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PRPC0185

Father Ruh stands in his slippers, wearing his Persian lamb hat, outside the rectory, the home he shared in Cook’s Creek with Mike, Mary, and Lawrence Yanchynski for twenty years until they built their own home nearby, in the fifties.

Cook's Creek, Manitoba.

PRPC0196

Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church was built from lumber salvaged from the old St. John the Baptist Church in Cook’s Creek, later known as the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Father Ruh served both churches, travelling from his home in Cook’s Creek the ten miles to Cloverleaf to serve the faithful there.

Cloverleaf, Manitoba.

PRPC0198

St. John the Baptist Church in Cook’s Creek, Manitoba with its pastor, the Reverend Canon Father Philip Ruh, OMI. St. John the Baptist Church was designed by Father Ruh and begun in 1930. The portrait of Father Ruh, inset, was taken at the time he was elevated to the rank of Monsignor, December 14, 1941.

Cook's Creek, Manitoba.

PRPC0199

A view towards the north and the unfurnished bell tower of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church. The bell tower was completed after Father Ruh’s death by Mike Yanchynski and Mike Sawchuk.

July 7, 1948, Cook's Creek, Manitoba.

PRPC0205

A view from the south of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church which was rededicated in 1952 to the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Church of the Immaculate Conception. The building and property in the foreground were purchased by Mike and Mary Yanchynski in 1938. They built themselves a new home there in the fifties, after electricity came to the area.

Cook's Creek, Manitoba.

PRPC0206

The interior of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, without carpet and showing early stages of artistic embellishment of the central dome.

Cook's Creek, Manitoba.

PRPC0207

St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, designed by Father Ruh in 1924 and built entirely of wood within eleven months, possessed three galleries. The omniscient Eye of God watches from on high, above the main altar. The church was struck by lightning in 1966 and burned to the ground.

Mountain Road, Manitoba.

PRPC0210

A view from the southwest of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, rededicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1954 as the Church of the Immaculate Conception. The bell tower on the left was completed by Mike Yanchynski and Mike Sawchuk in the years following Father Ruh’s death in 1962.

Cook's Creek, Manitoba.

PRPC0211

Photo postcard of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, rededicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1954 as the Church of the Immaculate Conception. This was Father Ruh’s home parish for thirty-two years. View from the west.

Cook's Creek, Manitoba.

PRPC0212

A view from the northwest of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, rededicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1954 and named the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The bell tower, on the left, houses three bells which arrived from Europe more than thirty years before the completion of the tower.

Cook's Creek, Manitoba.

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