In the spring of 1955, former parishioners of Father Ruh, living by this time in southern Ontario, gathered for several teas to raise funds for what was to be his final major project, the Calvary and Grotto in Honour of Our Lady of Lourdes, in Cook’s Creek, Manitoba. Bishop Isidore Borecki stands in the centre of the photo and Father Ruh sits to his right.

St. Catharines, Ontario.

Blueprint of Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. Nykolas at Kenora, Ontario.

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church was designed by Father Ruh in 1956 and completed by 1958.

Kenora, Ontario.

Ukrainian typescript under the photo on the album page reads: "The City of Toronto grandly greets Father Monsignor Ruh." Presentation to Father Ruh during the fundraising before his departure for Europe to visit his family.

Toronto, Ontario.

Ukrainian typescript under the photo on the album page reads: "The work and merits of the missionary father are underlined in the key address." Father Ruh is seated the second from the right, with Bishop Isidore Borecky left of him, during the banquet given in his honour before his departure for Europe to visit his family.

Toronto, Ontario.

Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk is seated in the centre of the photo with students and Ukrainian parliamentarians in Ottawa, Ontario, November 16, 1957. The nine individuals with Metropolitan Hermaniuk have all signed their names on the back of the photo. Date and location have been added to the greeting, written in ink, in Ukrainian, on the back. Print is from MMHP Album 2, no. 46.

Mary Botchar in Toronto. Father Ruh is seated, with Mary Botchar, a former parishioner from Cook’s Creek and two unidentified individuals.

Toronto, Ontario.

Ukrainian typescript under the photo on the album page reads: "Children present greetings and flowers." Father Ruh, on the right, accepts a presentation from the children of the Ukrainian Catholic community in the Toronto area before his departure for Europe to visit his family.

Toronto, Ontario.