Yesterday the Burnetts and we toured the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village located 25 minutes east of Edmonton. The village "is an open-air museum that uses costumed historical interpreters to recreate pioneer settlements in east central Alberta; . . . it shows the lives of Ukrainian Canadian settlers from the years 1899 to 1930. Buildings from surrounding communities have been moved to the historic site and restored to various years within the first part of the twentieth century."

Canada was anxious to bring settlers to the Alberta Province. Immigrants were given 160 acres of forested or prairie land to live here. Conditions were so poor in Ukraine that thousands came. "By 1914 the zone of Ukrainian settlement stretched for 110 kilometres (68 mi) from Edna-Star in the west to Slawa in the east and approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) from Smoky Lake in the north to the outskirts of Mundare and Vegreville in the south."

The red box shows the general area where the Ukrainian immigrants settled.

Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church

Sod roof house-1893

Village employee in character