Sacred Heart Church, Sioux Lookout, ON

The early history of Sacred Heart Parish takes place in a community of where there is no electricity, or running water, no phones, no cars, no sidewalks, only a couple of stores, a restaurant, a post office; all on dirt roads. From 1906 to 1910 Fr. O’Dwyer travelled from Winnipeg occasionally to celebrate Mass in Sioux Lookout. Them in 1910 the parish in Kenora began to serve Sioux Lookout as a mission and Fr. O’Dwyer came once a month to offer Mass in the restaurant. In 1912 a small group of Catholics built Sacred Heart Church, a structure that measured 50 by 34 ft.