Robert Klymasz

During the early 1960s, Klymasz traversed the Canadian Prairies recording the folksongs and gathering other materials concerning the early pioneer Ukrainian immigration to Canada. These elderly immigrants and their descendants provided him with a wealth of material with which he was able to construct a portrait of Ukrainian-Canadian folk culture, especially rural culture, as it then existed. Most of these materials are today preserved in archives in Edmonton, Alberta , and Winnipeg, Manitoba and remain valuable resources for contemporary folklorists.

Klymasz's major published works consist of studies in Slavic-Canadian Onomastics , and Ukrainian-Canadian folklore, including the groundbreaking ''Introduction to the Ukrainian-Canadian Immigrant Folksong Cycle'' (1970), ''The Ukrainian Winter Folksong Cycle in Canada'' (1970), and the comprehensive ''Ukrainian Folklore in Canada'' (1980). His other contributions to scholarship include studies of subjects as varied as Ethnic Jokes , Ukrainian-Canadian pictoral art and Icon s, stories, and various musical genres.

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