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The first Basilian missionaries*to Canada were led by Father Platonid Filias, who established the first mission at Beaver Lake. The group included: Father Sozont Dydyk, who was assigned to Rabbit Hill Father Antin Strotskyi, who served the Star settlement Brother Yeremiia Yanishevskyi The Basilians were accompanied by four Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate: Sister Ambrozyia Lenkevych, Sister Izydora Shypovska, Sister Emiliia Klapoushok and Sister Taida Vrublievska. The missionaries left L’viv on October 6, 1902. They travelled to Hamburg by rail, and set sail for New York on the Moltke on October 10. From New York, they took a train to Montreal. There they were met by Oblate Father Albert Lacombe, who arranged their rail journey across Canada. The group arrived at Strathcona on October 31, 1902. |
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Basilians, 1905 Photo taken before Father Filias' departure for Ukraine. Sitting l-r: Fathers Atanazii Fylypiv, Pliatonyd Filias, Sozont Dydyk. Standing l-r: Brothers Teodozyi Krul' and Yremiia Yanishevsky. (BFM collection PH 003155) |
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| * The spellings used here are transliterations of the missionaries' Ukrainian names, as they were recorded in the Basilian chronicle kept by Father Filias. |
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