Lockwood, Saskatchewan
Administratively, the village of Lockwood was dissolved in 2002 and is now part of the rural municipality of Usborne.
Administratively, the village of Lockwood was dissolved in 2002 and is now part of the rural municipality of Usborne.
Homesteaders began arriving in large numbers in 1907; most were German immigrants from southern Russia. In 1913, the Canadian Pacific Railway came through the area and the village of Prussia was incorporated.
In 1917, anti-German sentiment prompted the inhabitants to change its name to Leader.
Immigrants from Kratzke and its daughter colony of Ährenfeld settled on farms in the Kerrobert area.
Lutheran immigrants from the Volga colonies settled in Jansen.
A predominantly Lutheran settlement of Volga Germans from Bangert emerged around Hodgeville in the rural municipality of Lawtonia. There were Mennonites in the area as well.
Baptist immigrants from the Volga colonies settled in Hampton.
Volga German families settled in and around Govan, Saskatchewan.
Baptist immigrants from the Volga colonies settled in Gorlitz.
Originally called Anoka, the town of Ebenezer in the Yorkton area was settled by German Baptists from Volhynia and the Volga in 1887. The settlement enlarged as new immigrants arrived and by 1889 there were 100 German families in the district.
The German-Russian settlers in Dafoe came from the Volga German colonies.