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In the summers of 1976-1981 inclusive, Patricia Pelech (Olsen) Carrow taught Ukrainian Folk Weaving at the Banff School of Fine Arts, now the Banff Centre, in their Visual Arts Department as part of its Weaving/Textile Arts program (later called Fibre Arts). She and her mother, Fiona Pelech, did extensive research in developing visual presentations for this course. They prepared over one thousand slides to present to the students as reference material. The sources for the slides are unknown.

Included in the slides are images pertaining to Ukrainian weaving, embroidery, costuming, baking, ceremonial occasions and photographs of the class participants in Banff.

Collection consists of Ukrainian folk songs and stories recorded by R. Klymasz during 1964-1965 at various locations in the Prairie Provinces and Ontario.

A collection of songs in Ukrainian text sung by Vasyl Diachuk who emigrated to Canada in 1952 from Bukovyna. Includes a biographical sketch of the informant, as well as texts and musical scores to the items collected.

Part I is a collection of songs with music scores as recalled by Kateryna Aponiuk categorized as harvest songs, spring songs, carols and new year's songs , wedding songs. Part II is a record of Christmas customs as recalled by Wasyl Hoshko.

This project includes a collection of wedding and funeral songs with musical scores recorded from various interviewees.

The collection consists of Ukrainian proverbs, jokes and comic tales collected in Alberta for Ukrainian Folklore courses taken by Roman at the University of Alberta.

A collection of jokes and comic tales collected from various informants in northern Alberta for the UKR-499 course.
Interviewees: Kost' Kuz'mak, Kost' Mykhailovych Telychko, Mykhailo Vasyliv, Orest Bohonos, pani M. Chornohuz, Ol'ha Lisova, Dmytro Petriw.

A collection of proverbs and beliefs relating to folk medicine collected from various informants: Maria Basarab, John Martyniuk and Paraskevia Kostiuk.

Maria Basarab came to Canada in 1951 from Kryve village in Kozova raion, Ternopil' region.

John Martyniuk was born in Canada, near Mundare, in 1912.

Paraskevia Kostiuk came to Canada from Ukraine in 1963 (she was 66 years old at the time of the interview).

The collection consists of field materials collected by Sogu Hong during his courses at the Ukrainian Folklore program, University of Alberta, as well as essays on a wide range of Ukrainian folklore topics: Ukrainian folk songs, ethnic jokes; immigrant tombstones; calendar customs and family rites, such as Christmas, childbirth, weddings; folk arts and crafts; foodways, and others.

"Study on Ukrainian immigrant tombstones" discusses the ritual of building tombstones for the dead with a focus on the tombstones of the first generation of Ukrainian immigrants.

"Ukrainian dumplings and Ukrainian Canadians' foodways" describes the folk cookery or foodways of Ukrainian-Canadians and in particular varenyky or pyrohy.

This paper discusses the Ukrainian customs and rites related to pregnancy and childbirth that are presently being done by Ukrainians and Ukrainian Canadians. Includes project proposal.

The collection consists of liturgical music, including Entrance and Recessional, Hymns in Honour of the Mother of God, Holy Spirit, Holy Eucharist, Various Saints, Tropars, Easter; and music scores and lyrics of Ukrainian folk songs (calendar cycle). It has been organized in three series: Folk music, Religious music, and Plast Song Books (self-published).

The collection consists of three photographs from the unveiling of Kule Theatre at Grant MacEwan University event.

This collection contains a book review and an essay on Ukrainian mixed marriages written by Walter Garbera for his Ukrainian courses.

Essay 1: "Tini Zabytuh Predkiv" is a book review on character development of Ivan Paliichuk and stylistic developments to describe the author's overall goal. Written for the course UKR 425..

Essay 2: "Ukrainian Mixed Marriages" focuses on marriage as a rite of passage. This diachronic study shows differences and similarities between a Ukrainian wedding which took place in Poland 30 years ago and several mixed marriages which took place in Canada. bib., quest. written for the course UKR 425. Includes: project proposal.

The collection consists of essays and supporting material collected by Frank Fingarsen while taking Ukrainian Folklore courses at the University of Alberta.

The collection consists of essays and questionnaires created by Natalia Booyar as part of her assignments for the Ukrainian Folklore courses at the University of Manitoba.