Wostok
hamlet in Alberta, Canada
Wostok (Russian: Восток) is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Lamont County. It is located on Range Road 173, approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Highway 45 and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of Highway 29. Lamont is approximately 23 kilometres (14 mi) southwest of Wostok.
Toponymy
Wostok, named for the Russian word for east ("восток"), was named by the predominantly Slavic settlers who established the community in the 1890s.
History
19th century
Beginning in 1892, Wostok was settled by Slavic immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian provinces of Galicia and Bukovina, who arrived in the region to farm. The earliest settlers were predominantly ethnic Ukrainians or Poles.
In 1897, locals successfully petitioned the Russian Orthodox Mission in San Francisco to assign clergy to the area. The first Orthodox Divine Liturgy held in Canada subsequently occurred in Wostok on July 18, 1897, with over 300 homesteaders from surrounding areas attending the community to participate.
A post office was established under the name Wostok in January 1899 by Theodore Nemirsky, who thus became Canada's first Ukrainian postmaster. Later that year, residents built a permanent Orthodox church building, Holy Trinity Russo-Orthodox Church.
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