Interview with Anne Elias 2.4

Segment Synopsis: Parents’ friends and neighbors, and relationships with them that were pretty good helping each other.
Occasions to get together with neighbors: Sunday and holidays visits, attending family special events like christenings and weddings.
Work-bees to do some work together.
Home schedule: early to bed (before 8 pm, if 9 pm - that was very late), early to rise (6-7 am) to have breakfast and go to school. There was no radio to listen and too dark to read.
Spare time for children: "to horse around," also horse-riding. Almost no spare time for adults: sitting down and talking, neighbours visits as well.

Subjects: bees (social events); farming; friends; holidays; home; neighbors; work at home

Segment Synopsis: Metis as neighbors, communication with them, inviting them for family events. Ukrainian new-comers in the community, and relationships with earlier settlers.
Ethnic self-identification as Ukrainians and/or Austrians (second for the first generation filling out formal forms and documents), also as Galicians and/or Bukovynians, where the latter two were most often rather than Ukrainian. Anne's mother was from Bukovyna, and father from Halychyna. Sometimes the term "Galitsiany" was used.

Keywords: Austrians; Bukovyna; Halychyna; Metis; Ukrainians

Subjects: cultural groups; ethnic groups; ethnicity; neighbors

Segment Synopsis: Decision making in the family: mostly mother made decisions. When disciplining children, they were more afraid of father rather than of mother.
Forms and ways to address parents.
Children punishment for misbehaving: spankings and scoldings. Rewarding for good behavior: pray.
Fights between the brothers and sisters - there were five in the family.

Subjects: decision making; disciplines; families; family life; punishment; sibling rivalry; siblings

Segment Synopsis: The family did not keep in touch with their relatives back in Ukraine. Maybe, because of the postal problems: a post-office was about 20 miles from the farmstead.

Subjects: letters (correspondence); post offices; postage stamps

Segment Synopsis: A far away distance was of about 20 miles away. Seeing each other at Khram at grandmother's house.

Keywords: Khram

Subjects: kinship

Segment Synopsis: Objects of sentimental or emotional value that have been passed down to offspring: little things from mother and father taken from the house for memory.

Subjects: heirlooms; material culture

Segment Synopsis: Though never discussing that with her older relatives, Anne assumes that both her parents and grandparents were happy with their life in Canada.

Subjects: life