CHPD-FM (also called De Brigj) is a low-power

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station broadcasting at 105.9 FM in

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, Canada. The Aylmer and area Inter-Mennonite Community Council, was given approval in 2003, to operate a low-power

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FM radio station at 107.7 MHz to serve the local German-speaking Mennonite community. The station includes

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and cultural music, and

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information programming. In 2005, CHPD moved to its current frequency at 105.9 FM. The callsign meaning of CHPD is "Canada Horcht Plaut Dietsch". Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German) is the language of the

Russian Mennonite The Russian Mennonites (german: Russlandmennoniten it. "Russia Mennonites", i.e., Mennonites of or from the Russian Empire occasionally Ukrainian Mennonites) are a group of Mennonites who are descendants of Dutch Anabaptists who settled for abo ...

s. According to manager Hein Rempel, CHPD-FM is Canada's first and only Low German-language radio station. Hein was born in Mexico and moved to Canada in 1965.

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* * German-Canadian culture in Ontario HPD HDP HPD Mennonitism in Ontario Radio stations established in 2005 2005 establishments in Ontario Plautdietsch language Russian Mennonite diaspora in Canada {{Ontario-radio-station-stub