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Originally Posted by esquire
Very interesting... that's a pretty traditional-looking church. I am somewhat surprised that there are Ukrainian Catholic churches in rural areas and small towns east of the Great Lakes. I always figured Ukrainian settlement in Canada was predominantly in the west, with those in the east gravitating towards cities.
I had never heard of Tiny before coming across your post.
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Yeah, it is surprising. "Ethnic" churches, especially those that have expensive unique featres, aren't usually in rural rural areas. Of course, there are many on the fringe rural area of cities where land was cheap and still accessible to their communities.
I knew about the Ukranians given farm land out west so it makes sense out there due to settlement patterns. Why there is a Ukranian church in Tiny, ON, I don't know. There is a heavy seasonal Polish population who cottage there, such as my inlaws, and why the nickname for the beach is Polska Playa, but there is no Polish church. And there are some Polish Canadians who eventually retired there or relocated. My mother in law would sometimes go to church during cottage weekends and would end up at that one since it's close enough to what you'd get at any of the Polish churches back in Mississauga.
And literally no one has heard of Tiny. People know neighbouring Wasaga, Penetang and Midland. Though nobody knows about Tay either. Not surprising given these two towns have no downtown and are really just amalgams of really small communities that also have no Main Street.
Tiny, Tay and Flos (later amalgamated into Springwater, which is north of Barrie) were all named after Lady Maitland's dogs.
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