A block settlement (or bloc settlement) is a particular type of land distribution which allows settlers with the same ethnicity to form small colonies. This settlement type was used throughout western Canada between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some were planned and others were spontaneously created by the settlers themselves. As a legacy of the block settlements, the three Prairie Provinces have several regions where ancestries other than British are the largest, unlike the norm in surrounding regions.
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The policy of planned blocks was pursued primarily by Clifford Sifton during his time as Interior Minister of Canada. It was essentially a compromise position. Some politicians wanted all ethnic groups to be scattered evenly though the new lands to ensure they would quickly assimilate to Anglo-Canadian culture, while others did not want to live near "foreign" immigrants (as opposed to British immigrants who were not considered foreign) and demanded that they be segregated. At the time, Canada was receiving large numbers of non-British, non-French, immigrants for the first time, especially Italians, Germans, Scandinavians, and Ukrainians. The newcomers themselves wanted to settle as close as possible to people with a familiar language and similar customs. The government did not want the West to be fragmented into a few large homogeneous ethnic blocks, however. So several smaller colonies were set up where particular ethnic groups could settle, but these were spaced across the country.[1][2]
Hutterites are German-speaking Anabaptists who live in communal agricultural colonies. They have 188 colonies in Alberta, 117 in Manitoba, 72 in Saskatchewan and 3 in British Columbia. These Canadian colonies began with 18 colonies founded in 1919.[4][5] Map
In Saskatchewan Doukhobors, numbering 7,500, settled in three blocks in the North-West Territories (now in Saskatchewan) from 1899 to 1918. They established 61 communal villages on 773,400 acres (3,130 km2).[16] (Map)
North Colony (1899-1918) contained 69,000 acres (280 km2) in the Pelly-Arran area settled by 2,400 settlers in 20 communal villages.(Map)
South Colony (1899-1918) contained 215,010 acres (870.1 km2) in the Canora, Veregin and Kamsack area settled by 3,500 settlers in 30 communal villages. (Map)
Good Spirit Lake Annex (1899-1918) contained 168,930 acres (683.6 km2) in the Good Spirit Lake and Buchanan area settled by 1,000 settlers in 8 communal villages. (Map)
Saskatchewan Colony (1899-1918) contained 324,800 acres (1,314 km2) in the Langham, Blaine Lake area settled by 1,500 settlers in 15 communal villages. (Map)
Sheho and Insinger (1909-1926) contained 1,280 acres (5.2 km2). (Map)
Kelvinton, Saskatchewan (1921-1938) was west of Kelvinton. (Map)
British Columbia (1908-1938) (Map)
Grand Forks-Castlegar-Slocan Valley (1909-1938) was an area of 19,000 acres (77 km2) settled by 8,000 Doukhobors from Saskatchewan in 74 communal villages. (Map)
Rat River settlement (Saint Labre, Saint Pierre Jolys, Saint-Malo)
Red River settlement (Saint Boniface, Saint Vital, Saint Norbert, Saint Germain, Cartier, La Salle, Saint Adolphe, Glenlea, Sainte Agathe, Tourond, Aubigny, Dufrost, Saint Jean Baptiste, Sainte Elizabeth, Saint Joseph, Letellier)
Seine River settlement (Dufresne, Giroux, Ile des Chênes, La Broquerie, Lorette, Marchand, Richer, Saint Raymond, Sainte Anne des Chênes, Sainte Genevieve)
Whitehorse plain settlement (Elie, Fannystelle, Saint Eustache, Saint François Xavier, Saint Laurent, Saint Ambroise)
German settlement began in the prairie provinces in the 1890s and continued until the 1920s during the homesteading period. Some also came to the region after the end of World War II. Canadians of German ethnicity remain numerous in the prairie provinces. Most of these settlers were Catholics and Lutherans, with minorities of Mennonites and Baptists.
St. Peter's Colony in Saskatchewan.[29] founded in 1903 in Saskatchewan was 4,662 square kilometres (1,800 square miles) in size.[30] It included 50 townships; townships 35 to 40, ranges 18 to 22, and townships 37 to 41, ranges 23 to 26 of the Dominion Land Survey west of the 2nd Meridian.[31] 8,000 settlers had arrived in the colony by 1910[32] and by 1930 it was home to 18,000 Roman Catholics. Most were German Catholics.[33] Between 1903 and 1925 parishes were established at
Some French settlements were founded by Francophone Métis from the Red River settlement in Manitoba. Many began as Métis hivernants buffalo hunting camps from the 1840s to the 1870s.[34][35]
Vatnabyggd was an Icelandic settlement of about 2,000 square kilometres in Saskatchewan south of Fishing Lake and the Quill Lakes. By 1911 it had attracted over 1,600 Icelanders.[36][37] Vatnabyggd included the settlements of Kristnes, Saskatchewan (1903), Dafoe (1905), Kandahar (1905), Wynyard (1904), Mozart (1903), Elfros (1903), Leslie (1907), Holar, Saskatchewan (1905), Mount Hecla, Saskatchewan (1904) and Foam Lake (1892). (Map)
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^Feldman, Mottie (January 2002). "Sonnenfeld Colony: A Piece of Saskatchewan History". Retrieved 18 May 2016.
^Feldman, Mottie (January 2002). "Pioneer Stories from Sonnenfeld Colony". Retrieved 18 May 2016.
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^"A map of the Ukrainian bloc settlement of east central Alberta". University of Alberta. 2007. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
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Further reading
Alan Anderson, "Ethnic Bloc Settlements,"
Paul Robert Magocsi, ed. Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples (1999)
External links
The Atlas of Saskatchewan provides a map of the entire province showing all major ethnic bloc settlements.
Government of Alberta's Heritage Department's page about the history of the Ukrainian settlements in East-Central Alberta
is a living history village 50 km east of Edmonton, Alberta which focuses on the experiences of Ukrainian immigrants and the block settlements.
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Not to be confused with Settlement blocs A block settlement or bloc settlement is a particular type of land distribution which allows settlers with the same ethnicity to form small colonies This settlement type was used throughout western Canada between the late 19th and early 20th centuries Some were planned and others were spontaneously created by the settlers themselves As a legacy of the block settlements the three Prairie Provinces have several regions where ancestries other than British are the largest unlike the norm in surrounding regions CPR land sales advertisement The policy of planned blocks was pursued primarily by Clifford Sifton during his time as Interior Minister of Canada It was essentially a compromise position Some politicians wanted all ethnic groups to be scattered evenly though the new lands to ensure they would quickly assimilate to Anglo Canadian culture while others did not want to live near foreign immigrants as opposed to British immigrants who were not considered foreign and demanded that they be segregated At the time Canada was receiving large numbers of non British non French immigrants for the first time especially Italians Germans Scandinavians and Ukrainians The newcomers themselves wanted to settle as close as possible to people with a familiar language and similar customs The government did not want the West to be fragmented into a few large homogeneous ethnic blocks however So several smaller colonies were set up where particular ethnic groups could settle but these were spaced across the country 1 2 Contents American Anabaptist British Dutch Eastern European French German Indigenous Scandinavian See also ReferencesAmerican EditAfrican American Edit Further information Black Canadians and Freedmen s town Amber Valley Alberta Breton Alberta Maidstone Saskatchewan Happy Valley British Columbia Saltspring Island British Columbia Wildwood Alberta Mormon Edit Further information Mormon Corridor and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints in Canada Mormon temple in Cardston Alberta Michelsen Farmstead museum in Stirling Alberta Cardston founded in 1887 was the first Latter day Saint settlement in Alberta 3 Altorado Barnwell Bow Island Del Bonita Ensign Glenwood Hill Spring Jefferson Kimball Lundbreck Magrath Orton Pincher Creek Raley Raymond Seven Persons Stirling Taber Welling WoolfordAnabaptist Edit Oak Bluff Colony sign Hutterian Brethren Mennonite Reserve settlement on the Rat River in Manitoba 1881 Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach Manitoba Hutterite Edit Hutterites are German speaking Anabaptists who live in communal agricultural colonies They have 188 colonies in Alberta 117 in Manitoba 72 in Saskatchewan and 3 in British Columbia These Canadian colonies began with 18 colonies founded in 1919 4 5 Map Mennonite Edit The Manitoba government set aside the Mennonite East Reserve now in the Rural Municipality of Hanover and the Mennonite West Reserve now in the Rural Municipality of Rhineland and the Rural Municipality of Stanley for the new Russian Mennonite immigrants coming to the province beginning in 1874 6 Most spoke Mennonite Low German 7 Map Mennonite communities originally part of the East Reserve Manitoba include Steinbach Manitoba Kleefeld Manitoba Grunthal Manitoba Blumenort Manitoba Blumenhof Manitoba Friedensfeld Manitoba New Bothwell Manitoba then called Kronsthal Mitchell Manitoba then called Vollwerk Randolph Manitoba then called Chortitz Mennonite communities originally part of the West Reserve Manitoba include Schanzenfeld Manitoba Reinland Manitoba Hochfeld Manitoba Blumenfeld Manitoba Neubergthal Manitoba Altona Manitoba Gretna Manitoba Sommerfeld Manitoba South Blumenort Manitoba Reinfeld Manitoba Blumengart Manitoba Friedensruh Manitoba Chortitz Manitoba not to be confused with Chortitz Randolph East Reserve Osterwick Manitoba Mennonite communities originally part of the Scratching River Settlement Manitoba include Rosenort Manitoba Riverside Manitoba then called Rosenhof Saskatchewan settlements 8 Map Rosthern Saskatchewan 1891 1892 9 Eigenheim Laird Waldheim Tiefengrund Osler Saskatchewan Hague Saskatchewan 1895 9 Langham Dalmeny Borden Mennon Hepburn Herbert and Swift Current Saskatchewan 1904 9 Herschel Fiske Kindersley and Superb 1920s Hanley and Dundurn districts Early Alberta settlements began in La Crete Alberta and Didsbury Alberta 1901 9 10 Early British Columbia settlements began in Yarrow British Columbia and Abbotsford British Columbia 1911 9 11 British EditMeaning people coming directly from the United Kingdom not English speaking people from Ontario or Atlantic Canada Lloydminster Saskatchewan Alberta temperance colony Walhachin British Columbia Kelowna British Columbia British Canadian Edit Meaning settlers from Eastern Canada primarily Ontario and mostly of British and Irish origins Saskatoon temperance colony Dutch EditFurther information Dutch Canadian Neerlandia AlbertaEastern European Edit The Doukhobor prayer house in Veregin is a National Historic Site Kaposvar Church Hungarian Graves in Jewish cemetery at Lipton Colony Saskatchewan 1916 Jewish farmhouses in Bender Hamlet Manitoba 1921 Ashkenazi Edit See also Jewish Colonization Association and History of the Jews in Canada Many of the Jewish immigrants to Canada came from settlements in Eastern Europe including Austria Hungary and the Russian Empire later the Soviet Union Hirsch Saskatchewan Qu Appelle or Lipton Saskatchewan 1901 Cupar Saskatchewan 1901 Bender Hamlet or Narcisse Manitoba 1903 La Macaza Quebec 1904 Ste Sophie Quebec 1904 Sonnenfeld colony near the hamlet of Oungre Saskatchewan 1905 12 13 14 Edenbridge Saskatchewan 1906 also known as Yid n Bridge Jews Bridge 15 Trochu Alberta 1906 Rumsey Alberta 1906 Pine Ridge Manitoba 1907 Birds Hill Manitoba 1911 Camper Manitoba or New Hirsch Manitoba 1911 Eyre Saskatchewan 1910 Montefiore Saskatchewan 1911 Rosetown Saskatchewan 1911 near the town of the same name Doukhobor Edit Further information Doukhobor Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood and Freedomites In Saskatchewan Doukhobors numbering 7 500 settled in three blocks in the North West Territories now in Saskatchewan from 1899 to 1918 They established 61 communal villages on 773 400 acres 3 130 km2 16 Map North Colony 1899 1918 contained 69 000 acres 280 km2 in the Pelly Arran area settled by 2 400 settlers in 20 communal villages Map South Colony 1899 1918 contained 215 010 acres 870 1 km2 in the Canora Veregin and Kamsack area settled by 3 500 settlers in 30 communal villages Map Good Spirit Lake Annex 1899 1918 contained 168 930 acres 683 6 km2 in the Good Spirit Lake and Buchanan area settled by 1 000 settlers in 8 communal villages Map Saskatchewan Colony 1899 1918 contained 324 800 acres 1 314 km2 in the Langham Blaine Lake area settled by 1 500 settlers in 15 communal villages Map Sheho and Insinger 1909 1926 contained 1 280 acres 5 2 km2 Map Kylemore Saskatchewan 1918 1938 north of Fishing Lake Map Kelvinton Saskatchewan 1921 1938 was west of Kelvinton Map British Columbia 1908 1938 Map Grand Forks Castlegar Slocan Valley 1909 1938 was an area of 19 000 acres 77 km2 settled by 8 000 Doukhobors from Saskatchewan in 74 communal villages Map Brilliant British Columbia 1908 1938 on 2 700 acres 11 km2 included 6 communal villages Map Ootischenia British Columbia 1908 1938 on 2 700 acres 11 km2 included 22 communal villages Map Champion Creek British Columbia 1912 1938 on 920 acres 3 7 km2 included 5 communal villages Map Glade British Columbia 1911 1938 on 1 092 acres 4 42 km2 included 11 communal villages Map Shoreacres British Columbia 1912 1938 on 500 acres 2 0 km2 included 3 communal villages Map Pass Creek British Columbia 1909 1938 on 1 760 acres 7 1 km2 included 6 communal villages Map Winlaw British Columbia 1912 1938 on 837 acres 3 39 km2 included 4 communal villages Map Alberta Cowley Lundbreck Alberta 1915 1938 on 13 500 acres 55 km2 included 13 communal villages Map Arrowwood Shouldice Anastasia Alberta 1926 1945 Map Finnish Edit See also Finnish Canadian Thunder Bay Ontario New Finland Saskatchewan Turtle Lake Saskatchewan Sointula British Columbia Webster s Corners British Columbia Hungarian Edit See also Hungarian Canadians Esterhazy Saskatchewan Kaposvar Colony 1886 Kipling Saskatchewan Old Believers Edit See also Old Believers Plamondon Alberta Romanian Edit Boian Alberta Assiniboia Saskatchewan Ukrainian Edit See also Ukrainian Canadian and List of Canadian place names of Ukrainian origin Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village in Lamont County Alberta St George s Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral Saskatoon St Volodymyr s Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral Old Toronto Ukrainian language street signs alongside English ones in Hafford Saskatchewan Ukrainian settlements with approximate date of founding Map Edna Star Alberta 1892 Founded by the original Ukrainian Canadian pioneers Iwan Pylypow and Wasyl Eleniak this is the oldest and largest of the Ukrainian block settlements and was once considered the largest Ukrainian community in the world outside Eastern Europe It is now the world s largest eco museum called Kalyna Country which includes Sturgeon County Thorhild County the County of St Paul No 19 the County of Vermilion River the County of Two Hills No 21 the County of Minburn No 27 Beaver County Lamont County and Strathcona County and many of the neighbouring towns and cities 17 18 Map Manitoba settlements included Stuartburn Manitoba August 1896 Dauphin Manitoba September 1896 Interlake Manitoba June 1897 Shoal Lake Manitoba April 1899 and Whitemouth Manitoba 19 Saskatchewan settlements were in the Montmartre Candiac area 1895 96 the Yorkton Canora Preeceville area in eastern Saskatchewan the Rosthern Yellow Creek Cudworth area north of Saskatoon and the Radisson Hafford Whitkow area east of North Battleford 20 21 French EditThese include French Canadians from Quebec French Americans and Francophones from France Belgium and Switzerland See also Franco Manitoban Fransaskois Franco Albertan and Franco Columbian Cathedral in Gravelbourg Alberta The Bonnyville and St Paul area Bonnyville Cold Lake Fort Kent La Corey Lafond Mallaig Saint Lina Saint Vincent Therien Lac La Biche and Plamondon Alberta Sturgeon County and Lac Ste Anne County Alberta Specifically the communities of St Albert Morinville Legal Riviere Qui Barre Villeneuve Pickardville and around the shores of Lac Ste Anne and Lac La Nonne Smokey River bloc settlement Donnelly Falher Alberta Girouxville Guy Jean Cote Mac Lennan Marie Reine Saint Isidore Tangent British Columbia Maillardville British Columbia Terrace British Columbia Manitoba Rat River settlement Saint Labre Saint Pierre Jolys Saint Malo Red River settlement Saint Boniface Saint Vital Saint Norbert Saint Germain Cartier La Salle Saint Adolphe Glenlea Sainte Agathe Tourond Aubigny Dufrost Saint Jean Baptiste Sainte Elizabeth Saint Joseph Letellier Seine River settlement Dufresne Giroux Ile des Chenes La Broquerie Lorette Marchand Richer Saint Raymond Sainte Anne des Chenes Sainte Genevieve Whitehorse plain settlement Elie Fannystelle Saint Eustache Saint Francois Xavier Saint Laurent Saint Ambroise Saskatchewan Cantal Bellegarde settlement Alida Antler Bellegarde Cantal Redvers Storthoaks Wauchope Delmas bloc settlement Cochin Delmas Edam Jackfish Lake Vawn Duck Lake settlement Domremy Duck Lake Saint Isidore de Bellevue Saint Louis Gravelbourg bloc settlement 22 Gravelbourg Lafleche Mazenod Meyronne Leoville Debden bloc Bapaume Big River Debden Laventure Leoville Spiritwood Victoire Ponteix settlement Cadillac Lac Pelletier Pambrun Ponteix Vanguard Prud homme Vonda settlement Prud homme Saint Denis Vonda Willow Bunch bloc settlement Assiniboia Fife Lake Lisieux Little Woody Maxstone Rockglen Saint Victor Verwood Willow Bunch Wood mountain bloc Ferland Glentworth Fir mountain Wood mountain St Hubert SaskatchewanGerman EditSee also Canadians of German ethnicity German settlement began in the prairie provinces in the 1890s and continued until the 1920s during the homesteading period Some also came to the region after the end of World War II Canadians of German ethnicity remain numerous in the prairie provinces Most of these settlers were Catholics and Lutherans with minorities of Mennonites and Baptists Regina Saskatchewan and area Medicine Hat Alberta Dunmore Alberta Bruderheim Alberta Josephburg Alberta Hilda Alberta Schuler Alberta Hussar Alberta New Sarepta Alberta Rolly View Alberta Langenburg Saskatchewan and Hohenlohe 23 Pierceland Saskatchewan Paradise Hill Saskatchewan Leader Saskatchewan Burstall Saskatchewan Richmound Saskatchewan Eatonia Saskatchewan Strasbourg Saskatchewan New Elsass German Colony 23 Macklin Saskatchewan Lemberg Saskatchewan Neudorf Saskatchewan Heinsburg Alberta Lindbergh Alberta St Walburg Saskatchewan Goodsoil Saskatchewan Loon Lake Saskatchewan German colonies Edit St Joseph s Colony Katharinental was established from 1886 1904 in southern Saskatchewan 24 25 Davin Rastadt Kronau Vibank Odessa Kendall St Joseph s Colony Josephstal was established in 1905 in west central Saskatchewan 26 27 28 Villages in this Saskatchewan colony included Adanac Biggar Broadacres Cactus Lake Carmelheim Cavell Cosine Denzil Donegal Evesham Grosswerder Handel Kelfield Kerrobert Landis Leipzig Luseland Macklin Major Onward Pascal Phippen Primate Revenue Reward Salvador Scott Tramping Lake Unity Wilkie Wolfe The interior of St Peter s Cathedral in Muenster Saskatchewan was decorated by Berthold Imhoff St Peter s Colony in Saskatchewan 29 founded in 1903 in Saskatchewan was 4 662 square kilometres 1 800 square miles in size 30 It included 50 townships townships 35 to 40 ranges 18 to 22 and townships 37 to 41 ranges 23 to 26 of the Dominion Land Survey west of the 2nd Meridian 31 8 000 settlers had arrived in the colony by 1910 32 and by 1930 it was home to 18 000 Roman Catholics Most were German Catholics 33 Between 1903 and 1925 parishes were established at Leofeld Muenster Fulda Marysburg Annaheim Englefeld Watson Lake Lenore Bruno Humboldt Burr St Gregor Pilger St Benedict Dana Carmel Cudworth Middle Lake Peterson NaicamIndigenous EditMetis Edit Some French settlements were founded by Francophone Metis from the Red River settlement in Manitoba Many began as Metis hivernants buffalo hunting camps from the 1840s to the 1870s 34 35 Lebret Saskatchewan St Florent mission 1866 and Val Qu Appelle 1860s Touchwood Hills 1860s St Laurent Grandin Metis settlements 1868 1876 Wood Mountain Saskatchewan 1870s and Willow Bunch Saskatchewan Lac Pelletier Saskatchewan Vallee Ste Claire 1870s Cypress Hills Saskatchewan 1870s la Prairie Ronde near Dundurn Saskatchewan 1850s Frenchman Butte Saskatchewan 1880s Cochin Saskatchewan 1880s Delmas Saskatchewan 1880s St Lazare 1880s Val Marie SaskatchewanScandinavian Edit Gimli Manitoba pop 5 797 is home to the largest concentration of Icelanders outside of Iceland New Norway Alberta circa 1915 Icelandic settler statue in Elfros Saskatchewan Danish Edit See also Canadians of Danish descent New Denmark New Brunswick Danevirke Redvers Saskatchewan Cape Scott British Columbia Icelandic Edit See also Icelandic Canadian Vatnabyggd was an Icelandic settlement of about 2 000 square kilometres in Saskatchewan south of Fishing Lake and the Quill Lakes By 1911 it had attracted over 1 600 Icelanders 36 37 Vatnabyggd included the settlements of Kristnes Saskatchewan 1903 Dafoe 1905 Kandahar 1905 Wynyard 1904 Mozart 1903 Elfros 1903 Leslie 1907 Holar Saskatchewan 1905 Mount Hecla Saskatchewan 1904 and Foam Lake 1892 Map Near Churchbridge Saskatchewan were the settlements of Thingvalla Logberg and Vallar New Iceland Nyja Island 1875 1897 was located on the southwest shore of Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba The Rural Municipality of Gimli and the Rural Municipality of Bifrost are within the old settlement area New Iceland contained the settlements of Gimli Riverton Hnausa and Arborg 6 Map Other Icelandic settlements in Manitoba included Baldur Erickson Geysir Manitoba Glenboro Lakeview Manitoba Lundar Morden and Reykjavik Markerville AlbertaNorwegian Edit See also Norwegian Canadian Skaro Alberta Birch Hills Saskatchewan Torquay Saskatchewan Ibsen Saskatchewan Lake Alma Saskatchewan Norge Saskatchewan Lillestrom Saskatchewan Rose Valley Saskatchewan Simmie Saskatchewan Leroy Saskatchewan Norwegian Cove Saskatchewan New Norway Alberta Forestburg Alberta Camrose Alberta Oyen Alberta Viking Alberta Hagensborg British Columbia Pemberton British Columbia originally Agerton Swedish Edit See also Swedish Canadian Hilltop Manitoba and Scandinavia Manitoba in the Rural Municipality of Clanwilliam 1885 New Stockholm Saskatchewan 1886 38 Percival Saskatchewan Wadena Saskatchewan Camrose Alberta Waterville QuebecSee also EditList of named ethnic enclaves in North American cities Colonia United States Indian reserveReferences Edit Atlas of Saskatchewan Ethnic 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German Catholics of St Peter s Colony 1903 1930 By Paul Paproski OSB PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2014 05 29 Retrieved 2012 12 12 Atlas of Saskatchewan French and Francophone Metis Settlements Retrieved 2014 04 06 John Welsted 1 January 1996 The Geography of Manitoba Its Land and Its People Univ of Manitoba Press p 89 ISBN 978 0 88755 375 2 Vatnabyggd An Icelandic Settlement in Saskatchewan Retrieved 2014 05 28 Major Icelandic Settlements in America Archived from the original on 2014 01 15 Retrieved 2014 05 28 New Stockholm Lutheran Church Archived 2014 03 23 at the Wayback MachineFurther reading EditAlan Anderson Ethnic Bloc Settlements Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan 2006 online Paul Robert Magocsi ed Encyclopedia of Canada s Peoples 1999 External links EditThe Atlas of Saskatchewan provides a map of the entire province showing all major ethnic bloc settlements Government of Alberta s Heritage Department s page about the history of the Ukrainian settlements in East Central 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