The West Reserve was a block settlement plot of land in Manitoba set aside by the Government of Canada exclusively for settlement by Russian Mennonite settlers in 1875.
11-764: Today, the former West Reserve exists in what is now the Rural Municipalities of Rhineland and Stanley , in the Pembina Valley Region . After signing Treaty 1 with the Anishinabe and Swampy Cree First Nations, the Canadian government sent William Hespeler to recruit Mennonite farmers to the region. In 1873, Mennonite delegates from the Russian Empire (David Klassen, Jacob Peters, Heinrich Wiebe, and Cornelius Toews) visited
22-406: A population less than 1,000 to amalgamate with one or more neighbouring municipalities by 2015. The Government of Manitoba initiated the amalgamations for municipalities to meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 to incorporate a municipality. The original RM of Rhineland was incorporated as a rural municipality on February 14, 1880, along with the neighbouring RM of Douglas , which
33-547: A population of 5,945 as of the 2016 Canada Census . The average age in the municipality is 31. It surrounds, but does not include, the Town of Altona . The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 2015, via the amalgamation of the Rural Municipality of Rhineland and the towns of Gretna and Plum Coulee . It was formed as a requirement of The Municipal Amalgamations Act , which required municipalities with
44-420: The 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Rhineland had a population of 5,819 living in 1,641 of its 1,748 total private dwellings, a change of -2.1% from its 2016 population of 5,945. With a land area of 958.48 km (370.07 sq mi), it had a population density of 6.1/km (15.7/sq mi) in 2021. Rosenfeld, Manitoba Rosenfeld is a local urban district within
55-454: The Rural Municipality of Rhineland in the Canadian province of Manitoba . It is recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada . Rosenfeld was founded as a train station in 1882. It achieved unincorporated village status in 1949 and then local urban district status in 1996. As a designated place in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rosenfeld had
66-729: The Russian Mennonites. This land became known as the West Reserve. Many of the Mennonite settlers of the West Reserve stayed at Fort Dufferin before venturing out to establish villages in the reserve. In 1878, more than 200 Bergthal Mennonites relocated to the more fertile region of the West Reserve, and later immigrants moved directly to the region from Russia. These settlers established more than 70 villages, many of which still remain today, including Altona , Neubergthal , Reinland , Sommerfeld , and many others. One of
77-663: The area and agreed to a Privilegium outlining religious freedom, military exemption, and land. This land became known as the East Reserve , because it was east of the Red River . After two years, however, it was determined that the land of East Reserve was limited and unsuitable for farming, so a second larger reserve on the west side of the Red River was established by the Canadian government in 1875. A year later, an Order-in-Council set this land aside for exclusive use by
88-453: The earliest villages was Blumenort, situated west of the present-day local urban district of the same name . Mennonites lived in street villages called Strassendorfs , and built housebarns , many of which still exist today in the remaining villages. Through the open field system , the land around each village was divided into long, narrow strips for farming, which eventually proved to be an inefficient system for grain farming . Each village
99-721: Was absorbed into Rhineland in February 1891. In 1882, the community of Rosenfeld was founded in the RM as a CPR station. Though becoming an unincorporated village in 1949, it was later turned into a Local Urban District in Rhineland in 1996 with the rewriting of the Manitoba Municipal Act , and exists as an LUD to this day. Rhineland takes its name after a district in the Rhine valley in western Germany . In
110-477: Was governed by a Schulz, or mayor, and the entire West Reserve was governed by an Oberschulz. This system of governance ended with the establishment of Rural Municipalities . In 1897, the area was visited by Russian prince and anarchist Peter Kropotkin , who praised the local Mennonites for their industriousness and communal lifestyle. By 1924, the open field system and many villages of the West Reserve had been abandoned, though 17 still existed in 1960. A plaque
121-458: Was later erected in Rosenfeld , in the Rural Municipality of Rhineland , commemorating the West Reserve. Next to it, a fieldstone cairn was dedicated on August 2, 1970, in commemoration of the pioneers of the modern Rosenfeld area. Municipality of Rhineland The Municipality of Rhineland is a rural municipality (RM) in the Pembina Valley Region of Manitoba . The RM had
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