Part 1: Born in Winnipeg in 1930; grew up in a Precher (??) area, spoke only Ukrainian at home; as a young boy became a member of the Junior Section of the Ukrainian Labor Temple; went to a Ukrainian school; the family subscribed Ukrainian newspapers; his father Matviy Shatulsky first went to England, then to the USA and then came to Canada in 1911, he was from the Tsarist Russia, was Orthodox; his mother came to Canada in 1922; his father died when Myron was quite young; his father was arrested in 1940 and kept in Escas (??); Semchyshyn was his school friend; confiscation of the Communist Hall; a division between Bolsheviks and Nationalists; CUC.
Part 2: The wife introduces herself. In 1946 his father went to visit Ukraine, in 1947 he went across western Canada reporting on what he saw. He himself was always politically conscious. He was watching his father who affected him greatly. His talk about boys he went to school with. Banderivtsi. DPs. SS Galicia. They taught Ukrainian school that included dancing, Ukrainian language. Cultural level of Ukrainian life in Canada. They taught young people full time dancing, choir, orchestra. It was a big interest in Ukrainian dance in 1953.
Part 3: Life and study in Soviet Ukraine: Oleksander Klymiuk (??); Viriovka; Ryl’s’koho Institute; Fakul’tet narodnykh instrumentiv; Patorzhyns;kyi; studying with Krachko and Zakarpats’kyi khor; Shatulsky came back from Soviet Ukraine in 1953; Svystun and “Svystunivs’ka tserkva”; John Kolasky; applying his received knowledge in Canada; the Famine issue.
Part 4: The Famine issue; defending the Soviet system; Ukrainian-Canadian culture; cultural exchanges.
Exhibition of the recently donated collections of Orest and Olesia Talpash, and Chrysant and Leslie Dmytruk.
The collection consist of personal documents (birth certificates from Audtro-Hungarian Empire, marriage certificate, military ticket from inter-war Poland), immigration documents (passports with visas, ship cards) and other personal documents of Andrew and Polly Sharak. Both Polish passports have their photographs.
Sharak family
New choreography. Louder than words.
The series consists of documents related to Shandro Museum activities including annual financial reports, list of executive, bylaws, renaming documents, certificate of incorporation, agreement with other organizations (Alberta Museum Association), and dissolution documents.
This file consists of seven items collected in Shandro, Alberta.
This is the sewing machine, which Wasyl bought and sent to his home village. Anna is sitting third from the left. She sewed her wedding dress on this machine and brought it with her to Canada where she married Wasyl.
