This collection consists of a series of video cassettes produced by Kiev Glasnost Films, based in Toronto. They cover a wide range of topics about the country, including Ukrainian history, literature, film, geography and folk culture.
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Personal records of late Professor George S. N. Luckyj of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and family. Includes correspondence, manuscripts of published and unpublished works, notes and research materials on family history, photoprints.
Correspondence between Moira (McShane) Luckyj and her husband, George Luckyj during World War II. Personal correspondence written before and after their marriage on February 18, 1944. George Luckyj was serving in the British Army of the Rhine (1943-1947).
Personal records of Professor George S. N. Luckyj, consisting of baptismal certificates of his father and grandfather; other personal and professional correspondence; correspondence relating to his publications (1955-2001); material for his memoirs and drafts of other publications.
Personal records of George Luckyj, professor emeritus of Slavic Studies at the University of Toronto, and consisting of: personal and family correspondence; letters of Ostap Lutskyi from the Gulag; correspondence and reviews relating to his publications, including publication projects with Kiev; course notes and MA thesis; notebooks; family photographs (1900-1994); photographs taken in Kosiv (1931-1936) and of the British Army in Germany (1945-1947); photographs for Professor Luckyj's memoirs; postcard designed by him; and four audio cassettes of 'end of year reflections' (1980, 1983) and f
Personal correspondence, 1971, 1987-1997; correspondence with publishers regarding the History of Canadian Literature, 2nd ed. (1995-1997); letters from George Shevelov (1956-1997) and a chapter from his unpublished memoirs (1988); correspondence, notes and background material relating to the publication of selected letters of Panteleimon Kulish (1981); drafts of the first small thesaurus of the Ukrainian language (1997); photocopies of material from the Vaplite collection, Kharkiv (1925-1928).
Records documenting the activities of George Luckyj as a professor in and chair of Slavic Studies. Subjects covered include assimilation and the Ukranian diaspora; the Encyclopedia of Ukraine; and (on audiotape) the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto (1980). Correspondents include Nikolai Tolstoy and Jewhen Swerstjuk (Ievhen Sverstiuk). Much of the remaining correspondence relates to Professor Luckyj's publications, for which there are also notes, research files, some manuscripts and reviews.
George Stephen Nestor Luckyj (1919-2001) taught at the University of Saskatchewan (1947-1949), and the University of Toronto (1952-1984), where he occupied the position of chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures from 1957 to 1961. He took an active role in the establishment in 1976 and early years of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in Edmonton, and served as associate director in charge of its Toronto office until 1982.
Stanley Frolick (1920-1988) was a lawyer and a Ukrainian community leader in Canada. He held executive positions in several national Ukrainian organizations and was the founder of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Correspondence, legal documents, and minutes of meetings compiled by S.W. Frolick to support his contentions that certain events reported in the pamphlet, "The Five Years, related to the establishment of the first Chair of Ukrainian Studies", were misrepresented.