Ukrainian Culinary Heritage

A couple of days ago, I watched the “Passing the Plate: Documenting Family Recipes for Future Generations” presentation with Ashley Covelli and Lisa Lisson. Ashley is a popular American food blogger and Lisa is a well-known genealogist. They covered how to document recipes with your family members, the role recipes play in understanding your family heritage and tips for gathering the stories behind family recipes.
https://bigflavors.gumroad.com/l/passing-the-plate-documenting-recipes

Ashley Covelli of “Big Flavors from a Tiny Kitchen”
https://bigflavorstinykitchen.com/

Lisa Lisson of “Are You My Cousin?” and “The Food Memory Project”
https://lisalisson.com/ and https://foodmemoryproject.com/

Exploring Your Culinary Heritage – Lisa Lisson
https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/exploring-your-culinary-heritage

Culinary Heritage: Finding Home at the Dinner Table – Lisa Lisson
https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/culinary-heritage-finding-home-at-the-dinner-table

“Culinary heritage is quite simply the traditional foods your ancestors prepared and ate.” 

~ Lisa Lisson ~

My first career was as a Chef for 11 years and even though I went to work for the provincial government for 33 years, I have retained my interest in food and cooking. This Zoom session got me back thinking about my own family, what culinary traditions we continue with and what memories I have of my childhood including the stories I was told about my ancestors.

Geto, H. Seniuk, Barbara and Baba
Note that Baba has a new dress on

I am lucky that I have my Mom, Sylvia to call to clarify information and also the Kalynchuk Family History book to refer to. I published this book 30 years ago and am so glad that I did it then when so many of my relatives were alive to capture their stories, pictures, and documents.

I remember my Mom packing up cooked Ukrainian food and us going to Vermilion to spend Christmas with our cousins and, Aunts and Uncles at Geto’s (Harry Kalynchuk) house. Geto always had a container of white, peppermint candies in the top drawer of a cabinet in his living room. I now like to put candies in the pockets of my nieces and nephews. I also prefer the small, sour cabbage rolls (holubtsi), Easter bread (paska), head cheese (studenetz), perogies/pyrohy (varenyky), sauerkraut (kapusta), borsch, sauerkraut soup with pork (kapusniak), beet leaf buns (beetniks), stewed dried fruit (compote), mushrooms in sauce, prune buns (pampushky) or made with poppy seeds, cooked wheat (kutya) and Christmas bread loaves (kolach) that my Mom learned to make from my Baba (Alexandra/ Grace nee Pawliuk). There were no cookbooks then! My Mom learned to make the cheese rolls (nalysnyky) from the volunteer ladies at the King George Hall on the highway, for their perogy suppers.

Larry, me, Della, Dad, Les with
Mom taking the picture

When I moved to the city of Edmonton, I kept up the tradition of stopping at the Ukrainian Bookstore (no longer exists) and getting a calendar and candle for my Dad, Steve at Christmas time. The calendar had Ukrainian religious information on it and the candle had a red Ukrainian embroidery strip wrapped around it. My brother Les has kept up many of our family’s Ukrainian Christmas traditions. Today, I get my calendars and candles at the Orbit Ukrainian store.

With my four trips to Ukraine over 21 years, I have started to incorporate some current Ukrainian ways of cooking. I also have a hobby of collecting Ukrainian cookbooks. For example, I like the Polish dill pickles with red peppers in them. My Mom makes a Summer Borsht which is based on having a garden at the farm and I make Jewish Winter Borsht at home. I also like cherry nalyvka, a homemade wine plus rosolynk, a dill pickle soup and Lviv syrnyk, a cheesecake made with cottage cheese from my travels to Ukraine.

When I go to restaurants like the Taste of Ukraine restaurant in St. Albert or the Eats and Treats by Hotsuls in Lloydminster, I like ordering their borsht which tends to have a piece of pork with a bone in it. Another great place is the Baba’s Attic & Coffee House in Mundare and the Uncle Ed’s Ukrainian Restaurant in Edmonton. When I go to a restaurant, if it either reminds me of my childhood or my trips to Ukraine, I am extra happy. I also like learning about new methods of cooking Ukrainian food and especially the influences from other countries, e.g., Jewish, Polish, German, Romanian.

Taste of Ukraine – St. Albert
https://tasteofukraine.com/

Eats and Treats by Hotsuls - Lloydminster
https://www.facebook.com/EatsandTreatsbyHotsuls/

Baba’s Attic & Coffee House - Mundare
https://www.facebook.com/people/Babas-Bistro/100077893419345/

Uncle Ed’s Ukrainian Restaurant - Edmonton
https://www.stawnichys.com/

Uncle Ed’s restaurant has a deli on the northside, and they have some Polish imported food products because Poland ruled Western Ukraine in the 1900’s. This relates more to the “first wave” of immigrants. For more recent immigrants, they tend to go to the Ukrainian Orbit Store downtown which mainly has a large selection from Ukraine. The European Market and Produce in the westend has Ukrainian and Russian food items etc. When I go to Orbit or the European Market, it smells like Ukraine when I walk inside (smoked fish, cheese, fresh produce, chocolates…). This reminds me of being in the grocery stores in Ukraine. Uncle Ed’s reminds me of the perogy suppers at the King George’s Hall near Elk Point or now in Edmonton at the St. Basil’s Cultural Centre or by attending family weddings or funerals.

Ukrainian Orbit Store
10219 – 97 Street, Edmonton

European Market and Produce
http://www.europeanmarketandproduce.com/

Della, Les, Dad, Mom with me taking the picture
(the candle in the center of the bread is from me)

Years ago, our ancestors ate more basic meals, based only on what they had on their farms or nearby. My grandmother, Grace used to make a bread pudding or cornmeal casserole (nachynka) for my Dad in the morning, before he walked to work at the Lindbergh Salt Plant. My Mom said that with my Dad’s income, Baba was able to add raisins to the bread pudding. My Aunts Nancy and Barbara also went to work and contributed to what Baba was able to cook and what nicer things she got in her home. I remember a well near the house and my Mom said that they put milk, cream and butter down the well by a rope as they did not have a fridge. I also remember lots of canning. Even today, morel mushrooms and wild strawberries are my favourite.

From my last trip to Ukraine in 2019, I had the cornmeal casserole in my Baba's family village (of Malyatyntsi in the Kitsman district) but they now call it "Banush" because they include topping it with fried salo or pork rinds and sheep milk cheese (brynza) which is the Hutsul way of making it.  

We are lucky with farmers markets and local food production that we can get local, homemade garlic dill pickles, prune buns (pampushky), jams and jellies, beet leaf rolls with creamy dill sauce, garlic sausage (kobasa), sauerkraut, etc. With the increase of Ukrainian newcomers to Edmonton, I notice more Ukrainian food products in the popular grocery stores. I even heard of a grocery store in the westend selling Kyiv cake via Facebook. Some Ukrainian newcomers are selling Ukrainian food items on the Facebook Marketplace and at Facebook pages (especially for Український - for Ukrainians who speak Ukrainian). Thank goodness for Google and Facebook translate! And I smile when I see Paska (sweet egg bread) in Safeway before Easter.

Malina Ukrainian Bakery
https://malinabakery.ca/

Yo Baba Ukrainian Foods
https://www.yobabafoods.com/

Ukraine’s Kitchen
https://www.ukraineskitchen.ca/

Widynowski’s Sausage House
https://www.sausagehouse.ca/

In Ukraine they drink room temperature, mineral water, and we like “plain”, ice cold water. This is such a problem for me that I used to carry a label from a bottle so that when I went in a store in Ukraine, I got the correct bottle of water. My Dad liked buttermilk and in Ukraine they drink kefir. In Ukraine they make more of the traditional blueberry or cherry perogies (varenyky) or cottage cheese with potatoes, sauerkraut, or mushrooms. Today in Edmonton, we have new favors in the grocery stores (pizza, cheddar cheese) plus the tradition ones. My great grandparents (Elko and Anastasia Kalynchuk) had a Russian stove and when I was in Ukraine, I stayed at the house that my great grandmother (Raifta Pawliuk, nee Tkachuk) lived in, and it had a Russian stove.

Ukrainian Folk Art, unknown source
Note the Russian stove behind the lady standing alone

I find that mixed families and those who choose to become more “Canadian” (even changing their surnames), it is harder for people interested in genealogy to connect to their culinary heritage. But there is hope! By taking your DNA test, you can find out what your ethnicity estimate are from. I had a cousin on Ancestry who thought that our common family branch was from Bosnia. The Stetsko’s are from the district of Borschiv in Western Ukraine. By doing genealogy and family research, you will find out more about your ethnicity and culinary heritage.

 

• What recipes have your family pass down?
• What culinary traditions does your family, or you continue to do?
• What memories do you have of eating with your families and communities?

Anastasia Kalynchuk in her garden

The memories of three grandchildren of Baba, Anastasia (Nancy) Kalynchuk

Lena (Karpiuk) Koehler: “I use to love going berry picking with Grandma because she made the best lunches… She used to bake bread that was the best you ever tasted. She also made raisin bread. Somehow, she always managed to have candy in the house. When we used to bring her cream, she would reward us with her sweets.”

Nancy (Kalynchuk) Fossen: “I remember that I always enjoyed it when my folks and us kids would spend Ukraine Christmas Eve (January 6th) at Grandma’s. Her preparations kept up with the Ukrainian customs and traditions. She would spread a handful of fine hay on top of the table and cover it with a table cloth. The centre piece was three braided round loaves of bread (Kolachi), putting one on top of each other with a candle inserted in the top loaf. There was a candle on each side of the loaves also. There was also a few handfuls of hay laid under the table in memory of Christ child in the manger. She prepared various dishes of food for Christmas Eve but with no meat. Cooked wheat, sweetened and some poppyseeds mixed in it (Kutya), was a must dish. This was considered as Holy Supper (Svyata Vichera).”

Pete (Petro) Kalynchuk: “Grandma also had a large garden with lots of potatoes. I remember around 60 bags of 100 (or 10?) lbs. each. I took care of the garden for her. I remember taking lard sandwiches to school.”

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"Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go."
~ Anthony Bourdain ~

“Cultural foods will help children and non-genealogy family members connect to the previous generations. The food at celebrations and family dinners starts family history conversations.”
~ Lisa Lisson ~

Reference:

Traditional Ukrainian Cookery, Stechishin, Savella 1959, Trident Press, Winnipeg

Culinary Treasures, St. Basil’s Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League, 1982 (7th reprint), Ronalds Western Printing, Edmonton

The Art of Cooking… Ukrainian Style: A Book of Recipes, Ukrainian Women’s Association of Canada, 1971 (sixth reprint), U.W.A.C. – Vancouver Branch

Ukrainian Cuisine, Technika Publishers, 1975, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR (in English)

Daughters of the Ukraine (article)

A ladies club for the King George area was organized in May 1940.

Reflections: A History of Elk Point and District: 1977 Supplement, page 43.

Gastronomic Heritage – Government of Canada
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/culture/history-heritage/gastronomic-heritage.html

Culinary Historians of Canada
https://www.culinaryhistorians.ca/wordpress/

Ukrainian Cuisine - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_cuisine

Ukraine Traditional Food: A Culinary Journey Through Ukrainian Cuisine https://www.ukrainetravelnews.com/ukraine-traditional-food-a-culinary-journey-through-ukrainian-cuisine/

Ukrainian Institute
https://ui.org.ua/en/sectors-en/ukraine-food-history/

Tracing Your Family History Through Food
Ancestral Findings.com, article and video
https://ancestralfindings.com/tracing-your-family-history-through-food/

A set of recipe cards from Kyiv, Ukraine
(in Ukrainian, English & Russian)

Ukrainian Day at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village - Display Table

I had a “Trace Your Roots – Ukrainian Canadian Genealogy” display table at this event on Sunday, August 20, 2023, in rural Alberta.

The Alberta-Ukraine Genealogy Project (AUGP) was launched on August 13, 2006, and ended in 2018. This project operated out of the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village. Some of their work is on the Family History Portal – University of Alberta. And the AUGP documents have been sent to the Basilian Fathers Museum in Mundare, Alberta. I have a binder of the AUGP Family History Index which was a very popular look ups at my display table (it is online at their portal). Many people found the community history books that their ancestors have a family history story.

https://sites.ualberta.ca/~ukrville/Family_History_Portal/fhp.htm

https://basilianmuseum.ca/

Numerous people approached my table from the first wave of Ukrainian settlers (1892-1915) to Ukrainian newcomers. I even had a couple Ukrainian University of Alberta students talk to me about Ukraine’s history in the 1700-1800’s. One lady spoke about how doing genealogy is like detective work as she encouraged her son to get more involved. If you are also organized and have a good memory, this is a bonus. Lots of people also commented about having someone in their family who is or has done their family history. This is good to hear.

Some spoke about how their grandparents did not want to talk about the “old country” nor about the first years in Canada. Our sense was that it was very difficult. We also chatted about how time heals and that some details years ago that were an issue, today are part of life. I remember after publishing my Kalynchuk Family History book in 1993, one of my cousins commented about people only writing what was good and not the full story. And I remember my Aunties telling me to put down my pen and they will tell me some real good stories. When I got home or in my car, I took notes and am very grateful for this.



A couple of people told me that they have Igor Voronchak or Andriy Dorosh doing their genealogy research in Western Ukraine, and this made me very happy as I know the professional level of work that these two gentlemen do.

Igor Voronchak can be reached at voronchak@ukr.net

Andriy Dorosh can be reached at andriy@doroshheritagetours.com or through https://doroshheritagetours.com/

Anthony Hrabok and Henriette Chomiak are the Coordinators of the Folk Arts venue at the Vegreville Pysanka Festival and share the love of doing genealogy and family research with me. They came and assisted at our display table. Also, Anthony knew how to set up and take down the tent. I pulled up Henriette’s grandfather, Wasyl’s profile on Ancestry and she was excited to find out that 15 people have family trees on him, on Ancestry.ca. I really appreciate their assistance and friendship.

Henriette, Anthony, Nathan and Elaine

I also met up with a few people who I had volunteered with in the past on other projects, and one highlight was seeing Nathan Ip. He is the MLA for Edmonton South-West. We volunteered together on Gary Mar and Dave Hancock’s political campaigns. Nathan was born in Taiwan.

I brought all of the same information that I had at the Vegreville Pysanka Festival but adapted to having only one 6-foot table. A lesson learned is to go through my books in advance and pull out the most important ones. I had my car parked behind the table, but it would be easier if I had only one box to carry out instead of looking through four boxes and a few recycle bags!

We were near the Band Shell and it was wonderful to hear the music. As we were packing up the song, Kalyna was playing. This is the root of my surname and the original singer Sofia Rotaru, from the Chernitsi region.

I am grateful to the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Alberta Provincial Council for organizing and hosting this event. The program that they put together was impressive and the number of volunteers especially Ukrainian newcomers was wonderful to see. The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village is a worthwhile place to visit anytime during the summer months. On the weekends, they have special events.

They also have an exhibit gallery to provide a closer understanding of early Ukrainian settlement in east central Alberta.  https://ukrainianvillage.ca/

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress - Alberta Provinicial Council also has a link to the "Community Events in Alberta". At the bottom of the event page is "Subscribe to calendar" and I receive their e-newsletter via Outlook. https://www.uccab.ca/

Ukrainian Canadian History

In 1891 Iwan Pyllipiw and Wasyl Eleniak were recorded as the first Ukrainians in Canada, while Stefan Koroluk also filed his homestead in Alberta. There also had been some other individuals who had arrived earlier, but this year is considered the start of the Ukrainian settlement in Western Canada.

The first wave from 1892 to 1914, were mainly peasants and farmers fleeing the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There was limited land, primitive farming methods, malnutrition, widespread illiteracy, mounting indebtedness etc. Most Ukrainians emigrated to Canada came from Galicia and Bukovina in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This first wave of Ukrainian settlers halted in 1914 due the start of World War I. Approximately 170,000 Ukrainians from the Austro-Hungarian Empire arrived in Canada.

My Kalynchuk and Stetsko ancestors arrived in Halifax, Canada on April 30, 1897, and made their way to the Edna-Star Ukrainian Bloc by the fall of 1897. They came from Galicia. My Pawliuk and Tkachuk ancestors arrived in Alberta in 1898 from Bukovina and settled near Smoky Lake, with other Bukovinians.

In the book, “Dictionary of Ukrainian Canadian Biography of Pioneer Settlers of Alberta, 1891-1900, Vladimir J. Kaye, 1984” (and some other books), I was able to find entries about my two-family branches. I continue to seek out more books and look at the contents and index first, under Galicia, Bukovina, and my family surnames and villages. We are quite fortunate that there are many publications and videos/ films produced about the first wave of Ukrainians, coming to Alberta and Western Canada.

Edited by books:

The Ukrainian Canadians: A Study in Assimilation, Charles H. Young, Edited by Helen R.Y. Reid, 1931

Continuity and Change: The Cultural Life of Alberta’s First Ukrainians, Edited by Manoly R. Lupul, 1988
https://marketplace.ualberta.ca/products/continuity-and-change-the-cultural-life-of-albertas-first-ukrainians

A Heritage in Transition: Essays in the History of Ukrainians in Canada, Edited by Manoly R. Lupul, 1982

New Soil – Old Roots: The Ukrainian Experience in Canada, Edited by Jaroslav Rozumnyj, assisted by Oleh W. Gerus and Myhailo H. Marunchak, 1983

Canada’s Ukrainians: Negotiating an Identity, 1891 – 1991, Edited by Stella Hryniuk and Lubomyr Y. Luciuk, 1991

Ukraine and Ukrainians Throughout the World: A Demographic and Sociological Guide to the Homeland and Its Diaspora, Edited by Ann Lencyk Pawliczko, 1994

Re-imaging Ukrainian Canadians: History, Politics and Identify, Edited by Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk, 2011

The Extraordinary Lives of Ukrainian-Canadian Women: Oral Histories of the Twentieth Century, Edited by Iroida Wynnychyj, 2022

Authored books:

Men in Sheepskin Coats: A Study in Assimilation, Vera Lysenko, 1947

The Ukrainians in Canada, Ol’ha Woycenko, Second Revised Edition, 1968

Vilni Zemli (Free Lands): The Ukrainian Settlement of Alberta, J. G. MacGregor, 1969

Chronology of Ukrainian Canadian History, Andrew Gregorovich, 1973
https://archive.org/details/chronologyofukra0000andr

Greater Than Kings: Ukrainian Pioneer Settlement in Canada, Zonia Keywan and Martin Coles, 1977

No Streets of Gold: A Social History of Ukrainians in Alberta, Helen Potrebenko, 1977

Land of Pain, Land of Promise: First Person Accounts by Ukrainian Pioneers 1891-1914, translated by Harry Piniuta, 1978

Recollections About the Life of the First Ukrainian Settlers in Canada, William Czumer, 1981

Ukrainian Canadians: A History, Michael Marunchak, 1982

Salt and Braided Bread: Ukrainian Life in Canada, Jars Balan, 1984

Peasants in the Promised Land: Canada and the Ukrainians, 1891-1914, Jaroslav Petryshyn and Luba Dzubak, 1985

Creating a Landscape: A Geography of Ukrainians in Canada, Lubomyr K. Luciuk and Bohdan S. Kordan, 1989

The Ukrainian Bloc Settlement in East Central Alberta, 1890-1930: A History, Orest T. Martynowych, 1985, preprint 1990
https://archive.org/details/ukrainianblocset00mart

Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Period, 1891-1924, Orest T. Martynowych, 1991

Ukrainians in North America: An Illustrated History by Orest Subtelny, 1991

All of Baba’s Children, Myrna Kostash, Fourth Edition, 1992

The Land They Left Behind: Canada's Ukrainians in the Homeland, Stella Hryniuk and Jeffrey Picknicki, 1995

Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland, John C. Lehr, 2011

Community books:

Alberta in the 20th Century: A Journalistic History of the Province, Volume 1: The Great West Before 1900, edited by Ted Byfield, 1991

Alberta in the 20th Century: A Journalistic History of the Province, Volume 2: The Birth of the Province, 1900-1910, edited by Ted Byfield, 1992

Alberta in the 20th Century: Centennial Limited Edition, The Albertans: From Settlement to Super Province, 1905-2005, Author and Edited by Paul Stanway, 2005

Early Ukrainian Settlements in Canada, 1895-1900: Dr. Josef Oleskiw’s Role in the Settlement of the Canadian Northwest, Vladimir J. Kaye, 1964

Dictionary of Ukrainian Canadian Biography of Pioneer Settlers of Alberta, 1891-1900, Vladimir J. Kaye, 1984*
https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/14179/file.pdf

The Ukrainian Pioneers in Alberta, Canada, The Ukrainian Pioneers in Alberta, Canada, 1970 (Blue book)*

Ukrainians in Alberta, Ukrainian Pioneers Association of Alberta, 1975 (Red book)*

Ukrainians in Alberta, Ukrainian Pioneers Association of Alberta, 1981, (Green book)*

(*Regarding the above mentioned four books, the Ukrainian Pioneers Association of Alberta has scanned and put these books online at their website, 

https://ukrainianpioneers.wordpress.com/resources/publications/ )

Videos

130th anniversary of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada Story
Historian Radomir Bilash tells the Iwan Pylypow & Vasyl Ilyniak (Eleniak) story of their immigration from Nebyliv, Ukraine to the current day Lamont County in Alberta, Canada in 1891.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqGP5rrnHh0

Studying Ukrainian Communities in Canada: Where to Start?, by Jars Balan
This is the second in a series of presentations for the 2021 Summer Institute at the Kule Folklore Centre for the project: Trapped in the Archives of Repression. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdlDQZ2aDFc

Ukrainian Archival Collections in Canada: Preserving the Past, Building the Future
May 11 – 13, 2018. Organized by the Kule Folklore Centre (KuFC), the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), and the Friends of the Kule Folklore Centre, the three-day event brought together some 70 archivists, academics, and community members interested in the state of Ukrainian archives in Canada and the challenges they face in the future. Keynote is Myron Momryk and 7 panel sessions.
http://ukrainian-archives.artsrn.ualberta.ca/, conference schedule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W64Q_Gg8hE&list=PLzaAluGOZByFxw0MPc15Ak5Fdc_KOSTtO

Steamship Agents During the First Wave of Immigration: Migrants and Historians Tell Different Stories, by Dr. Andriy Nahachewsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdxP65g_SI

Oldest film showing Ukrainians in Canada, 1921
This 23-minute film titled "The Ukrainians" is part of a series of early silent films in the Nation Building in Saskatchewan series. This video was posted on YouTube by Ed Monton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b9m9Tf7vSc

Ukrainian Winter Holidays, 1942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqK4wM9fyo

New Home In The West - Ukrainian pioneers/immigrants in Canada, 1943
Was posted on YouTube by Don Goodes. This early film is about the Ukrainian pioneers in central Canada. In 1943 when the film was released, Canada was in the throws of World War II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnqLR-y6bU

Ukrainians in Canada, 1946, Edmonton Festival
Has been posted on YouTube by Ed Monton. This is a rare film that highlights a festival of dance that took place in Edmonton in the summer of 1946. The first pioneer Wasyl Elyniak can be seen at 8:07.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxP0zBbiYoI

Kurelek/Курилик, 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86hAzgPFUHw

Reflections of the Past, 1974, Ukrainian Pioneers, Manitoba, Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSpkE9VamX0

Teach Me to Dance, 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymh03NxLNAk

Wood Mountain Poems, 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxa1ediYuqM

Canada Vignettes: Easter Eggs (pysanky) / Великодні писанки, 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_rSMNRx74

Laughter in My Soul, 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxJT01C4Xmk

Ukrainian Canadians - A Time to Remember, 1988
Ed Monton posted this video on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcGhp7W98d8

Memories of a Ukrainian boy growing up in Alberta in the 1920's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt55eu9C8Ak

A Place Called Shandro, Directed and produced by James E Motluk
An impressionistic documentary that chronicles the settlement of Alberta, Canada by Ukrainian immigrants at the turn of the 20th century. Narrated by the voices of actual pioneers and their descendants, their stories of struggle and celebration come to life through spectacular cinematography that captures the majesty and beauty of the prairie landscape they helped to tame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_zcKXEzncs Trailer
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/aplacecalledshandro to rent this film

Courtesy of CIUS Press, 1988,
Book Image, Public Domain

Courtesy of the University of Alberta,
1991, Book Image, Public Domain