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Burning of Ukrainian Catholic Church, 1967

A coloured photograph showing large orange flames burning down a church on a snowy day. Mountains are in the background.

Revelstoke Museum and Archives photograph 3017.

St. Ann’s Catholic Church was built at the Mount Cartier settlement in 1921. It was dynamited in October of 1966 by unknown persons and was burned down the following year to clear the land for the coming reservoir.