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67. Petition of the residents of Gruenthal, Blumenoff and Blumenort, R.M. of Rhineland Letterbook July 22, 1896.

68. E. K. Francis, "The Mennonite School Problem in Manitoba 1874-1919", Mennonite Quarterly Review, 27 (1953), page 217.

69. Peter George Klassen, "A Short History of the Mennonite Collegiate Institute, Gretna Manitoba", (M. Ed. Course Paper, University of Manitoba, 1956), page 12.

  1. E. K. Francis, op. cit., page 217; and Peter D. Zacharias, op. cit., page 207.
  2. R.M. of Rhineland Assessment Rolls.
  1. David De Garis De Lisle, "The Spatial Organization and Intensity of Agriculture in the Mennonite Villages of Southern Manitoba", (Ph. D. Thesis, McGill University, 1975), Table 5.2. De Lisle bases these figures on the property records of four Mennonite Villages.
  1. Rundschau, February 28, 1889.
  2. Ibid., January 2, 1901; Nordwesten, February 22, 1899.
  1. In 1900 Enoch Winkler of Gretna and Valentine Winkler of Morden bought school lands in the R.M. of Rhineland to the amount of $44,000. Nordwesten, June 14, 1900. 76. H. C. Jacobson, "Report on the Mennonite Colonies", Canada Sessional Papers, No. 6, (1890).
  1. Rundschau, May 9, 1888 and April 18, 1888.
  2. Nordwesten, July 4, 1890; April 24, 1891; and June 26, 1891.
  3. Gleaned from reports in the Nordwesten and the Rundschau.
  4. Rundschau, May 1, 1895.
  5. Reinland Village Papers, Mennonite Heritage Center Archives.
  6. John Warkentin, op. cit., page 211.
  7. Rundschau, Feb. 25, 1885; Aug. 19, 1885; and Aug. 26, 1886.
  1. A. E. Schantz describing the breakup of Mennonite Villages in the Manitoba Free Press, January 14, 1885.
  1. Rundschau, April 26, 1885.
  1. J. F. Galbraith, Mennonites in Manitoba 1875 -1900, (Morden: Chronicle Press, 1900), page 18.
  1. Peter D. Zacharias, op. cit., page 281.
  1. Based on the copies of numerous funeral invitations in the Braun Sisters Diary, (In private Possession).
  1. Peter D. Zacharias, op. cit., page 281.
  2. Esther Epp, op. cit., pages 96-97.
  3. Nordwesten, February 14, 1901.

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