The collection is based on the Ukrainians Abroad: News & Views newsletter, compiled by Dr. Serge Cipko, of the Ukrainian Diaspora Initiative, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. The newsletter brings together news stories relating to Ukrainians outside of Ukraine. Each newsletter consists of various news, featuring Ukrainian communities around the world. Included are articles related to Ukrainians in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela in Latin America; Canada and the United States in North America; Libya and Mozambique in Africa; Australia and New Zealand in Australasia; and Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan in Asia and Europe.

Source: Based on the press release for the 100th anniversary issue of Ukrainians Abroad: News and Views

The Myron Momryk Ukrainian Canadian family history collection is an annotated bibliography that includes items housed in a number of institutions, with the majority held in Library and Archives Canada. Other institutions include Vancouver Public Library, Ottawa Public Library, Manitoba Legislative Library, Centenary Pioneer Recognition Program and the Alberta-Ukraine Genealogical Project, Family History Library (LDS) at Salt Lake City, and private collections. This collection contains 76 items about Ukrainian Canadian family history, and the items are comprised mainly of text, photographs, and maps. The publications in this collection are in English. 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.

The collection consists of films used in an itinerant picture show that toured through rural Saskatchewan, particularly through Ukrainian communities around Regina, during the 1930s-50s. The films include episodes of popular series such as Tarzan of the Apes, Dick Tracy, Krazy Kat, and Hopalong Cassidy; full-length genre films including Westerns and melodramas; comedy shorts; compilations of trailers for Hollywood features; episodes of Canadian Movietone News for 1950-51; a documentary about Inuit life in the 1940s; and two feature-length Ukrainian films that were made in North America. Both of these films were produced by Ukrainian-Canadian Vasile Avramenko. The first is entitled Cossacks in Exile (Zaporozhets za dunaem) (Edgar L. Ulmer, 1938), while the second is entitled Marusia (Leo Bulgakov, 1938). These films are in the Ukrainian language with English subtitles, were specifically made for the expatriate Ukrainian community in North America, and are rare examples of Ukrainian commercial filmmaking in North America.

Many of the films are fragments of larger works, but it is unclear if the complete films were ever shown as part of the travelling picture show.

The collection also contains a poster for Cossacks in Exile and an original cardboard box used to house one of the film reels.

This collection includes negatives and photographs, cameras, and other photographic paraphernalia. It also includes a very rich collection of letters. Most of the letters are written in Ukrainian and English, some of them are also written in Polish and Russian. A large part of the correspondence consists of business letters (mostly written in English), family correspondence, and correspondence with friends. There is also a large group of letters from the Old Country, mostly from Lena and Thomas’ relatives, but also from friends and neighbours.

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.