Interview with Zwarun siblings (August 19, 2010) - Part I
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Part I of interview with Julia Troicuk, Steve Zwarun, and Celia Laverdure (siblings): their family, playing musical instruments, magicians at the community hall, their family’s life in Krasna, Ukraine, the family garden and land in Canada, music in Krasna, Immaculate Conception parish (Sydney), Father Zarsky, singing in church, Christmas carolling, living in an English neighbourhood (near Sydney Mines), cantor (Swaruchevsky), Ukrainian church in Dominion, miner’s tithe, families in Glace Bay and Dominion, music in the home, WWII, partisan resistance, the Ukrainian community in Glace Bay and Dominion, mother playing the tsymbaly, musicians (accordion, fiddle), Julia learning to play the mandolin, children’s orchestra, performing music and dance in Whitney Pier, the Labour Temple, Hungarian families in the Glace Bay area, Ukrainian halls in Dominion and Glace Bay, weddings and dances in the Ukrainian halls, communist organizations and individuals on Cape Breton Island, labour protests, Ukrainian community picnics. The interview was conducted by Marcia Ostashewski on August 19, 2010.