Kana

The daughter colony of Kana was founded in 1860 by colonists resettling from the Bergseite colonies of Shcherbakovka, Schwab, Dreispitz, Holstein, Dobrinka, and Moor. Its name comes from the title of one of the original colonist recruiters: Baron de Caneau de Beauregard.

In March 1930, there was a mass action against those identified as kulaks (wealthy) in Kana. Following the 1941 deportation of the Volga Germans, Kana kept its name.

Church:

The Lutheran congregation in Kana belonged to the parish headquartered in Gnadentau.

Immigration:

Regina, Saskatchewan

Sebewaing, Huron Co., Michigan

Hague, Saskatchewan

Denver Metropolitan Area, Colorado

Fort Collins, Larimer Co., Colorado

Johnstown, Larimer / Weld Co., Colorado

Eaton, Weld Co., Colorado

Keenesburg, Weld Co., Colorado

Calgary, Alberta

Population:

Year	Households	Population
Year	Households	Total	Male	Female
1857
1859
1888	101	721	354	367
1891
1894
1897		739*	368	371
1908	126	1,484	734	750
1910	183	1,535	785	750
1912		1,500
1920	201	1,349
1922		740
1926**	191	1,075	517	558

*Of whom 725 were German.
**Of whom 1,066 (511 male & 555 female) were German living in 188 households.

External Links:

- Kana (Jeruslan Nachrichten)
- Kano (wolgadeutsche.net) [in Russian]

Sources:

- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 312.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.