Vegreville egg

The Vegreville egg is a monumental pysanka in Vegreville, Alberta, created by Paul Maxym Sembaliuk as a tribute to the region’s strong Ukrainian Canadian heritage and the early Ukrainian settlements east of Edmonton. Commissioned by the town and linked to the 1975 centennial of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to secure funding, it became a major local landmark. Its anodized aluminum skin, built from geometric panels over a framework, translated traditional folk design into a large modern form. With computer-aided geometric modeling developed by Ronald Resch’s team and Robert McDermott, it became the first physical structure designed entirely with such software.

Alberta · Canada