January archives snapshot

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• History

Inside the church of the Trappist Monastery at St. Norbert that the Franciscan friars in Winnipeg visited in the 1960s.

The Trappists moved to a new building by 1978. In 1983, the vacated church shown in the above picture and residential wing of the monastery was destroyed by a fire.

Below is an aerial view of the current site taken in August 2019. Photograph courtesy of George Penner of the Manitoba Historical Society.