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Alexander Bunka fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1968-1977.

Reference:

R4883-0-0-E, MG31-H12

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102629

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Alexander Bunka fonds
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Date(s):

1968-1977.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

8.5 cm of textual records

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence with the Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker as well as other government officials in Canada and the United States; file pertaining to Valentyn Moroz, 1974 and printed material relating to various Ukrainian affairs; an article, and a typescript of an English translation, published by Mr. Alexander Bunka on the hardships of his parents, the first Ukrainian settlers in Alvena, Sask., in 1898.

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Bunka, Alexander, 1899-2000

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Bunka, Alexander, 1899-2000 : Alexander Bunka was born in Canada in February 1899. His parents arrived in Saskatchewan from Western Ukraine and settled 50 miles north of Saskatoon on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River near Batoche. Between 1921 and 1923 he worked in the law office of the Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker (later Prime Minister of Canada) as a Ukrainian-English interpreter.

In 1928, Bunka came to the United States after several years of farming. He was employed as a mechanic with the Santa Fe railroad, and later as a federal inspector of diesel locomotives. He also developed a ranch in the Mojave desert.

In 1962, Bunka retired to Tucson, Arizona, where he served as vice president of the Tucson Ukrainian Society. He wrote a short history of the early Ukrainian pioneers of the region around Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1969, which appeared in both Ukrainian and English in the newspaper Ukrainian Voice. This history was dictated to him by his parents as they remembered it.

Alexander Bunka passed away on January 31, 2000, in Ventura, California.

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General note:

Received in 1978 from Mr. Alexander Bunka.

Related material:

Additional material located at the University of Minnesota Archives and Special Collections.
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Canada - Officials and employees

Alexander Bunka - Correspondence, [1968-1977] Valentyn Moroz, 1974

John George Diefenbaker - Correspondence, 1968-1977

Alvena (Sask.) - History, 1968-1977

Alvena (Sask.) - Rural conditions, 1968-1977

Alvena (Sask.) - Frontier and pioneer life, 1968-1977

Alvena (Sask.) - Ukrainian Canadians, 1968-197

Ukrainian settlers, 1968-1977

Ukrainian Canadian literature, 1968-1977

Ukrainian publications, 1968-1977

United States - Officials and employees, 1968-1977

Settlement conditions

Settlement - Hardships

Ukrainian Canadians
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Private

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MG31-H12
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