Photostory #186: A Church in the Badlands

Photographers
Gar Lunney
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
December 2, 1958
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Situated in central Alberta, the church is eleven miles westwards from Drumheller on the fossil-rich Dinosaur Trail. Here, where the prehistoric site evokes a mood of reverence and the hand of the creator lies heavily over the hoodoo-studded landscape, men come to reflect on the mysteries of creation.