October 24, 2008

Brandon, Riding Mountain Park, Dauphin, Swan River

Update when I get home.

NOTE: I am taking hundreds of photos, but as mentioned earlier, am traveling with an old Japanese Windows ME laptop that cannot load contemporary Nikon or Canon software (am carrying several cameras :-)

Dauphin, Manitoba -- nice town with some gorgeous buildings.

Highway 10 heading north from Dauphin in Manitoba lined with Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic churches, many nearly in ruins, along with cemeteries.

Ukraina, Manitoba -- a dead village several kilometers east of Highway 10 named after the home country of many early settlers, with a neglected, rotting church, open to the elements. I felt sadness, shame, and resignation... But there is nobody left, so who is to blame?

I got that feeling a lot along the 10 north in Manitoba.... Tough country that it appears a lot of people gave up on....

Ethelbert, Manitoba -- dueling Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic churches at opposite ends of town :-).

Transition from prairies to forest comes much faster than equivalent central Saskatchewan latitudes.

Posted by Paul at October 24, 2008 08:00 PM