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Certificate to honoured member Mrs. Emilia Zarsky from the Ukrainian Catholic Womens League

This file contains artefacts from Orest and Emilia Zarsky's wedding on October 14, 1939. It includes clothing items from the bride and groom, the ring holder, and the cake topper

This series includes records and objects associated with the Zarsky family, particularly anniversaries and weddings. It consists of 3 apostolic blessings, an embroidered tray, and wedding artefacts, including the wedding dress, veil, gloves, vines, groom's tie, ring holder, and cake topper.

This series includes religious texts (publications) and icon cards.

This file consists of bibles and prayer books (detailed list available: catalogued in Mimsy).

The collection consists of personal documents of Orest and Emilia Zarsky, community event programs and other ephemera, publications on various Ukrainian and religious topics, badges and banners, an embroidered tray, and wedding clothes and items.

This file includes materials created for the Goodwill Club of the Ukrainian Catholic Women's Association (Edmonton). Materials consist primarily of membership lists and notes pertaining to the Social Committee's annual Bazaar and Tea event. There is also a 60th anniversary certificate, honouring founding member, Emilia Zarsky. Newspaper articles pertaining to the UCWL. Ephemera related to the 22nd eparchial convention in 1985.

The collection consists of photos and video footage from the event of the re-naming and additional gift by Drs. Peter and Doris Kule held in the Timms Centre, University of Alberta on 6 September 2006. Recognizing the contribution Ukrainian folklore plays in the development and preservation of Ukrainian culture and heritage, the Kules made another substantial gift to the University of Alberta in September 2006. To honor the Kules’ vision to see the centre expand and grow as a leading entity, the centre was renamed the Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore at a ceremony attended by several dignitaries including Dr. Indira Samarasekera, UofA President, and Dr. Daniel Woolf, Dean of Arts.

With this gift, the Kule Centre Endowment and the Kule Fellowship Endowment was established. Funds from the interest generated from these endowments is used for research projects, scholarships, publications and teaching. The Centre has been able to expand beyond Ukrainian Folklore to include Canadian Folklore studies, filling a much needed resource void in Western Canada.

On September 23, 2012, Myrna Kostash co-hosted an event in Edmonton called Zemlya/Nanaskomun (The land/We give thanks): A Ceremonial Exchange of Gifts, which meant to remind there there had once been a relationship between Ukrainians and Indigenous peoples.

The collections consists of photographs of the event, and an article about the event by Myrna Kostash in the albertaviews. As Myrna wrote on her website: "The Ceremony evolved from my desire as a descendent of Ukrainian settlers on Treaty Six land to acknowledge the relationship between my people and the First Nations people through the shared gift of the land. The emphasis was on ceremony and acknowledgement of relationship. The idea of the Exchange of Gifts was mine but I shared the event with my co-host Métis advocate, Sharon Pasula." (https://www.myrnakostash.com/zemlya-nanaskomun-gallery/ accessed January 9, 2021)

Andriy Nahachewsky (then Director of the Kule Folklore Centre) and Lynnien Pawluk (Kule Folklore Centre Administrator) participated in the event. Andriy shared a story of his grandfather. Lynnien shared gifts with a representative of the Indigenous community. See the article for detailed description of the event.

The collection consists of field materials collected by Andreiv Choma, a master student in the Ukrainian Folklore program at the University of Alberta, during 2013-2015. The material was collected among Ukrainian communities in Brazil. It includes audio interviews with the members of Ukrainian Brazilian community, photographs (both historical and modern), copies of the wedding registry of Ukrainians in Mallet in 1907-1915, baptismal registry, handwritten papers of the Ukrainian Catholic Centre in Mallet, of the society "Ukrains'ka hromada", and other records. It also includes Andreiv's manuscript of the part of his master thesis (mostly in English, parts in Portuguese).

The collection consists of an interview conducted with Chester Myroslav Kuc by Andriy Nahachewsky and Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn on August 20, 2003. The interview focused primarily on Chester Kuc's life story, his youth and his parents' encouragement for him to be active. It also deals with his teaching dance and the founding of Shumka and Cheremosh, and dance in general. Some information about his house and his various other arts and crafts interests: embroidery, pysanky, etc. is included as well.

The written scripts from the 1992 reel-to-reel audiotapes.
Missing the corresponding 1992 reel-to-reel tapes (only 1993-1996 tapes available).
The scripts contain interviews that Halyna Klid has conducted with Lubomyr Markevych, John Kolasky, Halyna Freeland, Andrij Hornjatkevyc, Victor Neborak, and Pavliuk. Klid also touches on subjects such as Alberta's trade mission to Ukraine, the Kiev House of Fashion in Canada, and, many more.