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The colony of Capão D'Anta was settled by Volga Germans on 22 March 1879.

The geographic coordinates for this village are approximate. It's exact location is not determined.

Colônia Adelaide was one of the subunits of Colônia Octávio founded by Volga German settlers in 1878.

Lutheran immigrants from the Volga colonies settled in Pelly.

Lutheran immigrants from the Volga colonies settled in Springside.

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.

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

Volga German families from Holstein and Grimm settled in Regina.

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.

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.