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In the shadow of the Rockies : diary of the Castle Mountain internment camps, 1915-1917

It is still a little-known fact that during the First World War and in the immediate postwar period (1914–1920), Canadian Internment Operations imprisoned more than 8,000 individuals. The majority of those interned were civilian non-combatants,…

The word and wax : a medical folk ritual among Ukrainians in Alberta

The Word and Wax explores the fascinating medical folk ritual of wax pouring used by some members of the Alberta Ukrainian community as a means of driving away fear and curing minor ailments. The ceremony is of the magico-religious and…

Tags: Alberta Folklore, Anxiety Treatment, Beeswax Rituals, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Canadian Series in Ukrainian Ethnology, Christian Imagery, Christmas Customs, Community Healers, Cultural Adaptation, Cultural Health Practices, Cultural Heritage, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Ethnographic Research, Fear Sickness, Folk Customs, Folk Medicine Studies, Folk Medicines, Folk Remedies, Health And Culture, Immigrant Adaptation, Magico-religious Rituals, Medical Anthropology, Medical Folk Rituals, Oral Incantations, Pre-Christian Traditions, Rena Jeanne Hanchuk, Ritual Healing, Strakh Vylyvaty, Stress Reduction, Transposed Cultural Traditions, Ukrainian Canadian Literature, Ukrainian Diaspora, Ukrainian Ethnography, Ukrainian Folk Medicine, Ukrainian Folklore, Ukrainian Healers, Ukrainian Healing Traditions, Ukrainian Heritage, Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada, Ukrainian Material Culture, Ukrainian Settlers, Ukrainian Storytelling, Ukrainians in Alberta, Village Traditions, Vylyvaty Visk, Wax Ceremony, Wax Healers, Wax Pouring Ritual, Wax Pouring Tradition, Wedding Traditions

The Politics of Multiculturalism: a Ukrainian-Canadian Memoir

The book Politics of Multiculturalism is the memoir of an academic whose expertise in the education of Canadian minorities led him to take on a major political role in the Canadian multicultural movement. Born in the Ukrainian bloc settlement of…

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Bilingual Programs, Alberta Cultural Heritage Council, Canadian Constitution Multiculturalism Section, Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism, Canadian History, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Canadian Minorities Education, Canadian Multiculturalism, Canadian Politics, Cultural Diversity in Canada, Cultural Heritage Promotion, Democratic Society Minority Rights, Education, Educational Reform, Ethnic Cultural Enrichment, Liberal Secular Humanism, Manitoba Bilingual Education, Manoly R. Lupul, Memoir, Minority Advocacy, Minority Linguistic Rights, Multicultural Policy Development, Multiculturalism, Policy Development in Education, Russification in Ukraine, Saskatchewan Bilingual Education, Ukrainian Bloc Settlement Alberta, Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada, Ukrainian-Canadian, Ukrainian-Canadian History, Ukrainian-Canadian Memoir

Tkanyna : an exhibit of Ukrainian weaving = Tkanyna: vystavka ukraı̈nsʹkoho tkat͡stva

This is beautiful title contains a parallel bilingual English-Ukrainian text and includes colour photographs of Ukrainian textiles and weaving artifacts displayed at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village near Edmonton in 1988.

Co-published with…

Tags: Alberta Ukrainian Commemorative Society, Art, Barbara Wilberg, Bilingual English-Ukrainian Text, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Folklore, Friends of Ukrainian Village Society, Radomir Bilash, Radomir Borislaw, Tkanyna, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Ukrainian Textiles, Ukrainian Weaving, Ukrainian Weaving Artifacts, Ukrainians in Alberta