High Prairie Public Library, High Prairie, AB, Canada, 2022

This small town with an unusual looking library is in the heart of the Peace River Valley in Canada's High Prairie. Canada has the third largest number of Ukrainians in the world, after Russia and Ukraine itself. Most have settled into the prairies of western Canada including this part of Alberta. All the librarians I spoke with in this region were descendants of the last large wave of refugees fleeing Ukraine over 100 years ago. They have now been told to prepare their libraries for another big surge of Ukrainians fleeing Putin's war.