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Old Posted Mar 4, 2020, 3:50 AM
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That picture gives me cathedral jealousy. I know I've mentioned it before, but Winnipeg's main English language Roman Catholic cathedral (there is also a French language one in St. Boniface) is a bit underwhelming. It dates back to 1880 when Winnipeg was basically a frontier town, and was expanded in 1896 when Winnipeg was still a small city. It's a nice enough cathedral and has been well maintained over the years, but it's way smaller than what you would expect to see. I find it surprising that Winnipeg never got a bigger, newer, grander one after the boom during the years leading up to WWI.


It's not huge, but it's a very nicely-designed building. Very Richardsonian.
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Old Posted Mar 4, 2020, 2:20 PM
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It's not huge, but it's a very nicely-designed building. Very Richardsonian.
No argument here. But I can't help wondering if a new cathedral had been built during Winnipeg's main boom years around 1910-1913 if we might have ended up with something on the epic scale of the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, MN... some of the most impressive buildings in Winnipeg date back to that era, so something along those lines, even if not quite as large, wouldn't have been out of the question.

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Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs Church Interior - Montreal


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Old Posted Jun 12, 2020, 11:50 AM
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St. James Catholic In Dufferin County, Ontario



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Not the best mosque I've seen, but the domes are nice and shiny. Located in Markham.


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Catholic Church in Kitimat BC. would have loved to get inside

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A small Russian Orthodox Church in a closed Shandro Museum, Alberta.
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Old Posted Jul 8, 2020, 8:50 PM
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^ That is probably the most traditional looking rural Ukrainian church I've ever seen in Canada. It looks straight out of the Carpathians.
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^ That is probably the most traditional looking rural Ukrainian church I've ever seen in Canada. It looks straight out of the Carpathians.
This museum appears to be abandoned. We stopped by because one of the houses was the house my father lived in when his family emigrated from Romania in 38. There is a larger RO church about 5 kms west that is still being used. My grand mother would walk to it for Sunday services even though she was Catholic.
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Those wooden churches. All it takes is one candle to fall over... just like the big Ukranian one in Brampton that is not very old and went up in blazes. It was supposed to replicate traditional church back home. Then it was rebuilt to look the same but I wonder if it was more fireproof somehow. Not sure how a newish wooden church would have found insurance.
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Pretty nice looking church for a town of only 7,500. Listowel, ON.


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1879 Roman Catholic Church in the Village of St-Isidore, about 70 kilometers outside of Ottawa, burned down in July 2016. This sort of thing seems to be fairly common nowadays. A new church opened this month on the same site, exactly 4 years after the fire.

The old Church.


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The Fire.




https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...s-up-in-flames



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...fire-1.3695610

The new church.


https://thereview.ca/2020/02/24/new-...-in-mid-march/
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Pretty nice looking church for a town of only 7,500. Listowel, ON.


https://www.knoxlistowel.ca/
Knox Presbyterian (1857(congregation)/1868(first church/1888(existing church)/1993(Sunday School)

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Ottawa's Knox Presbyterian. A Medieval looking beast on Elgin.


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I love these medieval-style piles.

Sad about the St. Isidore church burning.
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Ottawa's Knox Presbyterian. A Medieval looking beast on Elgin.


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1932. Their previous church was located on what is now the site of the National Arts Centre.
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Historically my American ancestors were Presbyterian yet I feel alienated in a Presbyterian church. (I tried going to Hamilton's Central Presbyterian a few year's ago - I like the people there but the theology really I can't stand.) There's a large number of Scots in Perth County who attend that Listowel church ha, but I always felt more (low church) Anglican even though I was raised Unitarian. I admire cottage country's simple wooden Anglican churches.
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Interesting architecture for this Baptist church in Oakville.



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Old Posted Sep 2, 2020, 6:38 PM
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Those wooden churches. All it takes is one candle to fall over... just like the big Ukranian one in Brampton that is not very old and went up in blazes. It was supposed to replicate traditional church back home. Then it was rebuilt to look the same but I wonder if it was more fireproof somehow. Not sure how a newish wooden church would have found insurance.
Almost 30 years ago I was part of one of the consulting teams for that project. If I recall it was quite the job to confirm that the pond on site was large enough to fight a fire in an area basically w/o watermains. I had left the GTA by the time it opened but I read about it and I gather it caught fire at night when no one was there.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...open-1.3787714

It reopened fairly quickly.
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