William (Bill) Armstrong's photos with the keyword: St. John's

St. John's (Billimun) church, the third on this site, opened in 1928. The Billimun ares was settled by Catholics who has moved from Germany to Russia, in what is now Ukraine, and then immigrated to Canada.

St. John's School, a provincial historic site located south of Leader, Saskatchewan. It opened in 1924 as a Lutheran parochial school, the only one operated by the Missouri Synod in the province. It became a separate school in 1942 and closed in 1965.

Another perspective on a small chapel located on a plot of land that also includes a cemetery and a one-room school. This image was taken near the end of a hot day in mid-August.

A tiny chapel, with just three rows of pews on each side of a centre aisle, on a warm evening in August. A school, cemetery and the chapel occupy a plot of land surrounded by cultivated fields, south of Leader, Saskatchewan.

This is the third church built on a hillside, surrounded by farmland, and with a cemetery located behind the building. The church was built by settlers who came from what is now Ukraine, as religious intolerance grew following the Russian Revoluition.

A little church located next to a cemetery and an historic one-room school, south of Leader, SK. Don’t use this image on websites, blogs or other media without explicit permission. Copyright William Armstrong. 2018

I've hear estimates that this church can hold from eight to 12 people. Whatever the number might be, this is a tiny church. Do not use this image without permission.