[Inscription on the front in Father Ruh’s writing:] Builded by Rev. Phil. Ruh at Mountain Road 1924-1925 [Inscription in Father Ruh’s hand on the back:] s(e)ize: 120 feet long—96 “ wide—120 “ high

Mountain Road, Manitoba.

Father Ruh standing above and to the left of the group, with Mike Sawchuk standing at the far right, as the walls of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church begin to take shape. The wooden structure was completed within eleven months, between 1924 and 1925.

Mountain Road, Manitoba.

Mountain Road Church. The all-wooden structure of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, designed by Father Ruh and built within eleven months between 1924 and 1925.

Mountain Road, Manitoba.

Students in a concert, School of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, run by the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate.

Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[Father Ruh stands between two unidentified individuals in front of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church.]

Mountain Road, Manitoba.

On the occasion of the consecration of the land for the new church. ?Father Ruh in vestments in the centre of the photo, during the consecration of the site of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

Rectangular tin plate depicting the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, designed and built by Father Ruh between 1925 and 1929. The photo is trimmed with gilt and bordered with a red, green, black, and white motif.

Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

"MASS AT NEW UKRAINIAN GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH WINNIPEGOSIS SEP 22, 1929"

The parish and others gathered in front of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Ascension. Standing in the centre of the crowd in the third row from the rear is Mary Harasymchuk who was to marry Mike Yanchynski in Mountain Road in October of 1929.

Winnipegosis, Manitoba

Joe Stutt of St. John the Baptist Parish, in his role as Jesus in The Passion Play which was written and directed by Father Ruh and performed throughout local communities to raise money to continue construction of the new church which was rededicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1952 as the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The location is possibly Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Photo postcard of a celebration at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church. A large number of cars are parked along the pasture fence where once the horses were tied.

Mountain Road, Manitoba.