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Philip Ruh fonds
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Blueprint Collection

23 oversized folders of blueprints and sketches by Philip Ruh.
The blueprints and sketches comprise churches and church features (fences, bell towers, gates) from across Canada and into the United States: Ladywood, MB; Cook's Creek, MB; Edmonton, AB; Rossdale, MB; Prince Albert, SK; Saskatoon, SK; West Easton, PA; Dauphin, MB; Kenora, ON; Ottawa, ON; Toronto, ON; St. Catharine, ON; Winnipeg, MB.

Photo Collection

The Philip Ruh Photo Collection consists of 951 photographs and photo postcards, along with 16 glass slides.

Philip Ruh fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1905-1983

Fonds consists of the following documentary forms: photographs and blueprints.

Ruh, Philip, 1883-1962

PRPC0409

Back: "Church page for March 30 30cms X 4" Front: "New St. Mary’s Church Mountain Rd., Man." Architect Victor Deneka designed the new St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church after Father Ruh’s church was struck by lightning and was burned to the ground in 1966.

Mountain Road, Manitoba.

PRPC0889

Photo by Napoleon Photo Studio. C. 1967. Sacred Heart of Jesus. S/A. Winnipeg, Manitoba.

PRPC0888

Photo by Napoleon Photo Studio. C. 1967. Blessed Virgin Mother by Sviatoslav Hordhynsky. Holy Eucharist Church, East Kildonan. Winnipeg, Manitoba.

PRPC0404

St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church was struck by lightning and burned to the ground within hours. Only the cross in the foreground and the bell tower at the extreme left survived the flames.

Mountain Road, Manitoba.

PRPC0407

The concrete footings and bell tower bear silence witness, with the unscathed fir trees, to the rubble that once was St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church. Built entirely of wood within eleven months, between 1924-1925, the church was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.

Mountain Road, Manitoba.

PRPC0405

An unidentified witness of the ruin and rubble of St. Mary’s Catholic Church which was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. The bell tower, in the centre of the photo, survived the rapid flames.

Mountain Road, Manitoba.

PRPC0408

An unidentified man stands on the concrete steps, pondering the rubble, surrounded by the unscathed fir trees which survived the rapid blaze when St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.

Mountain Road, Manitoba.

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