German Saskatchewan Genealogy Roots

German - Germany

Roots on immigration or passport papers may designate "German" if the pioneer sailed from Hamburg, Germany. Also German speaking immigrants may be designated as Russian if this was the nation which issued the exit passport. There were German speaking immigrants from Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Another consideration in tracing ancestral roots is country border changes as well as spelling changes of various languages for example... Bukowina or Buchenland is German, Bukowina is Polish, Bucovina is Romanian, and Bukovyna is Ukrainian.
Germans from Russia were mainly Mennonites of Dutch and German origin who had migrated to Russia before coming to Saskatchewan c1900. First Catherine the Great and Czat Peter III offered an invitation to foreign settlers of free land, freedom to practice religion, local self-government and exemption from compulsory military service. Then again in 1804, Czar Alexander I of Russia and Imperial Government of Germany offered free homesteads and money, cultural freedoms, military exemption and tax exemption for a number of years. At the time of the Napoleonic Wars 1804-1810 these promises looed appealing, and a huge wave of Germans to Russia occured. Under Czar Alexander II, in 1871 priveleges were revoked, policies were changed and these concessions were withdrawn. Russian language was to be taught in schools, local autonomy was lost and no exemptions from military service.
The Homestead Act of 1862 invited these settlers proud of their heritage to the U.S.A... homesteads in the Dakotas. Again free one quarter sections, free one quarter section pre emptions, and frere one quarter section wood lots. These homesteaders had bad implements and poor success breaking the land in the Dakotas.
The Dominion Land Act of 1872 now attracted settlers to Canada. "...One hundred and sixty acres of land was offered... to each settler who paid a filing fee of $10.00 and who resided on the land for three years. The settler, during that time, was required to build a domicile and to break at least fifteen acres of his land." ¹, again these Germans from Russia migrated, many settling near Allan, (Curzon, District of Assiniboia, NWT), Rosthern (Rosthern, District of Saskatchewan, NWT), Dundurn, Neudorf, Saskatchewan. German Catholic or Russland Deutsche who had fled to Romania and Russian Ruled Ukraine then emigrating to the U.S.A. and then to Canada.
The Russian Revolution of 1905 There have been German settlements near Rouleau, Wilcox, and Avonlee. The drought of 1880 did encourage the earliest settlersto have stock as well as an agricultural livelihood. The shortage of water at Neudorf causes yet another migration for those settlers, some going to nearby colonies to the North and West or South to Grenfell. Some Neudorf settlers travel to Manitoba and others to Texas, some returning.

• 1884 New Elsass German Colony near Strasbourg Regina Gen Web Region
  
• 1885 Anoka (later called Ebenezeer) settled by German baptists Yorkton Gen Web Region
  
• 1885 Edenwold Regina Gen Web Region
  
• 1885 New Toulcha North of Balgonie Yorkton Gen Web Region
  
• 1886 Hohenlohe near Langenburg Regina Gen Web Region
• 1886 Langenburg where the Manitoba and North West Railway ended. Yorkton Gen Web Region
  
• 1887 Volga German Colony near Yorkton Yorkton Gen Web Region
  
• 1902 Neudorf Eastern German Settlement Yorkton Gen Web Region
  
• 1902 Humboldt Saskatoon Gen Web Region
  
• 1903 Curzon (later called Allan) Saskatoon Gen Web Region
  
• 1903 Leofeld Saskatoon Gen Web Region
  
• 1903 Annaheim Saskatoon Gen Web Region
  
• 1903 Dead Moose Lake (later named Marysburg) Saskatoon Gen Web Region
  
• 1903 Englefeld Saskatoon Gen Web Region
  
• 1903 St. Benedict Mission Saskatoon Gen Web Region
  
• 1903 St. Joseph Balgonie German Catholic Colony (Josephtal) Kindersley Gen Web Region
  
• 1903 St. Peter's Colony near Leofeld Saskatoon Gen Web Region
  
• 1910 German colony near Billimun in the Wood Mountain area Moose Jaw Gen Web Region
• 1910 Jruvic arriving on the S.S. Russia

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Saskatchewan German Settlement Place Names
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German - Germany - Saskatchewan Links

1922 Maps The New World Atlas and Gazetteer Germany

Alberta German Settlements - Bowell and Districts

Ancestors of Jim Steer: Wendelin Schwab & Phillippina Giesinger

Atlas of Saskatchewan German Bloc Settlements Ethnic Bloc Settlements 1850s-1990s Map

Atlas of Saskatchewan Group Settlements

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