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This work consists of descriptions of Ukrainian wedding customs and wedding songs recorded from Mrs. Olga Savaryn (mother) and Mrs. Olena Prystajecky (grandmother). All songs are transcribed and translated. This collection was a result of a fieldwork project which was part of the assignment for the UKR 422 course at the University of Alberta in the fall term of 1979. This project includes: sheet music, song lyrics, and indexed interviews.

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 texts of songs, proverbs and customs collected from informants in Alberta for the course Ukrainian Folklore 499. Includes text of a religious letter from Father Kuban. Copies of work that describe love and kozak songs are also included.

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.

The collection consists of descriptions of Ukrainian wedding customs and wedding songs recorded from Mrs. Olga Savaryn (mother) and Mrs. Olena Prystajecky (grandmother). All songs are transcribed and translated. This collection was a result of a fieldwork project which was part of the assignment for the UKR 422 course at the University of Alberta in the fall term of 1979.

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.

A critical analysis of the dissertation : Klymasz, Robert Bogdan. Ukrainian folklore in Canada; an immigrant complex in transition (Indiana Iniversity, 1971).

A collection of texts of songs, proverbs and customs collected from informants in Alberta. Appendix contains text of a religious letter from Father Kuban.

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

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.

Documents of the Ukrainian National Hall in Edmonton

A description of how Tsymbaly are tuned by Ted Harasymchuk and a description of how kutia is made by Mrs. Koroluk.

A description of how an outdoor oven (p'iets) was made and how the weather influenced the use of it from the recollections of Ivan Ivasiuk.

A comparison of two works: "Speaking At/About/with the Dead: Funerary Rhetoric Among Ukrainians in Western Canada" by Robert Klymasz and "Tini zabutykh predkiv" by Mykhailo Kotsiubyns'kyi.

This fieldwork collection describes a humorous story about a young girl who confesses her sins as told by Vera Bosak.

A review of Robert Kylmasz's doctoral dissertation "Ukrainian folklore in Canada: An immigrant complex in transition".

A analysis of the life cycles in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by Mykhailo Kotsiubyns'kyi with direct quotes from the text and examples of rites of passage.

"My Trip from Ukraine to Canada" describes recollections from Natalia's journey from Lviv, Ukraine to Canada. The recollection includes her trip to Moscow by train and her plane ride to Canada.

"Baba's Church; My Church" describes the history of the establishment of two Ukrainian Catholic churches across the street from each other in Winnipeg.