By Jennifer Grainger, https://jennifergrainger.blogspot.com/
Normally, if you want to see the pioneer buildings constructed by our ancestors, you have to visit a museum like Fanshawe Pioneer Village. That’s because most of our early buildings were torn down and replaced with larger, grander ones as soon as it was practical to do so. If not demolished, the earliest buildings were usually modernized to include electricity, plumbing, openable windows, and insulation. Nobody likes privations.
That’s why it’s fascinating to enter one of those rare pioneer structures that’s almost completely unchanged. I’m talking about St. Mary’s, Napier...
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