With Sony unveiling a new ebook reader across Canada last weekend, I stumbled upon an e-book repository called Our Roots that is a Canadian initiative to digitize books that cover Canada’s diverse nationalities and Ukraine is quite represented!
There were so many books on the Ukrainian Canadian experience that I couldn’t possibly list them all (but that shouldn’t stop you from trying). Here are some notable ones I’ve come across:
Svieto : celebrating Ukrainian-Canadian ritual in east central Alberta through the generations
Ukrainian people places : the Ukrainians, Germans, Mennonites, Hutterites and Doukhobors and the names they brought to Saskatchewan
Ukrainian Pioneer Days in Early Years 1898-1916 in Alvena and District, Sask.
Ukrainian rite Catholic Church : an account of church activities in Calgary
Ukrainian vernacular architecture in Alberta
Vita : a Ukrainian community : it’s background and beginnings.
Maple leaf and trident : the Ukrainian Canadians during the second World War
Pioneer profiles : Ukrainian settlers in Manitoba
Hardships & progress of Ukrainian pioneers : memoirs from Stuartburn colony and other points
Spruce, swamp and stone : a history of the pioneer Ukranian settlements in the Gimli area
Reflections and reminiscences : Ukrainians in Canada, 1892-1992
Multiculturalism and Ukrainian Canadians : identity, homeland ties, and the community’s future
Between two worlds : the memoirs of Stanley Frolick
Galicia and Bukovina : a research handbook about Western Ukraine, late 19th and 20th centuries