Baba speaks about the employment circumstances that led her father to Sudbury. Clip Length: 1:27

Web of Stories, Page 1, Clip 0: Olga Zembrzycki

Nick and Elsie Solski (nee Kotyluk) discuss the ethno-linguistic divisions within Coniston. Clip Length: 0:40

Web of Stories, Page 1, Clip 7 - Nick and Elsie Solski

Patricia Chytuk (nee Urchyshyn) speaks about coming to Sudbury from Western Canada. Clip Length: 4:33

Web of Stories, Page 1, Clip 9 - Patricia Chytuk

Oryst Sawchuk speaks about his mother’s boarding business. Clip Length: 1:44

Web of Stories, Page 4, Clip 12 - Oryst Sawchuk

Baba remembers the Depression, speaking about a Ukrainian family that was evicted from this former house.

Interviews

Memoryscape, Clip 1 - Eviction

Baba remembers the Kuchmar family that lived in this house, recalling its members and the hard times that they faced.

Interviews                    

Memoryscape, Clip 2 - Mine Accident

Baba speaks about the dances that she used to attend in the basement of this building.

Memoryscape, Clip 3 - Dancing

Baba recounts her childhood memories of this home, which used to be a boarding house.

Memoryscape, Clip 4 - The Okalita Boarding House

Baba speaks about her memories of this building, which used to be a general store, noting its history and her personal connection to it.

Memoryscape, Clip 5 - Neighbourhood General Store

Baba remembers her Depression-era experiences in this house, which used to be a boarding house. She explains the conditions that led her father to lose it, her mother’s responsibilities in this boarding business, and the important role that St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic church played in her parents’ lives.

Memoryscape, Clip 6 - 587 Kathleen Street

Baba speaks about the Sunday night dances that she attended here with her friends.

Memoryscape, Clip 7 - The Croatian Hall

Baba points out that this building used to be a general store that was operated by the only Jewish man in the Donovan.

Memoryscape, Clip 17 - The Jewish Store

Baba speaks about a Ukrainian woman who lived on this lot and made a living by bootlegging.

Memoryscape, Clip 18 - Bootlegging

Baba discusses how neighbours, of various ethnicities, interacted with each other in Donovan.

Memoryscape, Clip 19 - Inter-Ethnic Relations

Baba recounts her memories of the Chinese man who had a laundry business on this lot, remembering how she and her friends teased him.

Memoryscape, Clip 20 - The Chinese Laundry

Baba recounts the Priemski family and the fundraising functions held in their boarding house for St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church; the house was demolished and the lot is now empty.

Memoryscape, Clip 21 - The Priemski Boarding House

Baba remembers her interactions with the bank’s manager and his role in the community.

Memoryscape, Clip 22 - The Bank

Baba speaks about her childhood memories of this home, where she spent her childhood.

Memoryscape, Clip 24 - The House on Frood Road

Baba shares her memories of this lane, which is located behind the home in which she spent the bulk of her childhood.

Memoryscape, Clip 23 - The Back Lane

The Burke family used to live in this apartment building. Baba was close friends with Lorraine and Irene Burke and recounts her memories of playing with them in the neighbourhood.

Memoryscape, Clip 25 - The Burke Family

Before St. David’s Catholic school was built, this was an empty lot. Baba recounts the fun she and her friends and brothers had here. This is the last stop in the neighbourhood, if you are walking the route.

Memoryscape, Clip 26 - St. David's School

Stacey Zembrzycki was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, and currently resides in Montreal, Quebec, where she teaches in the Department of History and Classics at Dawson College. The granddaughter of two miners who came from Warsaw, Poland, and Mossey River, Manitoba, to work in Sudbury’s nickel mines in the postwar period, she spent the bulk of her childhood in their homes, listening to their stories but mostly those told by her grandmothers.

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