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Church Bells
20 March 2006
Assiniboia,Saskatchewan

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Audio of Church Bells ringing

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Area Map
20 October 2005
Southern Saskatchewan
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CHURCHES OF SOUTH CENTRAL SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

Church buildings found within an 80km (50m) radius of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Steeple of St.Victor church
1914
St Victor, Saskatchewan
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Settlers setting down roots by establishing Faith Communities.

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Sitting Bull
1885
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This is an area unique in history as a First Nations hunting ground and seasonal camping area in wooded valleys around Montague Lake. Sitting Bull and his people were encamped here in the late 1800s.

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Early Immigrants
1905
Southern Saskatchewan
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Homesteaders came to this area to find a better life. This was true for the early Métis of the Red River in Manitoba, Easterners, as well as the immigrants from Europe.

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Bell at Flintoft Romanian Orthodox Church
1979
Flintoft, Saskatchewan
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Faith, diversity, and ethnicity of the settlers will be quite evident. This exhibition is about the structures that Faith Communities built; places of worship were constructed as soon as a community had sufficient members to support a spiritual leader and a structure for worship.

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Constrution of Assiniboia Lutheran
1959
Assiniboia,Saskatchewan
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The church helped the settlers to maintain their cultural traditions, language, and faith.
These settlers were the forerunners of ecumenism - embracing the diversity of their neighbors and often becoming involved in the construction of each other's churches. Building a church communicated to all that the settlers intended to make this area home.