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Mennonite Heritage Week

General Information Low German Program

Students at Horizon MAP School in Vauxhall celebrated Mennonite Heritage Week all week with different activities at their school. 

Mennonite Heritage Week is celebrated annually during the second week of September. The first Mennonites arrived in Upper Canada in the late 1700s. They settled there to escape war and persecution in their native Germany. Today, about 200,000 Mennonites live in Canada, mainly in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Ontario’s Waterloo Region. Mennonite lifestyles vary; some communities have chosen to focus on tradition and live in rural areas, while others have moved to major centres and work in a wide variety of fields.