ORAL HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN CANADAexcerpt from the Interview with OREST DZULYNSKY

OREST DZULYNSKY


Pharmacist

Date and Place of Birth: 1932 in Mechyschiv, Ternopilska Oblast, Ukraine Date of


Date of Interview: July 7, 2016

Place of Interview: Etobicoke, Ontario

Interviewer: Anastasia Leshchyshyn

Length of Interview: 00:43:29 + 00:13:02 = 00:56:31 (raw)


(Excerpt):


“I started as a vykhovnyk [counselor] for a hurtok [group], and was then a zviaskovyj [chapter manager] for a number of years, and organized different camps for the kurin [chapter]…I was stanychnyj [director] of Toronto, and holova KPS for Canada [President of Plast National Executive] …later on in 2000 I was the Vice President of the Holovna Plastova Bulava [General Plast Directorate], so I was a career Plastun. Actually I was more of a career Plastun than a professional pharmacist…”



CROSS REFERENCES:


• Orest Dzulinsky was interviewed by Orest Zakydalsky in Toronto on March 3, 2011 for the Ukraine Jewish Encounter (UJE) project. UCRDC Archive File #308.


• Orest Dzulinsky quoted in PLAST press release: “Ukrainian Youth Association PLAST Celebrates 100 Years” on Marketwired.com