Winter Walk to the Waskahegan Fire Tower
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Winter Walk to the Waskahegan Fire Tower

It was a beautiful, clear day on Sunday, January 5th, when I decided to take a winter walk in the Ministik Bird Sanctuary starting at the U of A access road gate with the final goal being the Waskahegan Fire Tower. Along the way I stopped at some key waypoints and took photos with my…

St. John The Baptist Russo-Greek Catholic Orthodox Church (Farus)
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St. John The Baptist Russo-Greek Catholic Orthodox Church (Farus)

This church was built in 1907 and is named “Farus” after the original owner of the land on which it was built. As the “Lamont County’s Self-Guided Church Tours” booklet notes, “the church’s tripartite shape points to its early construction date, as does the closed dome and the absence of a choir loft, both of…

Church of the Archangel St. Michael
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Church of the Archangel St. Michael

A simple log sanctuary was built on this land in 1904 by local Russian Orthodox partitioners. That church was destroyed by fire in 1914 but with financial help from the American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church another church was built by 1916. Around this time war and revolution in Eastern Europe at this time…

St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church
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St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church

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…

Holy Trinity Russo Orthodox Church (Old Wostok)
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Holy Trinity Russo Orthodox Church (Old Wostok)

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…