Formal UGG-NCR meetings for this season follows our traditional approach of being convened on the fourth Tuesday of each month, with the exception of December where there we will not be any meeting. Meetings will also be suspended for the summer months of June, July and August. Start time is 7:30 PM (Eastern) unless otherwise noted.
Since the start of January 2020, the UGG-NCR’s formal monthly meetings have been delivered as on-line “Webinars” rather than in-person presentations / discussions.
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“A Collective Biography of the Leadership of the Ukrainian Political Left in Canada, 1918-1991: An Overview” by Myron Momryk
This presentation focused mainly on the leadership of the Ukrainian Farmer Labor Temple Association (ULFTA), the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC), Workers Benevolent Association (WBA), the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) and allied organizations during the years 1918-1991. Among the Ukrainian national organizations in Canada, the ULFTA and AUUC produced an impressive collection of newspapers, reports and publications of all kinds that included information on their history, political activities and also biographies of their leadership. Much of this information is preserved at Library and Archives Canada (LAC).
There is a large collection of files at LAC on the personal history of individuals that can form the basis for a collective biography of the leadership. In this presentation, I plan to discuss and analyze the leadership individually and collectively during various episodes in their history. This study should provide an insight into the story of the Ukrainian left in the larger Ukrainian Canadian community.
A video recording of the Webinar presentation can be found here
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