Vantage Points Series : Churches & Cemeteries

All Saint's Church   Web  / PDF Vol.  III, Page 34 1888 – 1929

The All Saint’s Church and Cemetery served as a landmark and community centre for over 30 years before the numbers in the parish could no longer support it.

Chain Lakes Quaker Church  |Web  / PDF Vol.  III, Page 46

The area around Chain Lakes was settled by Quakers—also commonly known as “Friends.”

Copley Church  Web  / PDF Vol.  II, Page 40 1890 - 1913

In the extreme southwest corner of the province of Manitoba there sits the ruins of a small church. The first church of any denomination to be built west of the Souris River.

Grande Clairière Convent   Web  / PDF Vol.  I, Page 29

The beginning of the Grande Clairière Convent was marked in 1898 when Father J. Gaire, the parish priest from Grande Clairière, was visiting the family of one of his parishioners in France.

Prairie Skills Centre Web  / PDF Vol. III   , Page  43

When the two congregations joined together and formed the Union Church, the old fieldstone building was left empty. Since that time it has served a multitude of purposes.

Purple Hill Church         Web  / PDF Vol.  III, Page 42

In 1898 the Purple Hill Church, located in the Medora area, was opened and dedicated.

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