Fonds consists of textual records, photographs, negatives, glass plate negatives, transparencies, and cinefilms created by Nicholas W. Gavinchuk in the course of his personal and professional life. Fonds includes portraits and photographs depicting various people, buildings, and views in the Smoky Lake, Alberta area and in various Ukrainian communities, as well as some photographs depicting various people, buildings, and views of Winnipeg, Manitoba and Vancouver, British Columbia. The cinefilms depict various people, views, buildings, and celebrations in the Smoky Lake, Calgary, and Edmonton areas including schools, parades, Ukrainian celebrations, sports, the railway, farming, various industries, and religious ceremonies. The textual records include correspondence, notes, notices, letterhead, postcards, receipts, lists of high school students, projection licenses, a receipt book, biographical sketches, appointments, advertising material, returned cheques, and agreements, insurance policies, certificates, legal records, a receipt book, issues of Ukrainian Voice, annuals from St. John's Institution and the Ukrainian Mutual Aid Society, and various photographs and cinefilms depicting the Gavinchuk family. The series included in this fonds are: (G) General collection; (G-P) Portraits; (G-W) Weddings and Anniversaries; (G-F) Funerals.
Gavinchuk, Nicholas W.