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This collection comprises over 1000 letters (in Ukrainian and other languages), postcards, and related documents collected and preserved by leaders of the Ukrainian Women’s Association of Canada—most recently by Lesia Perritt. It captures the voices of skytaltsi, Ukrainian displaced persons (DPs), refugees, and forced labourers (Ostarbeiters) in post–Second World War Europe, particularly from 1945 to the early 1960s. The materials document appeals for assistance, personal narratives of survival, searches for loved ones, and expressions of cultural identity and resilience.

Included are:

Correspondence between UWAC leadership and Ukrainian displaced persons.
Letters to and from notable individuals, including military leaders, artists, writers, and educators.
Letters from Ukrainian pupils in DP camp schools in Germany addressed to Canadian schoolchildren.
A 1940s letter from UWAC to Eleanor Roosevelt urging the non-repatriation of Ukrainians to the Soviet Union.
Official UWAC correspondence with Canadian and British governmental departments in support of DPs and wartime efforts.
Printed materials such as a 1942 Canadian Women’s Army Corps conference program, brochures, press clippings, and internal reports.

The collection is multilingual—primarily in Ukrainian and English—and spans a wide geographic range, including Canada, Europe, North and South America, and the Middle East.

The fonds consists of correspondence, budgets, plans, and files related to the planning of Festival ’88. There are also similar records created during the course of administration of ACUA that offer evidence of the day-to-day management of the organization, planning and delivery of various events, workshops, projects and promotional materials, as well as long-term planning. The posters are advertisements for a public event celebrating the 10th anniversary of ACUA in 1996.

The BMUFA Ukrainian Canadian family history collection is housed in the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives at the University of Alberta. This collection contains 55 items about local Ukrainian Canadian family history, and the items are comprised mainly of text, photographs, and maps. Most of the textual records are written in English or Ukrainian. This collection has been created in an effort to help researchers, genealogists and the general public access small-scale publications which have been primarily published by families.