Next Sask Ukrainian Historical Society conference is March 18

“In Baba’s Trunk”

Poster (PDF) and Registration form (PDF)

Saskatchewan Ukrainian Historical Society invites you to come and share the treasures found in Baba’s trunk. We will spend the day discovering, sharing, and preserving our Ukrainian heritage.

• Cemetery Preservation Project

The resting places of our ancestors lie scattered across the Saskatchewan prairie. The most recognizable is the cemetery near a church. One will also see cemeteries where a church once stood. Then there are the homestead cemeteries. Lest we forget about the cemeteries that have been forgotten and overgrown with vegetation.

You will hear about the work of one woman’s project to find, record the burials, and transcribe the headstones in cemeteries in the area she lives. Her quest first began with researching her family history and her project grew from there. She will share her project and experiences with you.

Presenter: Ilene Lequyere, The Cemetery Lady of the Southeast, Weyburn, SK

• Historical Places Initiatives

Scattered throughout our province are places of historical significance. Some of these sites have municipal, provincial, or federal heritage status. You will have the opportunity to learn the distinction between each of the three governmental levels as well as what such a distinction means to a historical site, to your local community, to our province and to our country. You will also learn about the government process to have a site in your community declared a heritage site.

Presenter: Jennifer Bisson, Project Officer, Historic Places Initiative, Heritage Resources Branch, Saskatchewan Culture, Youth, and Recreation

• Ukrainian Sites with Heritage Status

Several church parishes who have gone through the process and had their church declared a heritage site will share their experience with you. You will also learn more about the two oldest standing Ukrainian Byzantine churches in Saskatchewan. They were both built in 1903 and are ‘Jaroslaw’ -- Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic church in the RM of Orkney #244 and ‘Kaplechka’ -- Ascension Ukrainian Greek Orthodox church in the RM of Sliding Hills #273.

• Saskatchewan’s Ukrainian Legacy
A guide to the historical sites in the Ukrainian ethnic bloc settlement communities

This is the launching of the commemorative travel guide. This Centennial project was done by the Saskatchewan Ukrainian Historical Society. The travel guide is a listing of the Ukrainian historical sites found throughout the province which include churches, cemeteries, museums, homesteads, which communities have a pich (clay oven) as well as other community attractions.

This conference takes place Saturday, March 18, 2006, 8:30 am ~ 4:00 pm

Registration: $20 before March 11, 2006 ( $30 after March 11, 2006)

The lower level of All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox church (2616 Louise St), Saskatoon

Information: 306-652-5852, 306-664-0045, www.ucc.sk.ca/programs/programsHistorical.htm

Supported by Canadian Heritage, UCC-SPC, Sask Lotteries