Thomas M. Prymak is a writer, historian, and scholar who received his PhD at the University of Toronto and has taught History at the University of Toronto and at McMaster University in Hamilton, and Slavonic Studies and History at the University of Saskatchewan. He was raised in Winnipeg and currently lives in Toronto.
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PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION HISTORY 1) Ukrainian and Slavonic Canada: History, Statistics, and Identity Three Ukrainian Canadian Cultures; The Slavic Languages and Context; Where was Galicia and Who were the Galicians?; Canadian Mayflowerism; The Census of 1941 and its Antecedents; Post Second World War Immigration; Religion; Slavonic Canada Today: Languages versus Ethnic Origins 2) Ukrainian Canadians and their Prime Ministers Sir Charles Tupper gets a letter; Sir Wilfrid Laurier's "Sunny Ways"; Robert Borden Locks up Galicians; W. L. Mackenzie King; R. B. Bennett Cracks down on the Left; Mackenzie King Returns to Power; Louis St. Laurent goes to Church; "Dief the Chief" elected in Saskatchewan; Lester B. Pearson and the B and B Commission; Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Official Multiculturalism; Brian Mulroney Modifies Multiculturalism; Chretien's Diplomat, Harper's Apology, and "Old Stock Canadians"; Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland; Conclusions LANGUAGE, LANGUAGES, AND FAMILY NAMES 3) Discovering where a Ukrainian Canadian comes from Linguistically Kitchen Ukrainian; Christmas and New Year's Day; Folklore, Good Fortune, and Words for Hair Colour; The Psychology and Anthropology of Hair; The Language of Hair Colour Today; From High School French to a PhD in Ukrainian History; The Sounds of Slavic; Slavs, Glory, and "the Word"; Ukrainian on the Prairies; Canadianisms in Gara Culture; Some Puzzling Etymologies; The Indo-European Family 4) From Kitchen Ukrainian to English loan words: A Linguistic Adventure The Origins of Various Words for "Books"; Calques; Etymological Curiosities; Gender; Questions; Accent and Glued on Endings; Numbers; Other Slavic Traits; Names; Alphabets; Common Slavic; Beauty; Conclusion 5) Meanings of Ukrainian Family Names in North America Diminutives; Spelling; Surnames from a First Name of a Father or Mother; Baptismal Names; Personal Names from Place Names; Names from Ethnic Groups or Regions; Names from Professions; Personal Characteristics; Names from Animals, Food, and Drink; Compound Names; Consciously Adopted Surnames; Sports Personalities; Toponyms; Toponymic Folklore; Conclusions 6) Identifying Ukrainian and Slavic Family Names Names Ending in -chuk and -enko; Names Ending in -ski; The Difference between -ski and -sky; How the Galicians got their Family Names; The Russian -ov and -ev; The Russian -in; Names with a "k" in the Ending; Regional Variations; The Classic Patronymic -ovich or -evich; The South Slavic -ich; Other Endings too; The Slavic "Newman" is Very Widespread; Other Names Found Among More than One Slavic People; Migration and Politics; Name Changing in North America; Miklosich and Klymasz; Conclusion FOLKLORE 7) The 'Missing Canadians' in the Heroic Epic Songs of the Ukrainian People. Songs of Emigration and Immigration; Songs of success; Soviet Patriotism and Soviet Censorship; Post-Soviet Publications; Proverbs, Popular Wisdom, and the Philosophy of the Folk; Macaronic Verse; Missing Americans too? A Question of Ukrainian American Folklore 8) Ukrainian DP Folklore: A Neglected Legacy DP Doggerel; Dmytro Hulei and Post-Pioneer Verse; "The Red Rose" and Going za Dunai; Educated Jokes; Folksy "Plast" Campfires; Ethnic Jokes; Transformation of the Ethnic Joke in the 1970s; Political Jokes; Postscriptum IDENTITY 9) Thoughts on Canada's Changing Ethnic Mix: A Personal View from Toronto A History of Ethnic Tensions Preceding Multiculturalism; Where does Canadian Multiculturalism go from here? 10) What Our Name is and Where We Come From: Reflections on Ukrainian Canadian Identity AN EPILOGUE 11) Ethnicity and the Genealogical Clubs APPENDIX The Traditional Breakdown of the Slavonic Family of Languages SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY