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Baptist immigrants from the Volga colonies settled in Hampton.

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.

Lutheran immigrants from the Volga colonies settled in Jansen.

Immigrants from Kratzke and its daughter colony of Ährenfeld settled on farms in the Kerrobert area.

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.

Administratively, the village of Lockwood was dissolved in 2002 and is now part of the rural municipality of Usborne.

Immigrants from Kolb settled in the town of Luseland, while those from Kratzke and its daughter colony of Ährenfeld settled on farms in the Luseland area.

Heart's Hill is a rural municipality in Saskatchewan located along the border of Alberta west of Luseland.

Volga German families from Holstein and Grimm settled in Regina.

Baptist immigrants from the Volga colonies settled in Rhein. Lutherans from Hussenbach and Rosenberg also settled there.

Lutheran immigrants from the Volga settled in Runnymede. They organized a Lutheran parish in 1917 which joined with the Togo Lutherans in 1921, and both were served by an itinerant pastor based at Rhein.