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Time Travel: Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village |
Women of Aspenland Images from Central Alberta
Aspenland is the term used to describe central Alberta. This site features a virtual exhibit exploring the women and events of this part of Alberta. You can read or listen to readings about the area, view photos, and find out about more than 170 of the women who helped shape the communities.
Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village
The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village is an open-air museum that was built to resemble pioneer settlements in east central Alberta. This Web site uses maps, interviews, music, photographs and more to help you discover and learn more about the buildings, history, and lifestyles of some of Alberta's early settlers.
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Time Travel: Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village |
Take a virtual tour of the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village to learn more about one culture of people, the Ukrainians, who settled in Alberta.
1. Click here to begin your virtual visit to the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage
Village .
2. Read each screen and follow the guided tour to help you answer the following
questions. Each Web page you come to has a title. The title given beside the
question tells you which page has the answer to the question. Sometimes you
have to scroll through lots of pages to find the right one! Click here to download
a worksheet on which to record your answers.
a) Village History: What is the major theme of the
village?
b) What to expect on site: What is the "living history"
approach used in the village?
c) Site landscape: What are the three zones that the
Village has been organized into?
d) Emigration and Settlement: Where did the
Ukrainian pioneers come from?
e) Emigration and Settlement: Why did they leave
the Ukraine?
f) Pylypow House: What did Iwan Pylypow tell other
Ukrainians that caused them to come to Canada?
g) Hawreliak House: From looking at the floor plan
and the photographs of the Hawreliak House, would
you say that this family had found a better life in
Alberta than that they left in the Ukraine?
h) The Newly Arrived Immigrants: What was the
Canadian government's homestead program?
i) Burdei: What is a burdei?
j) Luzan Grocery: What purposes did the community
store serve?
k) Kiew Hall: What events were held at community
halls?
3. After you have taken the virtual tour of the Village, write a paragraph
summarizing when the Ukrainians came to Alberta, why they came, what
affected where they settled in Alberta, and what their communities were like.
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