In 1896, some of the pioneers, led by Wasyl Ksionzyk, settled in the Dauphin area of Manitoba and established the third Ukrainian settlement in Canada. They called their settlement of fifteen homesteads `Terebowla' after the village from which many of them had come.

In order to address their spiritual needs, Wasyl Ksionzyk, following the advice of Dr. Oleskiw, contacted a Ukrainian Catholic priest, Reverend Nestor Dmytriw, in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, and asked him to visit the settlement. In April, 1897, Reverend Dmytriw did so. While visiting, he consecrated a rough cross built of poplar logs which the settlers had erected to commemorate the freedom they had attained on immigrating to Canada. This `Cross of Freedom' was the first such cross erected in Canada.

In September, 1897, Wasyl Ksionzyk took Father Dmytriw to visit another group of Ukrainian pioneers who had settled twenty-two miles northwest of Terebowla. These settlers were primarily from Volkovets in the Borchiw region of Ukraine and so named their settlement Volkivtsi. It is now called Mink River. Upon hearing that Father Dmytriw was coming, the settlers formed a church committee. The committee decided to establish a cemetery on Ivan Perepeluk's land and prepare an outdoor altar on the site so that Father Dmytriw could conduct services. The following year, Ivan Perepeluk and a neighbour, Yuri lvasiuk, erected a small chapel of poplar logs where the altar had stood.

In 1902, a much larger section covered by a shingled roof was added to the chapel and Reverend Wasyl Zholdak consecrated the new church as St. Michael's Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. That winter a stove was added for heating and the interior completed. Although there was no iconastas, each family donated an icon for decoration and a choir loft was built above the front door.

The church survived for many years without a resident priest so the parishioners conducted their own services. Ivan Perepeluk served as church elder, Yuri Ivasiuk as president of the church committee and Petro Kokolsky as treasurer. Except for the deacon, Yakrv Dutka, all of the members of the congregation were illiterate. At one time the congregation numbered over thirty families, but the church was eventually abandoned as the pioneers passed away and their sons and daughters left the unproductive land.

In 1966, the Cross of Freedom at Terebowla, which had decayed and collapsed, was replaced by a seven foot tall, grey granite cross. Later St. Michael's church was moved from Ivan Perepeluk's farm in Volkivtsi to Terebowla, as was Wasyl Ksionzyk's white thatched cottage. The small, log Terebowla school, which was built between 1899 and 1901, was also relocated to the site. Annually, on the Sunday of the Canadian National Ukrainian Festival held on the Civic Holiday long weekend in August, crowds gather at the site to commemorate the achievements of the early Ukrainian pioneers and visit St. Michael's, the oldest Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Canada.