One of the most common avenues to approaching the study of religious architecture is to divide it according to denomination. Through the connecting tissues of shared religious doctrine, otherwise distant structures can be drawn together to become part of a larger fabric. In the search for commonalities though, differences sometimes can be overlooked. During the pioneer period of the early 20th century, Saskatchewan was inundated with multiple waves of immigration. Minority immigrant narrat...

Kristie Dubé

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Members of minority groups must negotiate and balance their religious, ethnic, and cultural identities in our increasingly diverse nation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints offers a case study of an often-overlooked minority faith in Canada. I propose a study of the built environment in predominantly Mormon towns in southern Alberta, where they first permanently settled in 1887, with a focus on cemeteries and architectural expressions of identity. Like religious archi...

Brooke Kathleen Brassard

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The province of Ontario is by no means short of ecclesiastical jewels thanks to the tenacity and fervour of nineteenth-century architects. Amongst the list of prolific architects working in this century though, there is a name that has frequently been omitted: Gordon W. Lloyd’s (1832-1904). Lloyd was born and trained in Britain, established an architectural office in Detroit, MI, and lived across the Detroit River in Windsor, ON. Although Lloyd designed various domestic, commercial and ins...

Loryssa Quattrociocchi

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