Holy Ghost Parish Liturgy, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor); discussion on Marcia Ostashewski's research trip to Cape Breton.
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.
Part II of interview with Julia Troicuk, Steve Zwarun, and Celia Laverdure (siblings): assimilation, listening to records, storytelling, family life on the farm, Louisbourg picnics, dances in the Ukrainian hall in Dominion, embroidery, Easter traditions, Ukrainian language, ethnic discrimination, Julia’s work as a house cleaner, internment camps, CCF Party, unions, steel plant and coal mine work. The interview was conducted by Marcia Ostashewski on August 19, 2010.
Excerpt from IN-07012 with Zwarun siblings (August 19, 2010): daily life in Glace Bay, Jewish shops and shop owners in Glace Bay, family village in Ukraine (Krasna), interactions between Ukrainians and Jews on Cape Breton Island, WWII, rationing, Rukashyn furniture store, dance hall in the Rukashyn building, Hungarians in Glace Bay.
Excerpt from IN-07014 (0:00-10:34) with Father Greg Andrusyshyn (August 12, 2010): Ukrainian lots in the cemetery, Fr. Greg's father's shoemaker shop (at 702 Victoria Rd.), early years in Whitney Pier, his uncle's (John Sawchuk) confectionary shop (called Peter's Book Store, on Muggah Street and Victoria Road), Andrusyshyn genealogy, Kanadiis'kyi Farmer periodical, Fr. Greg's uncle and family in Montreal.
Excerpt from IN-07021 (32:02-47:22) with Steve Hasiuk (June 10, 2009): Ukrainian weddings and music in Cape Breton, 'dancing with the bride' custom, Steve playes 'Vziav by ya banduru' on his accordion, buying sheet music, Steve plays 'Homecoming waltz'.
Excerpt from IN-07020 (0:09-23:38) with Odarka and Father Greg Andrusyshyn (August 12, 2010): Odarka speaks about her family history - Semen Yaroslawsky, the painter; his migration to Sydney, Odarka's mother, WWII.
Part I of interview with Father Greg Andrusyshyn: Father Greg’s translation of publication about the jubilee of Ukrainian settlement in Canada, Holy Ghost belfry, the mission church in Bridgeport, cantor from Dominion (Swaruchevsky). The interview was conducted by Marcia Ostashewski in 2013.
