Baldur

The town of Baldur is in the rural municipality of Argyle, to the northeast of Killarney. The town is named after a Norse God as was suggested by one of the areas first Icelandic settlers, Sigurdur Christopherson. The name was favored ahead of other suggestions, such as that from Mr. Lehorn, a railway official who wanted it to be called Chesterfield, after Jesse Chester. 
The town like many other on the prairies was formed around the arrival of the railway in the area in 1890 and in the first decade its population grew to 400 inhabitants. 
Today the town is a small village and driving through it the unfamiliar is struck by the town's churches, which tell a story of the its multi-ethnic and -religious past.

It was snowing in Baldur when I visited on the first day of summer, according to the old Norse calendar.

St. Mark's Anglican church in Baldur
Built in 1898

Baldur United Church
Built in 1904

Baldur Immanuel Lutheran Church
Built in 1907

St. James Catholic Church
Built in 1953