History
The community was named for Boian, the Romanian village in Bukovina, from where the settlers originated. [3] In the fall of 1903, the community built a Romanian Orthodox Church, named by locals like the one in their homeland, St Mary Orthodox Church. It was completed in the summer of 1905. By the year 1909, the need of a local school became more accentuated, and a small building was constructed in 1910, and later a three room school was built from stone and was the largest rural school in Alberta.
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The Romanians of Boian , did not have enough farm land to further homestead, so many of the first generation went on to form new Romanian communities in Pierceland, Saskatchewan and Manning, Alberta.
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