The project’s goal is to record and preserve the life experiences of Ukrainian-Canadian personalities and activists who played important roles in settling, developing and shaping the Canadian Prairies. Key people who have made valuable contributions to various cultural and religious organizations, politics, academics, the arts, international relations and who are pillars in the Ukrainian community will be interviewed. The interviews will be catalogued to be a resource for scholars and the public.

The project may also use the material to produce short interviews to be aired on television. In addition, all the information collected in the project along with other Prairie oral history projects will be compiled into a research guide

PCUH is an academic research unit of STM, created in 1999 in partnership with the Ukrainian community of Saskatchewan to study Ukrainian-Canadian life, preserve relevant documentary materials, and disseminate the results.

On May 22, STM announced it will form a Ukrainian Studies Teaching Consortium — with the Universities of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta, and possibly Harvard.

Its aim is to give students from here access to courses on or in the Ukrainian language, culture and civilization. STM named Natalia Shostak as Co-ordinator of the Consortium.

And on May 24, STM announced the launch of a major capital fundraising campaign for the Prairie Center for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage.

“The U of S has a 50-year tradition of Ukrainian Studies, but has been along with many other liberal arts programs, under much stress,” STM stated.

Officials stated PCUH has demonstrated it can serve the needs of the Ukrainian community and students, and helps to bring STM and the U of S closer together.

For more information, contact communications.office@usask.ca

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