Philip Ruh (1883-1962)

Cleric, architect.

Born in Lixheim on the Franco-German border, on 6 August 1883, he studied with the Oblates in Holland and joined the order there. He was sent to the Ukraine to learn the language and then to Canada as a missionary to the Ukrainians in 1911. He designed and built a huge church at Mountain Road in the Riding Mountains in 1924, then another at Portage la Prairie 1926-30, adn another at Cook’s Creek, which was begun in 1930 and not completed until 1952. As well, he designed over 50 other churches across the prairies. Ruh was famous for not only designing his churches, but for contracting the construction and raising the funds himself.

He died on 24 October 1962.

More information:

Misioner i budivnychyi (Missionary and Architect) by Philip Ruh, 1960.

Pioneers of Manitoba by Robert Harvey (1970).

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Profile revised: 18 October 2008

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