77-505: Telus Mobility (normally typeset as TELUS Mobility ) is a Canadian wireless network operator and a division of Telus Communications which sells wireless services in Canada on its network. It operates 5G+, 5G , LTE , HSPA+ , and LPWA on its network. Telus Mobility is the second-largest wireless carrier in Canada , with 10.6 million subscribers as of Q3 2020. Since 2008, Telus has operated
154-438: A UMTS network, an LTE network and a 5G network. Telus has the fastest mobile network in Canada as of 2020 according to Speedtest.net . On November 5, 2009, Telus launched HSPA+ services the day after Bell launched the services on their network; much of the 3G infrastructure is shared between the two carriers. This network operates on the frequencies of 850/1900 MHz. Telus' single-channel 21 Mbit/s HSPA+ network
231-576: A misnomer given that they were ethnically Dutch. In 1873, the Mennonites sent delegates to North America to investigate and negotiate terms of immigration. After touring a number of locations in North America, many of the delegates decided to move their people to Kansas , however, the more conservative groups were persuaded to settle in the new Canadian province of Manitoba, because the Canadian government
308-566: A mobile broadband connection, while the latter uses traditional telephony through the dialing code No. 100. The Telehop service, which deducts minutes when used during weekdays, cannot be use for calls terminating in Canada or the United States. Telus offers several Internet-only and smartphone plans and add-ons for customers wishing to access mobile broadband . Only one plan can be added per device, and certain plans are only available for certain devices. Telus Mobility postpaid customers with
385-541: A 2014 press release, Telus stated that charges elicited from unwanted spam text messages can be waived at the customer's request. From 2008 to 2011 inclusively, Telus Mobility sold pink BlackBerry phones where a portion of each sale would support breast cancer research. This included the BlackBerry Curve and the BlackBerry Pearl consumer models. In 2012, Telus introduced a new campaign entitled "$ 25 for Free
462-489: A compatible smartphone can subscribe to Skype (and formerly also Rdio ) and be billed for the service on their monthly bill. Use of either service on the Telus Mobility network requires a subscription to one of the provider's data plans or add-ons. In 2007, Telus Mobility began selling in-house pay-per-download pornographic entertainment, including explicit pictures and videos, via its phones. Industry analysts described
539-647: A dining room licence, permitting alcohol to be sold and served only with sales of food. In 2007, the issue of serving alcohol in restaurant lounges was defeated by only nine votes, while the sale of alcohol at sports facilities such as the Steinbach Fly-In Golf Course was approved. In February 2008, Steinbach Council voted in favour of opening a liquor store in the city. Eventually, the first Liquor Mart in Steinbach opened in March 2009, on PTH 12 North, operated by
616-585: A dozen villages" in the distance. A crowd of 1000 people greeted his arrival. That same year, the first windmill in the town was built by Abraham S. Friesen. The death of Rev. Barkman left Steinbach without religious leadership for a number of years, creating a vacuum that made the villagers receptive to John Holdeman when he visited in 1881. After Holdeman's visit, many locals from the Kleine Gemeinde joined his new church, Church of God in Christ, Mennonite . This
693-482: A flanker brand named Koodo Mobile , which is targeted at high school, college and university students. In 1983, AGT Mobility was formed by Alberta Government Telephones (the predecessor to Telus) to provide a 1G analogue mobile network for Alberta's natural resources industries. It was the first mobile phone network in Canada. Analogue services became available to the general public in 1986. In 1992, AGT launched North America's first digital mobile network. Following
770-404: A former local high school teacher, was elected Member of Parliament in the region, the first Mennonite in the area to do so. Epp was also the first Mennonite to serve as a federal cabinet minister and was MP until 1993. In May 1980, Steinbach's first shopping mall, Clearspring Centre, opened on the north end of the community. The mall was named after the historic English and Scottish settlement in
847-406: A mix of Bell prepaid and Telus postpaid services; some stores also offer handsets and prepaid minutes under the original network banners. Mobile network operator A mobile network operator (MNO), also known as a mobile network provider , mobile network carrier , mobile telco , wireless service provider , wireless carrier , wireless operator , wireless telco , or cellular company ,
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#1733121279793924-435: A mobile network operator can outsource any of these systems or functions and still be considered a mobile network operator. In addition to obtaining revenue by offering retail services under its own brand, a mobile network operator may also sell access to network services at wholesale rates to mobile virtual network operators (MVNO). Steinbach, Manitoba Steinbach ( / ˈ s t aɪ n b æ k / )
1001-661: A once common practice that is no longer permitted in Manitoba. Barkman was the first Mennonite from the area, who had previously eschewed this level of political involvement, to join the Manitoba Legislature. During the 1950s and 1960s, Steinbach was home to many Christian revival meetings, including frequent visits by George Brunk, Ben D. Reimer and others. These meetings were held in a quonset just off of Main Street called The Tabernacle. The new more evangelical theology transformed
1078-448: A partnership with Bell. Telus advertises this network as having download speeds of up to 110 Mbit/s and its LTE Advanced network as having download speeds up to 225 Mbit/s. As of August 2016, LTE coverage reaches most of Canada's population, but there are gaps in coverage in smaller communities and between communities, where TELUS' HSPA+ network is available, but its LTE network is not available. Steinbach, MB (population 13,500)
1155-525: A personal computer via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port, while some also provide Internet access to multiple devices via Wi-Fi and thus do not require a wired connection. In many areas of Alberta and British Columbia, Telus offers an LTE/HSPA+ internet service for stationary use in homes or businesses in rural areas where wired service is unavailable. This service uses an LTE router which provides WIFI and LAN connectivity. The router can be purchased outright, or it can be paid for with 24 equal payments added to
1232-478: A regional service centre for the area. By 1915, Steinbach had grown to a population of 463 and continued to attract immigrants from Europe. Many of the new immigrants were Bergthaler Mennonites, but Steinbach also was the destination for new German and Lutheran settlers, as well as some British families who had previously settled in the Clearspring Settlement slightly to the north. Steinbach's first bank,
1309-483: A significant presence in the city today. Steinbach is found on the eastern edge of the Canadian Prairies , while Sandilands Provincial Forest is a short distance east of the city. Steinbach's economy has traditionally been focused around agriculture ; however, as the regional economic hub of southeastern Manitoba, Steinbach now has a trading area population of about 50,000 people and significant employment in
1386-589: A single elected official from the area attended or endorsed the event. Ongoing rapid growth meant that the city needed more land and space in order to sustain itself. This led the city to negotiate an annexation of 11 km (2,800 acres) from the Rural Municipality of Hanover in 2015, the first major annexation for the city since 1979. Steinbach was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in August 2020, with
1463-424: A year earlier, the village of Steinbach was surveyed and land was redistributed with individual titles to open-field properties. Those who were given inferior land were financially compensated by the others. Although a communal pasture for cattle was maintained for some decades after this, the end of the linear settlement meant the end of the traditional communal lifestyle of the Mennonites in this area, but also opened
1540-435: Is a telecommunications provider of services that sells, delivers and maintains mobile telephony services to an end user. A key defining characteristic of a mobile network operator is that it must own or control access to a radio spectrum license from a regulatory or government entity, and also that it must own or control the elements of the cellular network infrastructure necessary to provide services to subscribers over
1617-735: Is available to 97% of the Canadian population. About 70% of the Canadian population are located in Telus' 42 Mbit/s dual-channel coverage areas. Telus' HSPA+ network coverage is in portions of all Canadian provinces and territories, but it is not possible to drive in Canada between the Pacific coast and the Atlantic coast without going through areas without any cellular coverage, as there are gaps in cellular coverage in British Columbia and Ontario. LTE service for Telus launched on February 10, 2012, through
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#17331212797931694-523: Is charged for accessing the latter. All voice plans except for the least expensive one also allow the choice of one additional feature: double minutes, five favourite numbers or unlimited Canada-wide SMS / MMS messaging. For the five favourite numbers, unlimited calling is available in either local or Canada-wide options while messaging to these numbers is Canada-wide. Partners Skype and Telehop offer long-distance services for Telus Mobility customers. The first service uses Voice over IP (VoIP) and requires
1771-524: Is located on the eastern edge of the Canadian Prairies , and is also located directly east of the Red River Valley . The flat land in Steinbach was originally a thick patch of poplar trees. The land was flat and very swampy, with the last of the swamps finally drained in 1900, which made the soil more arable and suitable for agriculture. Steinbach's main geographic feature is the Steinbach Creek, which
1848-594: Is no way of blocking incoming message fees and suggested Telus and Bell were price fixing as both had announced the fees simultaneously. Both companies have been sued by frustrated consumers and subscribers, as they demand change in text charges. Many customers were frustrated because this fee also applies to existing customers with ongoing contracts. As of 2014, the only plans in which Telus and Bell charge per message (either outgoing or incoming) are pay-per-use prepaid plans. All monthly rate plans include at least unlimited text messaging to numbers within Canada. Additionally in
1925-511: Is now mostly dry, still runs along Elmdale Street. Due to higher levels of precipitation received than in the areas of western Manitoba , the natural prairie near Steinbach is defined as tallgrass prairie . Some of this original prairie can still be viewed at the Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve south of the city near Vita . The areas to the west and north of Steinbach are defined as flat tallgrass prairie, and part of
2002-404: Is supported throughout Canada. Telus' product lineup mainly consists of smartphones but also includes a few feature phones . As of July 2017, smartphones are currently sold with either Android or iOS operating systems preloaded. Telus also sells several mobile broadband modems for use with its mobile broadband service. All modems currently sold support HSPA+ and LTE, and can connect to
2079-622: Is the third-largest city in the province of Manitoba , Canada, and with a population of 17,806, the largest community in the Eastman region . The city, located about 58 km (36 mi) southeast of the provincial capital of Winnipeg , is bordered by the Rural Municipality of Hanover to the north, west, and south, and the Rural Municipality of La Broquerie to the east. Steinbach was first settled by Plautdietsch -speaking Mennonites from Ukraine in 1874, whose descendants continue to have
2156-579: Is the largest Canadian community without LTE coverage from TELUS. Except near Canada's largest metropolitan areas, contiguous LTE coverage does not exist between communities. Bell Mobility , which shares towers and coverage with Telus, intends to expand LTE coverage to 98% of the Canadian population by the end of 2016. As a consequence, Telus' coverage will similarly expand. In April 2015, Telus announced that all of its wireless sites in British Columbia and Alberta will be upgraded to LTE. According to Telus, as of March 31, 2016, it had LTE coverage available 97% of
2233-570: The Bergthaler and Kleine Gemeinde groups immigrated to Manitoba, aided by Ontario Mennonite Jacob Yost Shantz , and founded dozens of villages in the East Reserve. Steinbach's original 18 Mennonite settler families were almost entirely of the new Kleine Gemeinde sect of Mennonites, a small conservative minority known for being gifted farmers. They left the Borosenko colony (a newly-formed offshoot of
2310-564: The Bruderthaler , who, unlike the Kleine Gemeinde and Holdeman Mennonites, taught that being successful in business was not a sin and, in fact, was to be encouraged. The new theology moved Steinbach from a more traditional and agriculturally-based economy to one that emphasized business and industry. Entrepreneurs took advantage of the business opportunities at the time and several small businesses sprang up. Many other important and large businesses developed as well, helping to establish Steinbach as
2387-544: The Manitoba Liquor Control Commission . The most recent public vote was held in October 2011. In this referendum, voters agreed to accept, by a large margin, the following three licences: beverage rooms, cocktail lounges, and private club licences. In 2018, after the Canadian government legalized cannabis , Steinbach residents voted to deny the licensing of retail cannabis stores in the city. Steinbach
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2464-696: The Royal Bank , opened in 1915. During World War I , most Steinbach Mennonites were given an exemption from military service, as promised in the Privilegium they had agreed to upon immigration in the 1870s. Mistakenly considered "ethnic Germans", even though they were actually primarily of Dutch ancestry, the Mennonites were caught up in the anti-German sentiment of the time and Conservative Prime Minister Robert Borden banned Mennonites from Steinbach and other areas from voting in 1917. A year later, in 1918, as soldiers returned to North America, Spanish flu struck
2541-472: The financial services industry, automobile sales, tourism , retail, and manufacturing. The city had a population growth of 11.1% between 2016 and 2021 and has gained national recognition as an immigration destination of Canada and a model for immigrant integration in the country. Steinbach means "Stony Brook" in German . Steinbach's stony brook was drained sometime after settlement. Low German-Mennonites named
2618-528: The "Automobile City", a name coined by A.D. Penner. From the 1940s to the 1960s, T.G. Smith, was a local bank manager who organized many of Steinbach's first recreational activities, which the Mennonite population had been reluctant to adopt on their own. In 1958, Leonard Barkman was elected mayor and served until 1970. Barkman, a member of the Liberal Party , also served as M.L.A. while mayor of Steinbach,
2695-400: The "Flying Bandit". In 1970, the year of Manitoba's centennial, Steinbach was visited by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles . A crowd of 10,000 waited along the streets of Steinbach as the royals visited, coming from the east along Highway 52 after their visit to La Brouqerie . The Carillon described the visit saying, "it was the most memorable and exciting moment in the history of
2772-457: The 2020s, Steinbach became significantly more multicultural with 21% of the population being immigrants, many from The Philippines, India , and Nigeria . Despite being prohibited by local churches, Steinbach had alcohol sales, including beverage rooms, throughout the early 20th century. In 1950, however, Steinbach citizens voted to prohibit all liquor sales in the community, although a drinking establishment on Main Street called The Tourist Hotel
2849-554: The 2023 film The Burial . In 1941, the Steinbach Credit Union opened, partially in response to the difficulty in obtaining loans from the larger banks. During World War II , most Steinbachers who were eligible for the draft served in alternative service as conscientious objectors , though some also served in the active military. After the war, a third major wave of immigration boosted Steinbach's population, with thousands of Mennonites again fleeing Europe. Steinbach
2926-1002: The AMPS network's shutdown in rural areas, as digital signals are less reliable than analog ones in such areas. Following both events, Telus began a slow phasing out of CDMA devices, especially those that support both AMPS and CDMA technologies. In February 2012, Telus launched its LTE network and it stopped selling CDMA devices, except those on clearance. In 2013, Telus was approved by the Canadian government to purchase independent wireless carrier Public Mobile . On August 8, 2014, Telus shut down Public Mobile's CDMA network after informing customers that they would need to buy phones compatible with Telus' network. On March 31, 2015, Telus shut down its pager network. On January 29, 2016, Telus shut down its Mike iDEN network. On May 31, 2017, Telus shut down its CDMA network. Telus Mobility partners with Bell Mobility to operate three different kinds of nationwide networks in Canada. These networks include
3003-466: The Bergthaler and earlier Kleine Gemeinde families. The earlier settlers had come to realize the area suffered from excessive moisture and settled upon much of the higher lands and gravel ridges. Steinbach's settlers chose the best land that was available to them, which was in the very northeast corner of the East Reserve. The 20 homesteads were laid out on the northeast side of present-day Main Street along
3080-431: The Canadian population and LTE Advance coverage available to 50% of the Canadian population. In May 2016, Telus announced that by the end of the year, it would expand its coverage to 99% of British Columbians and expand its LTE coverage to 98% of British Columbians, expand its LTE coverage to 99% of Albertans, and expand its LTE coverage to 99% of Ontarians. On April 18, 2016, Telus launched Voice over LTE (VoLTE). VoLTE
3157-765: The Children " to replace the breast cancer campaign. For every purchase of the Samsung Galaxy S III or the Samsung Galaxy Ace Q, TELUS will donate $ 25 to Free the Children, up to a maximum of $ 650,000. Both phones include a We Day -themed gel skin to fit the respective phone purchased. Telus Mobility has its own corporate retail stores and also allows third parties to become exclusive dealers. Best Buy , Walmart and selected Loblaws stores in Canada provide Telus products, prepaid and/or postpaid services. The Loblaws PC Telecom mobile virtual network operator repackages
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3234-532: The Kleine Gemeinde to Canada, drowned in the Red River, along with Jakob K. Friesen on a trip to Winnipeg for supplies. This left the community without religious leadership for some time. After a plague of grasshoppers destroyed the crops in 1876, residents of Steinbach met in Blumenort to discuss the possibility of migrating to Minnesota or Nebraska . However, 60-year-old matriarch Elizabeth Rempel Reimer persuaded
3311-679: The Russlander Mennonites who lived there, was later renamed McKenzie Avenue after the Prime Minister who had allowed them to come to Canada as refugees. In 1931, local man Abraham Loewen founded the Loewen Funeral Chapel, the first funeral home in southeastern Manitoba, which decades later was taken over by his son Ray Loewen , who built the company into the Loewen Funeral Group, before its eventual downfall as depicted in
3388-558: The Southeast. For the first time since the earliest European settlers arrived in the 1860s and 1870s, a member of the British royal family paid a personal visit to the communities of La Broquerie, Steinbach, Sarto, Grunthal and St. Pierre . For these communities and their people the visit by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles on the eve of Manitoba's 100th birthday highlighted a century of economic and cultural development." In 1972, Jake Epp ,
3465-582: The Soviet Union (particularly Siberia and Kazakhstan ) throughout much of the 20th century, or who had resettled in Germany during the 1970s, began to immigrate to the area and continued to do so through the 1990s and early 2000s. Some of these people had converted to the Baptist church during the decades in the Soviet Union. Over all, Steinbach's growth slowed somewhat during the 1980s and early 1990s in comparison to
3542-401: The accommodation of gay-straight alliance groups in schools, including faith-based private schools. On 13 September 2013, Bill 18 passed without amendments. Partially in response to this issue, the city's first Steinbach Pride parade was held in 2016. While initially expecting about 200 people, approximately 3,000 people attended the event. This was brought about in part by the fact that not
3619-424: The action, the first by a North American wireless company, as a landmark move. However, the company later discontinued sales of such content in response to objections from religious groups. In July 2008, Telus Mobility and Bell Mobility simultaneously introduced charges of 15¢ for every incoming text message received by all customers not subscribed to a text messaging plan. Critics were quick to point out that there
3696-454: The area up to greater entrepreneurial enterprise. The mayor, or schulz, of Steinbach at this time was Johan G. Barkman, Steinbach's longest serving schulz, who held that position for twenty-five years, including overseeing such significant events as the end of the Strassendorf. In 1911, the Kleine Gemeinde church, who had met in the village school up until this point, constructed a building on
3773-468: The area. In fall of 1982, Steinbach drew considerable attention after the school board cancelled a scheduled rock concert in the local high school by Queen City Kids . Hundreds of students staged a protest as a result of the cancellation. The incident was alluded to years later in the work of novelist Miriam Toews . After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Aussiedler Mennonites, who had remained in
3850-411: The bill over two years. The payments which would be over $ 11.00 are rounded down to $ 10 per month. Telus Mobility sells a variety of voice plans. These include a fixed number of minutes plus unlimited calling on weeknights, weekends and with up to four other Telus lines on the same account. Caller ID and a basic voicemail for up to three messages are also included as calling features, although airtime
3927-442: The city, was destroyed by arsonists. It was rebuilt less than a year later with the assistance of Dutch millwrights. Steinbach attracted prominent attention in 2004 when Mennonite author Miriam Toews , who was born and grew up in Steinbach, published her novel A Complicated Kindness . The book became a bestseller, exploring a fictionalized town modelled after Steinbach. It won the 2004 Governor General's Award for Fiction , and
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#17331212797934004-509: The creek, where they founded the village of Steinbach, taking the name "Steinbach" from the village where they lived in Borosenko. Contrary to the preferences of the Canadian government, the early settlers of Steinbach, like other Mennonite villages, organized the village into a Strassendorf, or street village, with each family occupying a long narrow strip known as a Wirtschaft . In the first year they built temporary shelters known as semlin , before building more permanent housebarns . Most of
4081-487: The doctrine and practices of many of the local Mennonite churches and contributed to their assimilation. Many local churches adopted evangelical theology or merged it with their traditional Anabaptist theology, and some dropped the Mennonite label altogether. In 1960, the Kleine Gemeinde church building, which by then was called the Evangelical Mennonite Conference , burned to the ground. The same year,
4158-531: The entire population still spoke Plautdietsch, with only a few reporting a knowledge of English. In 1910, the street village linear settlement , or Strassendorf ( Straßendorf in German) for the community ended. Prior to this time, the settlers of Steinbach lived in long narrow strips, called Wirtschaft (plural: Wirtschaften ), along the Steinbach Creek. Following the lead of the neighbouring Mennonite village of Blumenort , who had abandoned their Strassendorf system
4235-409: The group to stay in Steinbach, a stirring and historically significant speech which signified the important role of women in the community and resulted in Steinbach's continued survival as a community, unlike dozens of other East Reserve villages which have since disappeared. In 1877, Lord Dufferin toured Manitoba's new Mennonite settlements and stopped just west of Steinbach where he could see "half
4312-517: The larger Molotschna (or Milk River) colony) in Ukraine and arrived in Canada late in the summer of 1874. Aided by their Métis neighbours, the families disembarked on the far west side of the reserve at the forks of the Rat and Red Rivers, near present-day Niverville . As they moved east across the reserve, they found that much of the better land in the reserve had already been settled a few months earlier by
4389-600: The last traditional Mennonite housebarn in Steinbach was torn down by A.D. Penner. Partially in response to the destruction of heritage buildings in the area, such as the historic housebarn destroyed by A.D. Penner, residents in the 1960s saw the need to preserve and remember the Mennonite history of the region. In 1967, the Mennonite Heritage Village museum in Steinbach was opened. In 1966, infamous gold thief Ken Leishman escaped from Headingly Jail and stole an airplane from Steinbach, solidifying his nickname as
4466-419: The late 1800s, including scarlet fever , whooping cough , and diphtheria . In the spring of 1884 alone, more than seventy people died, mostly children. Another whooping cough epidemic took place in 1900. By 1900, the settlers had drained the swamps and cleared the land making it more suitable for the farming of wheat, barley, oats and potatoes. In the 1901 census, Steinbach had a population of 366, and almost
4543-407: The licensed radio spectrum . In addition the operator would also contain other elements like the back haul infrastructure and provisioning computer systems. A mobile network operator typically also has the necessary provisioning, billing, and customer care computer systems, and the marketing, customer care, and engineering organizations needed to sell, deliver, and bill for services. However,
4620-921: The merger of Telus with BC Tel in 1999, Telus Mobility expanded its coverage to British Columbia . The company's website went online on October 14, 1999. The following year, Telus acquired Clearnet Communications and QuébecTel to expand its coverage to the central provinces. All these acquisitions, along with a tower-sharing agreement with then-primarily Eastern Canada based Bell Mobility , allowed Telus Mobility to offer its CDMA network in all Canadian provinces. Bell and Telus continued their partnership for future network construction. In 2007, Telus Mobility launched mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Amp'd Mobile Canada, but replaced it in 2008 with Koodo Mobile In February 2008, Telus Mobility discontinued its AMPS analog network, and launched its HSPA+ network in November 2009. Telus offered landlines to customers affected by
4697-464: The modern city limits. At the time of English and Scottish settlement, the nearest settled area was 17 km north in Ste. Anne, Manitoba , a Métis village founded 17 years earlier in 1856. In 1873, the Canadian government sent William Hespeler to recruit Mennonites to move to the area. By the 1870s, some Plautdietsch -speaking Mennonites in Ukraine became dissatisfied with increasing Russification and
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#17331212797934774-411: The more conservative Mennonites, who left the area for Mexico and Paraguay , after the Canadian government required them to learn English and attend public schools, issues which seemed to be in violation of the Privilegium signed in 1873. In 1920, the village of Steinbach was formed into an "Unincorporated Village District" of the Rural Municipality of Hanover . After the Mennonite immigration ban
4851-480: The rate of growth in decades before or since. In 1996, Les Magnusson was elected mayor of Steinbach, the first non- ethnic Mennonite to hold that position. Magnusson was a vocal opponent of attempts in Steinbach to allow liquor sales. With Les Magnusson as mayor, Steinbach was incorporated as a city on 10 October 1997. In 2000, the windmill at the Mennonite Heritage Village, a recognized symbol of
4928-507: The removal of their military exemption and were persuaded by Hespeler to investigate Manitoba as a possibility for relocation. These Mennonite communities were not ethnically Russian, but had Dutch ancestry dating back to 16th century Friesland and Flanders , after which time they lived in Prussia for two centuries and then the Russian Empire where they became known as Russian Mennonites ,
5005-525: The settlers were farmers, but in a somewhat urban setting, and lived, to some degree, communally, and shared a common pasture at the end of the village. They started a school in the first year, and in the following year of 1875 built a school and teacherage. Steinbach's Main Street was hacked out of thick poplar bush along the creek, where a bison trail ran, a trail that was still used by Indigenous people during Steinbach's early years. In June 1875, Steinbach's spiritual leader Rev. Jakob Barkman, who had led
5082-472: The south end of the village. In 1912, J.R. Friesen opened a Ford auto dealership in town, which was the first Ford dealership in Western Canada. At the time, Friesen was excommunicated from the Kleine Gemeinde for adopting the modern technology, but within a few years, many Steinbachers accepted the automobile as an acceptable mode of transportation. By this time, Steinbach had a third Mennonite church,
5159-568: The town Steinbach in 1874, after a village also called Steinbach in Borosenko colony, Ukraine. After the Assiniboine and Cree First Nations left the region in the 1820s, the Anishinabe hunted in and moved seasonally through the area on their way to the burial grounds in the Whiteshell . A bison trail ran alongside the Steinbach Creek on the far eastern edge of the Canadian prairies, a trail that
5236-464: The village, killing many. Mennonites in the region were particularly affected by the outbreak, dying at a rate nearly twice that of other ethnic groups. After the First World War, Borden banned Mennonites and other pacifists from immigrating to Canada. The ban lasted for three years, from 1919 to 1922, when the new Liberal government lifted the ban. At the same time, there was the out-migration of
5313-435: The virus affecting community members, several businesses, and eventually an outbreak at Bethesda Place, the personal care home at Bethesda Regional Health Centre . By November 2020, Steinbach briefly had the highest per capita rate of Covid infections in Canada. The Bethesda Regional Health Centre was reportedly overwhelmed and out of beds on November 13, 2020, with patients having to be triaged in their cars. Beginning in
5390-409: Was allowed to remain, until it closed in 1973. Since the 1970s, Steinbach has had seven separate referendums on whether liquor sales should be allowed within the confines of the city, all of which failed until a 2003 referendum when Steinbach residents narrowly voted to allow limited liquor sales in the city, despite opposition from then mayor Les Magnusson. The 2003 referendum, however, passed only
5467-654: Was attributed to immigration from such countries as Germany, Russia, and the Philippines . Steinbach gained national recognition from such newspapers as The Globe and Mail , which described the city as an immigration "hotbed" of Canada and a model for immigrant integration. During March 2013, the city gained national attention when several community members, such as the Southland Community Church and Steinbach Christian High School expressed opposition to provincial Bill 18, an anti-bullying bill that would require
5544-487: Was incorporated as a town on 31 December 1946, with the Main Street being paved the following year. The new town elected Klaas Barkman as mayor who, along with councillor and auto-dealer A.D. Penner , had been instrumental in Steinbach's incorporation. As the regional service centre for the area, Steinbach developed manufacturing, trucking, and retailing, particularly in automobile sales. Steinbach became known regionally as
5621-627: Was lifted in 1922 by Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King , a second wave of Mennonite immigration occurred due to the Russian Revolution, and many of the "Russlander" Mennonites took over farms and land left unoccupied by the Mennonites leaving for Latin America. During the 1920s, thousands of Mennonite refugees fled the Soviet Union , many of them arriving in the Steinbach area. Moscow Road, which had been pejoratively named to refer to
5698-484: Was more generous in their guarantees of religious freedom. In 1873, a Privilegium was signed between the Mennonite delegates and the Canadian government, and a year later Mennonites started to arrive in the region. The document guaranteed, among other things, military exemption, freedom of religion, private schools, and land, known as the East Reserve . In the year following the signing of the Privilegium, Mennonites from
5775-429: Was selected as the 2006 book for Canada Reads , the first book by a female writer to be chosen. Steinbach continued to grow during Magnusson's tenure and, after the election of Chris Goertzen as mayor in 2006, became one of the fastest-growing cities in Canada. In 2011, Steinbach was officially announced as Manitoba's third-largest city, with the release of the population data from the 2011 Canadian Census . The growth
5852-401: Was the first of many schisms and revivals in Steinbach and eventually the town would be known for having dozens of churches, many of them different variations of Mennonite, a dynamic that has shaped the city's character. After a period of eight years, in 1882, Mayor Gerhard Giesbrecht said that the village had grown to 28 families with a population of 128. Various epidemics swept the area in
5929-527: Was used by First Nations people for a number of years after settlement. In 1871, the Imperial Crown of Great Britain and Ireland and Anishinabe people signed Treaty 1 , after which time the Canadian government began recruiting European farmers to the region, establishing the English and Scottish settlement of Clear Springs in 1872, just north of the present day location of Steinbach, and partially contained within
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