Canadian Gardening: Canada Through Your Eyes, 1 by Lilypon

Lilypon wrote:
Jo where are your pics??? :)

Here's a few more of mine

Gravelbourg

"Founded as an outpost of French Canada by a priest from Quebec via New York City, settled in part by Franco Americans, endowed in the earliest beginnings with institutions whose architecture and aims strove for the grand scale, there is even today something uncommon about Gravelbourg. Certainly it cuts an uncommon outline on the prairie horizon where earth and sky unite, dissolve and disappear into infinity, as they do nowhere else in the world."

Gravelbourg has been dubbed the ‘Cultural Gem of Saskatchewan’. Thanks to its remarkable bilingual heritage, regal architecture and rich culture, Gravelbourg is A Touch of Europe on the Prairies.

The town was for many years the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic diocese of Gravelbourg and there was a francophone bishop in residence. Pope John Paul II, however, suppressed the diocese in 1998. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption was at that time designated a "co-cathedral" of the archdiocese of Regina although in practical terms this has little real meaning.

Population of Gravelbourg 1,089

And this is the church that one of their early priests painted all the murals and pictures within.

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