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Note: This is a continuation from the June and October
2001 issues. Words in parenthesis are the Translator’s
addition for clarity.
Two groups arrived in the summer of 1893, coming
from Klosterdorf and Mühlhausen. They left Russia on
Whitsuntide (50 days after Easter) and embarked on the
Polaria, at Antwerp, and landed without incident in
Quebec. On the 21st of June 1893, they arrived in
Balgonie and were met by Andreas and Wilhelm Ehmann.
The latter had settled somewhat west of Kronau. The new
settlers immediately went land hunting and proceeded to
Regina to apply for their own land. They also bought some
oxen, and shortly thereafter erected a small house and
broke a bit of land in order to establish their homesteads.
were:
The new settlers from the colony of Mühlhausendorf
1. Andreas Fahlmann and his wife, Elisabeth Frey
and 2 children, Christopher and Elisabeth.
2. Johannes Fahlmann and his wife, Katharina
Ehmann and 5 children, Andreas, Maria,
Anastasia, Johann and Adolph.
3. Andreas Fahlmann and his wife Anna-Maria
Troppmann and 2 children, Mathilda and Maria.
4. Joseph Fahlmann and his wife, Anastasia Weber
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and 3 children, Robert 6, Joseph 4, and Johannes
2.
Historical Sketch of St. Peters Parish and the Founding of the
The families from the colony of Klosterdorf were:
1. Joseph Ehmann and his wife Mariana Reinlander.
2. Joseph Ehmann (son of above) and his wife,
Colony of Katharinental - The Year 1893
By Reverend Father H. Metzger
Translated by A. Becker and Sister Bernadine Kletzel
Reprinted from Heritage Review with permission from GRHS
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Margareta.
3. Albert Ehmann and his wife, Josephina Klein.
4. Georg Ehmann and his wife, Mathilda
Rokaschevski.
5. Jacob and Elisabeth Ehmann, both single.
At the same time the following arrived from Crimea:
1. Michael Seiferling and his wife, Clara Neigum
and 4 sons, Sebastian, Paul, Friedrich, and
Andreas. Four daughters, Anna-Maria, Helena,
Katharina and Karolina.
2. Alexander Schneider and his wife, Katharina.
3. Friedrich Schneider, single.
4. Mathias Obrigevitch, his wife and one child came
from Rastadt.
Phillip Materi, who came to Canada with his father in
1891, had been living in the neighboring parish of St.
Paul (Vibank). In 1897 he moved to the community of
St. Peter, where he later married. This family had
come from Franzfeld (South Russia).
The Founding of the Colonies
What the settlers from South Russia found the
most difficult was the loneliness of the wide open
prairies. They had previously lived in colonies (in South
Russia) and could not accept the solitude and the distance
from one another. Consequently, they immediately made
plans to establish colonies, modeled after those in Russia.
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