This Ukranian church is at Dauphin, Manitoba, where a National Ukranian Festival is held each summer. Ukranians are the most numerous of many minority groups in Manitoba and Winnipeg is the location of the Ukranian Cultural Centre, the largest outside the Ukraine.
 
 
 
 

Lower Fort Gary, about 32 kilometre (20 miles) north of Winnipeg, was built by the Hudson's Bay Company between 1831 and 1847. As late as 1911 it was still an important trading post for the company. The governor's stone house still stands within the fort. Among the displays are a fine collection of Indian relics, the fur loft, a York boat and a Red River cart.
 

Manitoba has a diverse cultural heritage. At Steinbach a pioneer village depicts the life of the first Mennonites, who came here from Russia seeking religious freedom in 1874. Mennonites are noted for their tasty and hearty fare, like "shoofly pie", which is so good you have to "shoo" the flies away, and chicken pot pie. Such food is served at the village.
There are two groups of Mennonites in Canada : the Russian Mennonites of Manitoba and the Pennsylvania-Dutch of Ontario. In the seventeenth century they fled from Europe, some to Russia and some to the United States. Many moved on, the former to Manitoba to escape persecution, and the latter to Ontario to remain under the English Crown following the American War of Independence.
 
 

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