lived at her uncle´s place. His older brother lived in Canada and helped his brothers move there too. They came to Canada in June 1929. They came from Maschk to Rivne by train, came to Halifax from Danzig by ship. After they took the train to Edmonton and New Sarepta. After the arrival they stayed at the immigration camp. At the time of immigration they already had three children (born in 1924, 1926 and in 1928). Later they had one more baby (daughter) in Canada.

              Weber, Eugene
              Opryshko family collection
              CA BMUFA 0047 · Collection · 1945-1975

              Collection consists of correspondence between Opryshko family in Canada and in Poland and Ukraine.

              Opryshko family
              Transition and tradition
              CA BMUFA 0134-4 · File · 1983
              Part of Mark Bandera ethnographic collection

              A comparison of traditional Ukrainian folksongs from contemporary Poland with those in North America. An analysis of Lemko features in music and a general discussion of song types, texts and translations.

              Bandera, Mark Jaroslav