A Time to Remember
A long lost Ukrainian-Canadian CBC documentary dating back to 1988 was recently rediscovered in a library. The now ancient video tape was preserved and posted on YouTube. The story documents 100 years of immigration from Ukraine to Canada. It was produced in tribute to 1000 years of Christianity in Ukraine -- at a time when the Soviet Iron Curtain prevented those still in Ukraine from practicing their faith, and even emigrating at will.
Aside from documenting what it means to be Ukrainian in the diaspora and reaffirming the thoughts we've all been having, it has some fascinating footage from the pre-Bolshevik era. Very important images of life in Ukraine under the monarchs. It also covers the hardships endured and the culture preserved on the prairie lands of the Canadian west.
The story of their immigration is so reminiscent of Irish immigration a little earlier during the famine years, and the immigration of today from Syria. Will this movement of people across lands never cease?
Watch the video on YouTube here.
Read the story about the video here.
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