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Ukrainian Diaspora Studies

Ukrainian Diaspora Studies is a series of free community learning courses about Ukrainians in Canada and around the world, created by Dr. Oleksandr (Sasha) Kondrashov. Lecture recordings, slides and notes stay open for self-paced learning. This page also gathers the ILoveUkrEng language courses, the Ukrainian Canada map and playlists.

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Ukrainians in Canada: An Introduction

A self-paced course on the 130-year history of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, created as part of the partnership between Thompson Rivers University (TRU) and Cherkasy National University. It was first offered as a free community learning course in January to April 2021, open to community members, students and faculty in Canada and Ukraine.

The course created a space to collect resources and celebrate Ukrainian-Canadians’ lives in the last 130 years. We heard stories about multiple forms of oppression that people of Ukraine experience in Ukraine and Canada and how they overcome challenges and build communities across Canada to strengthen their Ukrainian-Canadian identities. The course was a celebration of stories from Ukrainians in Canada from all waves of immigration.

Watch the introduction video on how to take the self-paced course: Ukrainians in Canada course introduction (YouTube). You can download all 310 slides as a 31-page handout with 200 learning activities, or open each lecture as a PDF:

  • Unit 0 Ukrainians in Canada: Course Design
  • Unit 1 Waves of Ukrainian immigration to Canada over 125+ years: Socio-Economic and Socio-Cultural Integration
  • Unit 2 Push Factors: History of Ukraine and factors that influence the decision to immigrate to Canada
  • Unit 3 Pull Factors: History of Canada and its immigration policy to attract immigrants
  • Unit 4 Prominent Ukrainian Canadians
  • Unit 5 First Wave of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada: Socio-Economic and Socio-Cultural Experiences (1896-1917)
  • Unit 6 Second Wave of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada: Socio-Economic and Socio-Cultural Experiences (1918-1940)
  • Unit 7 Third Wave of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada: Socio-Economic and Socio-Cultural Experiences 1: DP and UCC (1941-1960)
  • Unit 8 Third Wave of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada: Socio-Economic and Socio-Cultural Experiences 2: Multiculturalism (1961-1990)
  • Unit 9 Fourth, Fifth and Sixth? Waves of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada: Socio-Economic and Socio-Cultural Experiences: (1991-present)
  • Unit 10 Ukrainian-Canadian Folklore: Literature and Language Across Waves of Immigration
  • Unit 11 Ukrainian-Canadian Concerns: Selected by Class Participants
  • Unit 12 The future of Ukrainian Canadian Diaspora: Course Review

Ukrainian Communities in Canada

Recordings of the course on Ukrainian communities across Canada, with guest presentations:

Ukrainian Diaspora Outside of Canada and Ukrainian-Canadian Cuisine

Recordings of the two paired courses. Each class looked at Ukrainians in one country and at one part of Ukrainian-Canadian cooking.

Part 1

Part 2

Zoomeets

Recorded conversations with guests of the Ukrainian Diaspora Studies course:

ILoveUkrEng: community language and learning courses

ILoveUkrEng (in Ukrainian #ЯЛЮБЛЮУКРАНГ, YaLiubliuUkrAnh, I love Ukrainian and English) is a set of free community courses first offered in 2022 with partners in Canada and Ukraine. The lecture notes stay open for self-paced learning.

ILoveUkrEng resources and community links

#ILoveUkrEng Resources

Ukrainian Language for English Speakers (ILoveUkrEng)

This introductory course is designed for anyone who wants to improve their Ukrainian language skills through their knowledge of the English language. The course uses a unique student-centred, independent study on/off the ground cohort learning approach developed by Dr. Oleksandr (Sasha) Kondrashov to promote life-long learning.
This introductory course may be adapted to any learner as each learner will decide how much practice is needed to achieve their desired goal. The main purpose of the course is to improve conversational Ukrainian skills. In addition to the course’s main goal, students can choose what goals they want to develop during the course and let Dr. Kondrashov know how to support them in reaching their goals.

Lecture notes: Алфавіт, А , Б, Ц, Д, ЕЄ, Ф, ГҐ, Х, И І, Ї Й, К, Л, М, Н, О, ЮЯ, П, Р, С, Т, У, В, ШЩЬ, ЖЗЧ

English Language for Ukrainians (Ya Lublu Ukr Ang)

Lecture notes: Alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, XYZ

Ukrainian Language for Russian Speakers (Ya Lublu Ukrajinu)

Lecture notes: Alphabet, A

French Language for Ukrainian and English Speakers (Jaime Ukr Eng Fra)

A French course for Ukrainian and English speakers, offered in fall 2022.

Ukrainian History for English Speakers (I Love Ukraine History)

Lectures:

Family Financial Health (I Love Family Finance)

The course surveys topics that impact Canadian families’ financial health, including personal money management, mortgage financing, credit and debt, educational and retirement planning, taxation, insurance, savings and investments. Course textbook: Personal Finance (McGraw Hill Canada).

Language learning on YouTube

I learn additional languages using YouTube. If you have time to teach me some words in your mother language, please e-mail okondrashov@tru.ca. The playlist for language learning is here: Language learning playlist on YouTube

Ukrainian Canada map

Ukrainian Canada is a map of organizations, services and locations in Canada that have a Ukrainian connection. To add a new place, please contact Oleksandr (Sasha) Kondrashov at okondrashov@tru.ca.

The map is part of my lifelong commitment to locate places around the world that have a Ukrainian connection outside of Ukraine, and it will grow into a Ukrainian World Map. It became possible through personal funding and private donations (thanks to Larisa Haiduk for support to map organizations in Alberta) to hire a research assistant, and I am grateful to Yaryna Ivashchchyn for making this project a reality. In the summer of 2022, Yana Hulak and Sofiia Shmyhovska spent 12 weeks adding to the map as part of a Mitacs internship, which supported national coverage to help Ukrainians fleeing the war find safe spaces in Canada. Everyone is welcome to contribute.

Selected city guides

Media coverage of the map

Ukrainian-Canadian playlists

I am always interested in the intersectionality of Ukrainian-Canadian culture, and I create playlists to celebrate Ukrainian-Canadian cultural traditions. If you have other Ukrainian-Canadian playlist ideas, let me know and I will create them too.

More Ukrainian pages

Looking for something else? Try the Site Map or search the website at the bottom of this page.