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First Communion Dinner

Black and white photograph of about 40 children sitting around a long table having a meal. Boys are dressed in dark suits, girls in mostly white dresses. Standing in the background of the hall are men and women, with a priest and two nuns.

Title: First Communion Dinner – July 27, 1952

Photographer: Duke Studios

Museum of Northern History Collection

Religion and cultural traditions were strong in the many ethnic communities that made up Kirkland Lake in the 1950s. Ukrainian Catholic children are pictured here at their First Communion Dinner at the Ukrainian Hall.