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Part 1: Born on July 14, 1914 (??) in a village of Myrnovets’ (??), Ternopil’ region; Greek-Catholic; his father participated in vyzvol’ni zmahannia; returned from a POW camp in 1921, and in 1928 went to Canada; Lev went to Canada in 1930 (Warsaw - Gdynia - ???); found a job of a simster (??); Strilets’ka Hromada; protses Romana Bidy (??); reasons for Ukrainian emigration; creating UNO in Toronto, Kosar, Pavliuchenko, Guliai (??), Zelenyi, Vasylyshyn, Hryhorovych, Hlynka; Kupchenko (??); Mykyta Romaniuk (??); Romaniuk; Kornylo Magera (??); Karpats’ka Ukraina; Aviation school (??); Stephan Pavliuk, Ievhen Stavryk, Tarnovyi (??) came in 1934, organizing a Telegraph School (??).

Part 2: The Telegraph School (??); Pavliuk and Tarnovyi left; then Oleksa Shestovs’kyi (??), Zalishchuk (??), Ambroziy Shestovs’kyi (??), Mykhailo Kalyniuk (??) - created in 1937 an aviation school (??); Petro Antokhii (??) donated his own commercial airplane; when WWII started, Zalishchuk and Ladyka were the first instructors in the Canadian Air Forces; 14 pilots from that school joined the Air Forces; UNO vs Het’mantsi; Bosyi (??); Tracy Phillips; UNO vs BUC; Fr. Kushnir; creation of CUC; SUS; Tracy Phillips; Kushnir & Kosar; Stechyshyn; Savchuk; Vasyl Burianyk (??); Ruryk (??); DPs; Samostiinyky & DPs; MUN; Kosar; Pavliuchenko; Tracy Phillips; George Simpson; Kirkconnell (??); CUC creation was prompted by the government.

Part 3: Choosing the Head of CUC; 1st and 2nd Congresses of CUC; 1946 - CUC Congress in Toronto; Wowk was in Army in 1945; confiscation of the Communist properties; discussing during the Congress what to do with the DPs; Panchuk; Froliak; Wowk wrote Froliak’s speech for the 1st Congress; Kokhan and CUC; Kushnir; Vasylyshyn and Dopomohovyi Fond in Europe; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi (??)-Davydovych (??)-Kysylevs’kyi (??); Turans’kyi (??) created the Club Ukrains’kykh voiakiv in London, not Panchuk.

Part 4: Panchuk; Davydovych from UNO; Dr. K; Dmytro Andriievs’kyi from OUN; Novyi shliakh moving from Edmonton to Saskatoon; DPs & Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy, banderivtsi vs melnykivtsi; Zahariichuk (??); Kokhan (??); Ivanchuk; Mandryka (??); Vasylyshyn; Komitet vidrodzhennia UNO, Pohorets’kyi, Yuzyk; Kosar was negative towards it.

Part 1: Born on March 27, 1910 in Canada; his parents came in 1906-1907 from Sokal’ povit; they emigrated for economic reasons; Ukrainian Catholics; Hanushchak (??); WWI and WWII; Narodnyi Dim; parents subscribed to Kanadiiskyi farmar, Ukrains’ki visti; Stechyshyn and Institute; teacher Zherebko (??); he was teachung Ukrainian after classes; Savchuk; WWII, Ukrainian-Canadian Servicemen Club in London.

Part 2: Discrimination against Ukrainians; Mohyla Institute and church; he was at the Mohyla Institute in 1923-1926; St. Joseph School; he got his BA, went teaching; he joined BUC; UNO; Communists; Het’mantsi; UCSA; Horoshko, Savchuk; Panchuk; Ann Khraplyva; Tony Yaremovych (??); Gordon (??); Skoropads’kyi.

Part 3: DP camps; Ukrainian-Canadian Legion; Panchuk; impact of DPs; Dr. Leko (??).

Part 1: Nee - Burianyk; born on September 26, 1907 in Stanislaviv; came to Canada in 1913; family was Ukrainian-Catholic; her husband was one of the founders of the Sichovi Stril’tsi in Canada; reasons for creating the organization; Kosar; Gulai (??); Prof. Pavliuchenko; Kosar; Ukrainian Mission overseas, Yaremovych; Khraplyva; James Cool (??) - Director of the Mission in Ottawa; Panchuk; Dmytro Omilevskyi (??); Andriievs’kyi (??); Korostovets’ (??); Danylo Skoropads’kyi; SUS; Smilskyi (??), Klymash (??); Berezovs;kyi (??); DP camps, Mrs. French from Canada (writer for a magazine) visiting camps; Dr. Stephan Biliak (??); Davydenko; Andriievs’kyi (??) - a higher ranking mel’nykivets’; people from UPA in DP camps; a fake DP story; Lysenko camp; Mr. and Mrs. Yanda (??) from Edmonton getting to camps; Kosar, Mr. Mandryka.

Part 2: Content of letters written by Anne Wasylyshyn; Panchuk; Tarnovets’kyi (??) bringing many intellectuals from camps to Canada; Mr. Kokhan took over after Mrs. mandryka; disappointment in DPs; the Wasylyshyns returned to Canada in 1950; dirty rumors about the Wasylyshyns; Donna Baxtra (??); Final Report; Mrs. Khraplyva.

Part 1: Born on June 7, 1908 in Bukovyna, village of Orkhykhliby (??), povit of Kytsman’; family came to Canada in 1928; Greek-Orthodox; went to work where most Ukrainians would work - roads; Canada was requesting 800 Bukovynians for harvesting; his trip cost him 250 Rumanian lais; the route: Chernivtsi - Hamburg - Halifax; hard life in Bukovyna; Polish pan Wanda (??); Jews and Ukrainians; Artamon finished 3 classes in Ukraine, worked for CPR for 40 years; during Depression had work; in Regina - Prosvita, UNO, Samostiinyky; Artamon joined the Strilets’ka hromada; Ukrainian Communists; Prof. Lapchuk (??); Ivanyts’kyi - Head of the Strilets’ka hromada; Seiko (??); Seniuk (??); Fr. Yurii Ferentsii (??); he moved to Regina in 1928; he left the Strilets’ka hromada in a protest; Fr. Podol’s’kyi (??); Stefan Kutsan (??); Organiichuk (??); Het’mantsi, Fedorovych; Kapustians’kyi (??)

Part 2: Prosvita; UNO & Het’mantsi, Fedorovych and his son; Ukrainian Coop. Store created in 1947; Mrs. Lapchuk; WWII, Artamon was a foreman during the war; CUC creation; Manoliy (??); Orthodox Church in Canada; discrimination against Ukrainians on CPR; his wife is Mary Poplitai (??) from Ukraine, village of Kytsman’; he married in 1932.

Part 1: Nee - Denishevska (??); born in Alberta, grew up in Edmonton; her mother came from Ukraine when she was 6-7, in 1900, her family settled in Vegreville; her father came in the 1900s as a diachyk, settled in the Mundare area, he built the first chapel over there; Mary’s father left the monastery and married her mother; they started the Orthodox Church in Canada; Mary met her husband in Edmonton, he was born in Mykolaiv; they both danced in the Avramenko Group; in 1935 they moved to Saskatoon and opened up a book store; she taught a church choir, Petro Mohyla Institute choir, youth choir, she was elected to the Provincial Executive as a representative of the Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady in 1930; in 1934, was elected as Vice-President of the National Executive of the Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady; Central Executive moved from Edmonton to Saskatoon and has originated Soiuz Ukrainok in Saskatoon; during WWII she was a Head of the Tsentralia Soiuzu ukrainok Kanady; in 1941, National Council of Women in Canada had a convention in Winnipeg, she spoke about Ukrainian Women role; Mrs. Ruryk, Mrs. Madiuk (??); putting a collection at the Mohyla Institute; in 1941, they opened a museum to the public; Melania Burianyk (??), Sonia Stratiichuk (??); Sonia Synyshyn (??); Mary Modiuk (??); Hanka Romanchych (??); Folk Arts Council; Soiuz ukraintsiv samostiinykiv; she was born in 1912 near Vegreville.

Part 2: Teaching at schools; 1930 - she began teaching; Russian Orthodox Church; during Depression teaching choir in Redway; she was a member of Soiuz Ukrainok Kanady; Sichovi Stril’tsi; Soiuz ukraintsiv samostiinykiv; Fr. Savchuk, Stechyshyn; UNO in Edmonton, Dorosh, Hryhorovych, Hlynka; different waves of immigration - comparison; CUC creation - Simpson, Corconnel (??), Tracy Phillips; SUS; Liha vyzvolennia Ukrainy; Soiuz ukrainok Kanady; Prof. Fotiy (??); Ukrainian Communists; Ukrainian conscription debates; Mr. Hnatyshyn, helping the War efforts, packing parcels.

Part 3: Helping DPs in camps; Panchuk; relations with DPs in Canada; Mrs. Holovata; Orthodox church priests; women’s movement; local council of women; DP women; International conference of Museums in Leningrad and Moscow; going to museums of Kyiv and Lviv; nee - Yanishevs’ka (??), her husband - Pavlo Tkachuk (born in 1903, Orthodox), he left Ukraine in 1923 via Spain and Cuba but he got to Canada only in 1926; worked in Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Avramenko.

Part 1: Born on April 28, 1907 in Ivankove, Borshchiv povit; his wife is Anna Kravets’; family moved to Ternopil’ when Wasyl was about 2 y.o.; his mother died early; his elder sister was taking care of him; finished gymnasium and went to the University; in 1926, his brother went to Canada; he went to Winnipeg in 1930 (Gdansk - Montreal, ship “Kostiushko”); attended a school to learn English; was a member of UNO, Strilets’ka hromada; his brother and sister-in-law were members of the Strilets’ka hromada; in 1931 Sytnyk went to teach in a Ukrainian school in Narodnyi Dim in Oborn (??); then he went to Winnipeg; then went to Toronto in 1931 Strilets’ka hromada in Toronto; worked for 2 years on a sweater-making factory; in 1932, created a cooperative “Buduchnist’”; Mr. Vynnyk (??); Pastor Fesenko from the Control Commission; Bagan (??) from Gdansk, selling “Buduchnist’” to him in 1937; Sytnyk went to work on a pharmaceutical company.

Part 2: Fesenko helped him to get a job; Strilets’ka hromada in Toronto - raising money for Ridna shkola and such; Kul’chyts’kyi (??) - embezzlement accusation; organizing UNO in 1932 - Mel’nychuk; the Savchuk’s meetings; Yaroslav Pohorets’kyi - Secretary of the Strilets’ka hromada; Tsukornyk (??) - choir director and Ridna shkola; Koval’s’kyi - next choir director; women and OUK; Sych (??) - the first choir director; Sytnyk was the Head of the Ridna shkola till 1946; OUN, General Kapustians’kyi, Mrs. Savchuk; Petryshyn (??); UNO and SUS; Prof. Simpson and Kirkonel (??); Ukrainian Communists and their clashes with Strilets’ka hromada; Fr. Kamenets’kyi (??); contacts with Ukrainian Protestants, Pohorets’kyi, Savyts’kyi; raising money for Holodomor 1933; Het’mantsi; Bosyi (??); Shvartspat (??) in Toronton; discrimination against Ukrainians; helping Zakarpats’ka Ukraina, OUK; assassination of Konovalets’; Kamenets’kyi (??) the President of CUC; WWII.

Part 3: Buying the Communists’ Hall; Ukrainian Credit Union; Vasylenko, Hirniak, Sytnyk contacting the Government about buying the Hall; in 1943, Credit Union was organized; Topol’nyts’kyi; in 1940, Ontario got a right to have Credit Unions; Sytnyk was the first Head of the Credit Union; Vasyl’ Koval’chuk (??); Mr. Babiy (??); 1957 - Coordination Committee of the Credit Unions of Toronto; 1971 - Congress of CUC, elected a Council of the Credit Union of Canada; 1973 - World Council of the Credit Unions; Tarnavs’kyi (??), Rossokha (??); banderivtsi and credit union; Sytnyk was an executive member of the Credit Union for 35 years; CUC creation, Fr. Kamenets’kyi, Humeniuk (??); organizing the bandura players concert after WWII; helping DPs in camps and in Canada; banederivtsi vs. mel’nykivtsi.

Part 4: Banderivtsi in Canada; Knysh (??); Hutar (??); Kosar as the Head of UNO; Pavliuchenko; moving executive of UNO from Winnipeg to Toronto in 1954; Vasylyshyn; DPs’ input; 1970 - Komitet na uzdorovlennia UNO, Pohorets’kyi, Martynets’, Yuzyk; Novyi shliakh moving to Toronto, buying new computers for the new publishing house; publishing the newspaper in English; Filias of UNO Toronto-Zakhid.

Part 1: Born on March 1, 1891 in the village of Horodytsia Vasylians’ka (??), story of the village and its name; family came to Canada in 1912 (from Antwerp to Halifax to Hamilton); came to Espanola in 1916; Ukrainian Church; Petro Zena (??); Maslosoiuz; Serafyntsi, Vasyl’ Bachyns’kyi; Vasyl’ Homyniuk came and built a Hall; Palamaruk; Prosvita; Ukrainian school (William’s wife was a teacher), a choir; UNO; Humeniuk went to Windsor.

Part 2: Working at the paper factory; 1930-1944 - difficult times; subscribing to Novyi shliakh; Halushchak, Ostrovs’ki; Syroid is Catholic; DPs after WWII - Ivan Kozachenko; death of Syroid’s brother; newspaper Zhinocha dolia; Zhinocha volia; Ukrains’kyi Narodnyi Soiuz - Svoboda.

Part 1: Born on September 20, 1928 in Espanola; finished Secondary School; his brother Dmytro died accidentally; his mother was a teacher; local Hall was built in 1919; Ivan Khatych (??) the builder; Prosvita; his mother was Yustyna Onys’ka (??); local choir - teacher Mykhal’s’kyi (??); MUN in 1947-49 organized by Mykhailo Orekhivs’kyi (??); lost their Hall; Vasyl’ Stebnyk (??) was a Head of MUN; in 1946, their Paper Plant started working again; priests coming, using the Catholic Church in Espanola for Orthodox services; Fr. Opyima (??); Fr. Barabus (??); Fr. Karpins’kyi (??); Fr. Kalykh (??); Fr. Jurma (??); his father opened a store in 1928; other commerces in the city; Mr. Saiko (??) owning a food store; DPs; Syroid was a UNO member; is a member of Ukrainian Professional Club (?); Senator Yuzyk; Dr. Liupol (??); Syroid has 3 sons; his parents bringing an orphan relative from Halychyna and giving her education in Canada.

Part 2: Subscribing to the Ukrainian newspapers Oko, Postup, Svitlo
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Part 1: Petro Lazarovych (?); choir, soloists; speeches (toasts) during some event dedicated to Svarich; singing Ukrainian songs; Instytut Sv. Ivana in Vegreville (?); Instytut Hrushevs’koho; Svarich was a secretary of several schools.

Part 2: Speeches during an event dedicated to Svarich; Svarich helping DPs; Mnohaia lita song.

Part 3: 1895 - World Exposition in Lviv; Svarich was delegated there as a schoolboy; plays; getting lost in Lviv; Kostiushko and revolution; Ivan Mateiko painted the revolution;Rudolf; was elected a candidate from a radical party (?); serving in an army; 1896 - his Birthday celebration; songs singing; reading memoirs of Zvarich.

Part 4: Svarich about learning English; childhood, school, desire to study; gymnasium.

Part 5: Posmertna promova Zvarycha after his funeral in Narodnyi Dim
Sections of incomprehensible sound starting from 3.02 through 8.55, further through 12.30 and till the end.

Part 6: Singing songs (“Dyvlius’ ia na nebo” and others) with a piano accompaniment - those are the songs that Petro Zvarich recorded at the Conservatory of Prof. Berezenets’. These songs will be performed on February 14 in Victoria (?) by the Society SUMC (?) by Victoria Meletiuk (?) and Morris Lourier (??). Victoria was chosen as a Queen of SUMC in Winnipeg in 1963. She is a known violinist (?), piano-player and dancer. She is currently a student at the Arts Department, at St. John’s Institute. Morri Lourier (?) speaks only French and English but ings Ukrainian songs; he is a conductor of the French choir but takes part in Ukrainian concerts. Songs: “Dumka”, “I sad zatsviv”, “Vladyko neba i zemli”. Songs from the opera “The May Night”; a speech of Ivan Baran.

Part 7: A recording of a Concert; Svarich came to Canada in 1900 from Halychyna; Petro Ostyniuk (??) sings a song in English and Ukrainian; Svarich about his mother’s artistic talents; she wants him to be a priest; he was conscripted in the army and came back in 1899; they went to Canada; in 1903 Basilians settled next to them, and his mother helped them; in 1913 went to visit the youngest daughter they left in the Old Country; in 1915 sold their farm and moved to Edmonton; in 1919 his father died and his mother died in 1935; in 1918, when Ukrainian Orthodox Church was founded in Canada, Svarich and his relatives joined it but his mother preferred to remain Catholic so that she could be buried together with her husband; conflict between his mother and a Catholic priest; mother’s cancer; leaving money for churches; mother’s death and funeral.