Kuryliw family collection
Kuryliw family
Ukrainian Canadians*
philanthropy
Franko, Ivan
The collection consists of personal documents of Anna and Wasyl Kuryliw, family photographs, correspondence between Wasyl and Anna, and other materials.
The film Chapters & Verses: Action Bill's Walk through Life - a documentary about Wasyl Kuryliw directed by his daughter Oksana Kuryliw and produced by Oksana Kuryliw and John Leeson is also part of this collection. Other materials include: Sonia Holiad's introduction to the premier screening of the film on September 12, 2017 at the Spadina Theatre at Alliance Française in Toronto; photographs of the Edmonton screening of the film, on October 27, 2017, and a poster of the event; and poems by Ivan Franko handwritten by Wasyl Kuryliw, which he used to take with him to work around 1965-1974 in Sudbury.
Anna Kuryliw's wedding dress with the veil is also part of this collection, as well as the wedding photograph of Wasyl and Anna. There is also a photo print of 4 women (Anna among them - 3rd from the left) with a sewing machine, which was bought by Vasyl and sent to the Old Country with the proposal to Anna to marry her. Her wedding gown was sewn with it.
1930s-2017
1 DVD, duration: 01:07 hr
2 mp4 files (7.29 GB, 428.9 MB)
textual records
photographs
1 poster
1 artefact
https://archives.ukrfolk.ca/kuryliw-family-collection
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https://archives.ukrfolk.ca/bohdan-medwidsky-ukrainian-folklore-archives
Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives
Sudbury, Ontario
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