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Old Posted Sep 30, 2017, 6:36 PM
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Alberta Views ran a piece a couple months back on the status of Ukrainian culture in Alberta. The article posits that the history of Ukrainians in Alberta has been whitewashed, and that Ukrainian-Canadians has been positioned as the "default prairie ethnic."

The most interesting part of the article is the following:

"In August 2012 the ancestral house of former Alberta premier Ed Stelmach, built by his grandparents in 1915, was moved from its moorings on the original quarter-section near Andrew to the Heritage Village. Together with other agricultural mementoes, such as a pigsty, granaries, market square and roadside shrine, the Stelmach house invites visitors to marvel at how far settlers have come: “From untouched bush, settlers carved out farms, and soon turned their attention to building their communities.”

The implication is that, prior to the prodigious investment of our labour, the land had been useless, unproductive and uninhabited. Asserting since the 1970s the deep belonging we felt to our place on the prairie that was neither English nor French, we had stepped up as exemplars of and participants in multiculturalism, having earned our right to the status of a “founding people” here thanks to our sweat, toil and tears on the land."

https://albertaviews.ca/babas-other-children/

If you took the above as true (arguable), you might say that the default prairie style is "Ukrainian." It isn't, therefore, distinguishable from other settler architecture except for those rare flourishes (eg. the onion domes).
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