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Migration

Locations

49.094444, -117.709167
52.135, -108.949
52.433333, -109.1666
55.068611, -117.268333
49.260833, -123.1138
53.494754, -112.053021
50.267, -119.272
48.428333, -123.3647
50.4, -113.25
52.833333, -110.866667
52.116667, -104.516667
54.152222, -113.851111
52.969444, -113.376944
49.661111, -103.8525
56.108333, -118.078
52.416667, -108.7
42.283333, -83
49.9, -97.133333
49.805106, -104.161532
51.213889, -102.462778

Canada

Immigration from the Volga German colonies to Canada began in the late 1880s. Most immigrants settled in the Prairie Provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Larger migrations began around 1900 after the homestead lands of the United States were already taken. Migration of Volga Germans from the U.S. to Canada was also spurred by rumblings of U.S. involvement in World War I. Recent immigrants had just escaped the Russian military conscription of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 and were not eager to get involved yet again in military service.

Originally destined for the agricultural areas of the Prairie Provinces and railroad centers, today one finds descendants of Volga German immigrants scattered across the nation in every Canadian Province.