Sunday 29 July 2012

Mennonite Heritage Village


We left aiming to get to the village at 10am. We got there a little later. We started with the gift shop then went on looking at the houses. It is kind of like Upper Canada Village, but the Mennonites just had one main street everything was on. There was a blacksmith, general store, barn, public school, Mennonite school church and many other things. They have a windmill that grinds their flower. The government made all the Mennonite kids go to public school, so the Mennonites that didn’t like that moved to Mexico or Paraguay. The other’s agreed. The churches were really plain and so were a lot of the houses. They could have up to 14 kids and the kids had to share rooms, no one had their own room. At the barn the baby goats came out to see me and the donkey let me scratch him. There were 2 different brides there getting their pictures taken. We finished by looking at the gist shop again and then a little indoor exhibit. It talked about the prosecution on the Mennonites and more.
We left and stopped at went to Kenora info center. We went to the Blue Heron for a magnet. I saw a giant fish there and Safeway and Starbucks for drinks.

 Reimer AVE
Steinbach

 A tribute to the Mennonite Woman
Fran

 The public school the Mennonite kids were forced to go to
Fran, Samantha
 Rumble seat

 A Mennonite school
Fran

 The goat came to say hello
Samantha
 Scratching the donkey
Samantha

 A plain, Mennonite Church
Samantha

Where the Mennonites travelled too

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