This is a page of personal links to miscellaneous publications, videos, and other presentations
New Brunswick Videos
This is my portion of the Miramichi Supports Ukraine fundraising concert held at the Kin Centre in Miramichi in October 2022 referenced below. It is a Facebook video (thanks, Shel!), so please sign into Facebook to view it.
This is my speech, etc. prior to the Miramichi Supports Ukraine fundraising concert held at the Kin Centre in Miramichi in October 2022. It is a Facebook video (thanks, Sherry!) so please sign into Facebook to view it.
This video (in Ukrainian) has seemingly had more to do with encouraging Ukrainians moving to Canada to choose Miramichi, NB as a landing place than any other enticement. Master videographer, Serhiy Seniv (Video Pro Video), professionally filmed and overdubbed it in Ukrainian – it presents Miramichi as the warm and welcoming place I encountered when I first visited here in 2000 and many times thereafter before moving to New Brunswick.
Wes Perry Photography filmed and edited this video (in English) a little over a month after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It was part of the Ukrainian Club of Moncton‘s “Canadians with Ukrainian Roots” series. It is a Facebook video, so please sign into Facebook to view it.
Master's Thesis (university of Alberta, 1986)
Mykola Ivanovych (Nikolai Ivanovich) Kostomarov (1817-1885), Ukrainian historian and political thinker, has been called “one of the chief theoreticians of the Ukrainian national renaissance”. My thesis investigates how Kostomarov, who lived in what was then the Russian Empire, developed a view of Ukrainian history that reflected the national awakening of the time. He was one of the first to claim, rightfully, that the medieval Kyivan Rus’ period was Ukrainian, rather than Russian history, as the Russians had been portraying it for centuries.
Miscellaneous publications:
The St. Raphael’s Ukrainian Immigrants Welfare Association of Canada, an archival finder’s aid (in English and Ukrainian) prepared by Jaroslaw Iwanus and Wolodymyr Senchuk, published by the University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in 1988. In the mid 1920s, the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization decided to allow immigration from central and eastern Europe primarily for the purpose of populating remaining railway lands in western Canada. To facilitate the influx of Ukrainian immigrants in this regard, the St. Raphael’s Ukrainian Immigrants Welfare Association was formed. This finder’s aid references materials found at the Ukrainian Cultural and Education Centre in Winnipeg, MB.
The Iwan Boberskyj Collection, an archival finder’s aid (in English and Ukrainian) prepared by Jaroslaw Iwanus and Wolodymyr Senchuk, published by the University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in 1988. Iwan Boberskyj (1873-1947) was a fascinating figure in early 20th century Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian life. This finder’s aid references materials found at the Ukrainian Cultural and Education Centre in Winnipeg, MB.
Historical Driving Tour: Ukrainian Churches in East Central Alberta. Note that it is listed as having been authored by Diana Thomas Kordan, but it was subcontracted to me to do the actual writing. All of the information therein is drawn from an Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism (as it was then known) internal research report that I authored, entitled, “Pre-1950 Ukrainian Churches of East Central Alberta: An Architectural Survey” (1988).
Internal research reports that I wrote for the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village in Alberta, 1986-1989 (no links):
- Russia School: materials history, narrative history
- Russia School Barn: land use and structural history, materials history, narrative history
- Demchuk House: land use and structural history, materials history, narrative history
Book reviews:
Heather McBriarty, Amid the Splintered Trees (2021) My review (June, 2023)
Jonas Salzgeber, The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness (2019) – My review (January 2022)
Beau J. Brock et al., Run to Win: The Mongoose System – Coaching Middle School & Youth Basketball (2014) – My Review (July 2015) – Note: I wrote this before I actually implemented this system with the middle school boys I coached and it was every bit as successful over a number of years as my review suggested it would be! Read my 2018-2019 season wrap-up with the Grade 7 boys from École Charlie Killam School in Camrose, AB
William Mandel, Soviet but Not Russian: The ‘Other’ Peoples of the Soviet Union (1985) My review in East European Quarterly (Volume 20, #4 [Winter, 1986], pp. 505-506) My review on Amazon (same review)
Other:
- prepared hundreds of comprehensive real property appraisal reports in private appraisal practice
(2003-2019) - authored numerous newsletters over the years, including the Village of Bawlf “Village Voice” during the years that I was mayor there (2001-2004 and 2007-2010)
- edited Clarendon, AB community local history book (1985-1986)
- edited (including editorials) the “Canadian Studies Newsletter” at the University of Alberta (1980-1982)