Reinland is a

Mennonite Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. The name is derived from the founder of the movement, Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings about Reformed Christianity during the Radic ...

village in

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located in the

Rural Municipality of Stanley Stanley is a rural municipality (RM) in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It is located in the southern part of the province, along its border with the state of North Dakota in the United States. Since 1876, the area made up part of the ...

, about ten minutes south of Winkler and about five minutes north of U.S. border. Its

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numbers about five hundred, with an agrarian economy. Reinland was one of the first Mennonite villages established in the

West Reserve 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 1876. After signing Treaty 1 with the Anishinabe and Swampy Cree First Nations, the C ...

; it now has some of the best examples of original Mennonite village setup and buildings, including traditional

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s and a historic church. The village also has one of the oldest wooden churches in Western Canada that is still in use. Built by the

Old Colony Mennonite The name Old Colony Mennonites (German language, German: ''Altkolonier-Mennoniten'') is used to describe that part of the Russian Mennonite movement that is descended from colonists who migrated from the Chortitza Colony in Russia (itself origina ...

settlers in 1878, the church was utilized as a sanctuary until the early 1970s, at which time it was turned into a community centre. Across the street is another important attraction: th
Ens Heritage Homestead
The Reinlander Mennonite conference originated in this village, as the home of the bishop.

Notable residents

Di Brandt Di Brandt (born 31 January 1952) (née Janzen) often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018. Life and career Brandt grew up in Reinland, a Mennonite farmin ...

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