Jars Balan is a lifelong activist in the Ukrainian Canadian community. He has authored numerous scholarly and popular articles on Ukrainian Canadian history, literature and theatre and also authored an illustrated history of Ukrainians in Canada. He has been an active staff member of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta since its inception.

In this presentation, Jars provided an overview of the various sources available to researchers interested in the Ukrainian Canadian experience based on his own writing and research over the years. He described the digitized sources available by searching on the internet, especially catalogues of university and community libraries and archives, and also at provincial and national archives. He described in general terms, the written and published record from academic conferences and dissertations to popular publications such as novels, short stories and poetry. His emphasis was on the English-language sources including mainstream newspapers, magazines and popular literature. He also mentioned material published in Ukrainian both in Canada and in Ukraine. He listed names of Canadian writers of Ukrainian descent that have a record of writing on Ukrainian topics.

A video recording of Jars Balan’s Webinar presentation can be found here.  We also have recordings of the Introductory and Q&A segments from that evening.

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