It might not be a big enough community, but there are several thousand Mennonites in LaCrete, AB, and it is almost solely a Mennonite town. A smaller Steinbach with a mixture between old and new colony Mennonites that mainly speak Low German. Thanks for the article. You do not need to be born into a Mennonite family to be part of the Mennonite church. You can choose to become a part of the church. See point 7 above for some of the core beliefs.
Mennonite congregations would welcome a person seeking to live out their Christian faith. I have heard that whatever the male does, even if it is illegal, the wife is not to say anything to him or anybody else about it.
Can you please comment on this? They teach that only men can be ordained as church leaders and that husbands are expected to take leadership in the family. This does not mean that women are not respected. Men and women are seen as having equal worth, and husbands and wives are taught to work together as a team. Mennonites are taught to obey the law, and if a woman ever found her husband doing something illegal, the church would support her, not her husband.
Does the Mennonite church have a symbol such as the Huguenots have a Huguenot cross, that one might use as a charm on a necklace or bracelet? Generally Mennonites do not place a lot of importance on visual symbols. The first settlement of Russian Mennonites was in the Steinbach area of Manitoba, in Next was in the Winkler area, starting in All my Canadian ancestors were early settlers here.
About a new area for homesteads opened up northwest of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and many from the Winkler area settled here. A few years later before another area south of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, drew many Mennonites. Both my parents grew up there. I believe little if any Russian immigration occurred after the s until the mid s, with people escaping the hardships after the Russian Revolution.
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Barb Draper Editorial assistant. There are several varieties of Mennonite and Amish groups in Canada. Although the Chortitza settlement Old Colony was much smaller than the Molotschna settlement, it furnished almost half of the emigrants; they were unwilling to accept a compulsory alternative service program and objected to the Russification inaugurated by the Russian government.
The reasons for this mass migration were the threat of complete disintegration of the religious, cultural, and economic way of life of the Mennonites. A much larger number would have escaped, had not the Second World War intervened. During the German occupation of Ukraine in some 35, were evacuated by the German army to be resettled in the Vistula area Warthegau where they had come from some years ago. Because of the outcome of the war, nearly two thirds were forcibly repatriated by the Russian army in , while some 12, found their way to Canada and South America.
All the Mennonites of Prussia and Poland fled in when the Russian army approached. A large number of the Danzig and Prussian and some of the Galician Mennonites migrated to Uruguay and Canada between and Of the early Mennonite immigrants, few came to Alberta directly.
The first major group of Mennonite settlers originated in Ontario. In , Jacob Y. Shantz of Berlin, Ontario Kitchener selected Didsbury, 80 km north of Calgary, as a suitable location for a new Mennonite settlement, and in the following year 34 Waterloo County residents established a colony in the area. Other settlers came from northern Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan. After , Mennonite churches were established by settlers from Iowa and Nebraska near Tofield. The Duchess Mennonite Church, km east of Calgary, was established by settlers from eastern Pennsylvania.
The majority of the settlers, however, came to the Didsbury area after World War I as part of the Mennonite migration from the Soviet Union in Other Mennonite groups settled in Coaldale, Linden, and Rosedale. The settlement at La Crete grew to a membership of by , with additions of dissatisfied families coming from Mexico. Re-migration from Mexico and Bolivia brought Mennonites to northern and southern Alberta in the s. The total Mennonite population of Alberta in was 22, In , the largest urban concentration of Mennonites was located in Winnipeg 20, making it one of the largest Mennonite cities in the world.
Library and Archives Canada holds other records pertaining to Mennonite and Amish immigrants to Canada. Consult Collection Search using keywords such as a surname or the name of an organization. In addition to English and German, 45 Canadian congregations worship in 14 additional languages.
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