The Settlement on the Plains
This unique and classic 20-page Ukrainian monthly tabloid entitled "Tochylo" which meant Grindstone, featured satirical reviews of the news and subtle editorials on local issues that were submitted by readers and rewritten into humorous rhyme and verse by the editorial staff. It proclaimed itself as The Journal of Mirth, Madness and Merry-Making. Subscription: $1.50 per year (in advance), postage paid.
Landmark residence of Louis Wasserman, proprietor of a general store during the thirties, as viewed from the railway station. A wagon-load of grain in the foreground awaits unloading on the ramp of a grain elevator.
Ruins of the Arran post office, and slotted letter rack for persons who did not own combination lock-boxes, 2007. Postal service was begun on June 1, 1911 by John McLean and daughters Cassie and Maggie. Fourteen years later Thomas Terry left his homestead and served as postmaster from 1925 to 1954. The last mail was sorted by post-mistress Helen Hrycenko on July 31, 1989.
Five for 5¢. Any five boys who could raise a penny each could share dark secrets, as they sometimes did.
The legendary Waterman Waterbury furnace; a regular fixture in prairie schoolrooms from the Red River in the east to the foothills in the west. Scientifically engineered to sweep in cold air along the floor and circulate hot air from out the top, it was an expensive $168 in 1923.
St Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church, the first and oldest remaining Ukrainian catholic church in Canada, was constructed in 1898 at Mink Creek, Manitoba. Built of logs and covered with wooden siding, it measures only 12 by 15 feet. The church was attended by many of the families that later migrated to the Arran District. It has been relocated and is preserved as a national heritage on a bend in the Fishing River at the Trembowla Historical Site and Museum near Dauphin.
A wartime ration book and a cheque from Eaton's.
Icons of Christ and the twelve apostles in the Holy Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Kobzar district southeast of Arran. The custom was introduced into the Orthodox religion in the sixteenth century.
