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ID 382 SubmitterName Hawkins, Kevin SubmitterEmail kevin.s.hawkins@ultraslavonic.info Name Multicultural Canada URL http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca Creator Simon Fraser University (SFU) Library and the University of Toronto Library (UTL) Manager Lynn Copeland, Simon Fraser University Participating http://multiculturalcanada.ca/Partners Funder   Host   Description Multicultural Canada preserves the history and heritage of Canada's minority groups and makes it freely and widely accessible via the Internet. Multicultural Canada contains unique cultural materials, such as newspapers, magazines, newsletters, calendar-almanacs, organizational records, oral testimonies, photographs, letters, diaries, and books, from a large cross-section of ethnic communities. Those communities of interest to Slavic and East European researchers include Ukrainians, Doukhobors, and Hungarians. Goal access Digital processes scanning Inception   Future plans   Collection    Title Dukhobor Collection of James Mavor URL http://multiculturalcanada.ca/node/1523 Creator   Description The Dukhobors are a religous group originating in Ukraine, where they suffered periodic discrimination by Tsarist authorities. At the end of the 19th century, during a period of intense political persecution due to their pacifism, thousands of Dukhobors emigrated to Canada. James Mavor (1854-1925) was a political economist, teacher, writer and art collector. In 1898, at the request of Petr Kropotkin, Mavor was instrumental in facilitating the Dukhobor migration. He continued throughout his life to be a staunch supporter of the Dukhobors following their settlement in Canada. His papers, digitized here, consist largely of correspondence, from the initial inquiry by Petr Kropotkin to Mavor in July 1898 to the arrival of 7,500 Dukhobors in 1899-1900, and the first years of their settlement in Saskatchewan. Important correspondents include government officials such as Clifford Sifton and James A. Smart of the federal Department of the Interior and W.F. McCreary, Commissioner of Immigration in Winnipeg, and Dukhobor spokesmen and leaders such as Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Vladimir Chertkov, D. Khilkov, and Petr Verigin. Subsequent correspondence is mainly concerned with the period 1906-1907 and 1919 when Dukhobor communities were under threat of expropriation of their lands. The series also contains printed material, including pamphlets and other articles, on the Dukhobors; Mavor's own notes and reports, including a daybook kept during his trip to Western Canada in 1899; and photographs of Dukhobor settlements in Canada. Some of the material is in Russian. Subject focus   Geographical focus Ukraine Canada Chronological focus 1800H-1900H 1890D-1910D 1898-1919 Language of items eng Size of collection   Format of original items manuscript text Source type primary Identifier for original items   Location of original items University of Toronto Library Format of surrogate items image/jpeg Metadata/encoding scheme   Medium of collection   Web services   Access conditions/rights asserted Permission to use material from this item for purposes other than those granted in the Canadian Copyright Act must be obtained in writing from the copyright holder. Preauthorized permission is granted to educational institutions, teachers, and students to reproduce, perform, publish, exhibit, crop, reverse, translate, archive the material for noncommercial purposes. Made available   Frequency of additions   Future plans         Title Ukrainian Collection URL http://multiculturalcanada.ca/ukr Creator   Description Ukrainians began arriving in Canada perhaps as early as the 18th century, however the mass immigration began in 1891. By 1914 there were 170,000 Ukrainians in Canada, most of them peasants who were specifically desirable to Canada as farmers experienced in working in a similar environment. They were joined by another wave of 68,000 immigrants during the inter-war years, and regular immigration thereafter continued to swell their numbers. As of 1911, 94% of Ukrainian-Canadians lived in the prairie provinces. This concentration produced an active ethnic and religious environment from which numerous publications emerged. The collection found here includes magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and calendar-almanacs, and they document the development of a specifically Ukrainian-Canadian culture. The materials are largely in Ukrainian. Subject focus   Geographical focus Ukraine Canada Chronological focus 1800H-1900H 1890D-1910D 1891-1914 Language of items ukr Size of collection   Format of original items manuscript text Source type primary Identifier for original items   Location of original items University of Calgary Library Format of surrogate items image/jpeg Metadata/encoding scheme   Medium of collection   Web services   Access conditions/rights asserted Permission to use material from this item for purposes other than those granted in the Canadian Copyright Act must be obtained in writing from the copyright holder. Preauthorized permission is granted to educational institutions, teachers, and students to reproduce, perform, publish, exhibit, crop, reverse, translate, archive the material for noncommercial purposes. Made available   Frequency of additions   Future plans         Title Ukrainian Collection of John Luczkiw URL http://multiculturalcanada.ca/jl Creator   Description his collection was assembled by John Luczkiw (1923-1974), an immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1950. The collection contains material on Ukrainians published in Canada from 1900 to 1950. Most of the material pertains to the first wave of Ukrianian immigration which began in 1891 and ended with the coming of the First World War, and the second wave of immigration which lasted from about 1922 to 1939. The collection includes the publications of various Ukrainian-language publishing houses and printing presses, including the Socialist press of the inter-war period. Subject focus   Geographical focus Ukraine Canada Chronological focus 1800H-1900H 1890D-1910D, 1920D-1930D 1891-1914, 1922-1939 Language of items ukr Size of collection   Format of original items manuscript text Source type primary Identifier for original items   Location of original items University of Toronto Library Format of surrogate items image/jpeg Metadata/encoding scheme   Medium of collection   Web services   Access conditions/rights asserted Permission to use material from this item for purposes other than those granted in the Canadian Copyright Act must be obtained in writing from the copyright holder. Preauthorized permission is granted to educational institutions, teachers, and students to reproduce, perform, publish, exhibit, crop, reverse, translate, archive the material for noncommercial purposes. Made available   Frequency of additions   Future plans         Title 1956 Hungarian Memorial Oral History Project URL http://multiculturalcanada.ca/node/1521 Creator   Description The 1956 Hungarian Memorial Oral History Project celebrates the refugees of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by digitizing 400 hours of oral testimonies collected by second and third generation Hungarian-Canadians. The interviewees tell their personal stories of their involvement in the 1956 Revolution, their reasons for leaving and means of escape, places they lived en route to Canada, and the course of their lives in Canada. They also describe their ongoing relationship to their culture, language and religious practices, and to the community both in Canada and still in Hungary. Subject focus   Geographical focus Hungary Canada Chronological focus 1900H 1950D 1956 Language of items hun Size of collection   Format of original items audio Source type primary Identifier for original items   Location of original items Multicultural History Society of OntarioMulticultural History Society of Ontario Format of surrogate items audio/mpeg Metadata/encoding scheme   Medium of collection   Web services   Access conditions/rights asserted Permission to use material from this item for purposes other than those granted in the Canadian Copyright Act must be obtained in writing from the copyright holder. Preauthorized permission is granted to educational institutions, teachers, and students to reproduce, perform, publish, exhibit, crop, reverse, translate, archive the material for noncommercial purposes. Made available   Frequency of additions   Future plans