After arriving in the Wostok area in 1896 Polish settlers began work on a log chapel in 1900, completing it in 1905. A few years later a church bell was purchased and a belfry built to house it. Work started on a new church in 1914 and was completed the next year. And in a…
Built in 1900 after three years of labour, this church has the distinction of being the oldest original church in Lamont county. Later, the land the church and cemetery were built on was purchased from the CPR over a six year period from 1903 to 1909. In 1922 the nearby bell tower was built and…
The original settlers in the area around this church were Romanian Bucovinian (https://www.britannica.com/place/Bukovina ). Early services were held in homes. Although the cemetery was in use beginning 1907, land for the church was purchased in 1910 and the church built over 3 years, completed in 1913. The nearby “bell-house” was built in following years at…
The Ukrainian Orthodox parish members of this church separated from the Holy Trinity Church in Sunland in 1929 and after purchasing the land this church was built in 1932. The church was destroyed by fire only one year later in 1933, with another being built in 1934. In 1960 the interior was completely remodelled with…
After the original congregation of this church was formed in 1898, services were held in private homes for a number of years before work was completed on a church in 1904. This structure lasted about 30 years before it burned down in the late 1930’s. The present church was built in 1939. 360 Photo Post…
The original church on this site was built from 1901 to 1904. A second, larger church was started in 1917 and completed the next year. Between 1945-51 funding for a new church was gathered with the old church being dismantled in 1959 and a new church, the present structure, was completed in 1960. This solid-looking…
Without the Orthodox cross mounted high on the steeple of this church, this church could pass for a United Church. That’s because it originally was a United Church. As the “Lamont County’s Self-Guided Church Tours” booklet explains, a number of local people became disenchanted with the Catholic Church I the area and in 1925 started…
On July 18, 1897 two priests sent to this area from Seattle celebrated the first Orthodox liturgy sung on Canadian soil for some 380 settlers who had gathered at a homestead across the road from this the original church “Wostok” church, about 1 mile north from the present church. A church and cemetery were completed…
After a small chapel was built on this land in 1914, work on the present church began in 1918 and was completed eight years later in 1926. The full name of the church when it was incorporated was “Ruthenian Greek Catholic Parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Leeshore”. The church bell…
Little did I know when I visited this church that this congregation “can be traced back to 1897–1898, making it one of the first Russo-Greek Orthodox parishes in Canada.” A modest log church was built on this land at that time and served until 1920. The logs from that church were saved and sawed into…
