Firefighters who battled a wind-fanned grass fire that spread to the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village east of Edmonton managed to save the historic structures at the open-air museum, but provincial officials say the visitor centre buildings were lost.
Alberta Arts, Culture and Status of Women Minister Tanya Fir, as well as MLA Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk, whose constituency takes in the village, say in a statement that the visitor centre buildings “housed many irreplaceable artifacts that told the stories of generations of Ukrainian Albertans.”
