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This past summer the Negrych Pioneer Homestead, located near Gilbert Plains Manitoba, became one of this province's newest national historic sites. At a ceremony held on August 1st a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque was unveiled at the Wasyl and Anna Negrych homestead, believed to be the most complete and best-preserved Ukrainian farmstead in Canada. Among its 10 buildings are unique or extremely rare features, including the only Canadian example of a longshingle Carpathian roof and in the bunkhouse; a rare, fully preserved working peech - the massive, logand-clay cook stove that was once the heart of every Ukrainian home. The Homestead also boasts the oldest known Ukrainian dwelling which rests on its original site. Traversing the property is the still-visible Colonization Trail - a route originally cut by Aboriginal people and later used by Ukrainian...