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- located on a power pole at the corner of Commercial and Glasgow Ave.

The settlers who came from Eastern Europe, were ethnically diverse due to the shifting of the borders of Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Austria, and little Duchies.

In the writings of Thomas McNutt in the Saltcoats History Book, Roots and Branches of his early days of helping settlers - “ In the spring of 1897, I received a wire from the land development of Manitoba and The Northwestern Railway re finding land for a large settlement of Europeans. A few weeks later several carloads of Galicians and Bukowinans arrived. I noticed that as soon as the train stopped the women made a rush for the lake with bundles of dirty laundry and started washing vigorously”.

Over the following decades, many waves of Ukrainian people came seeking a chance to have land of their own – a new homeland.

The sunflower is the National flower of modern-day Ukraine.