44 Facts About Steinbach Manitoba

Steinbach Manitoba was first settled by Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites from the Russian Empire in 1874, whose descendants continue to have a significant presence in the city today.

Steinbach Manitoba is found on the eastern edge of the Canadian Prairies, while Sandilands Provincial Forest is a short distance east of the city.

Steinbach Manitoba's settlers spoke Plautdietsch and the majority came directly from the Borosenko colony in Imperial Russia, now Ukraine.

Steinbach Manitoba's settlers chose the best land that was available to them, which was in the very northeast corner of the East Reserve.

The 20 homesteads were laid out on the northeast side of present-day Main Street along the creek, where they founded the village of Steinbach Manitoba, taking the name "Steinbach Manitoba" from the village where they lived in Borosenko.

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However, 60-year-old matriarch Elizabeth Rempel Reimer persuaded the group to stay in Steinbach Manitoba, a stirring and historically significant speech which signified the important role of women in the community and resulted in Steinbach Manitoba's continued survival as a community, unlike dozens of other East Reserve villages which have since disappeared.

Many of the new immigrants were Bergthaler Mennonites, but Steinbach Manitoba was the destination for new German and Lutheran settlers, as well as some British families who had previously settled in the Clearspring Settlement slightly to the north.

In 1920, the village of Steinbach Manitoba was formed into an "Unincorporated Village District" of the Rural Municipality of Hanover.

Steinbach Manitoba was incorporated as a town on 31 December 1946, with the Main Street being paved the following year.

In 1970, the year of Manitoba's centennial, Steinbach was visited by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles.

In fall of 1982, Steinbach Manitoba drew considerable attention after the school board cancelled a scheduled rock concert in the local high school by Queen City Kids.

Over all, Steinbach Manitoba's growth slowed somewhat during the 1980s and early 90s in comparison to the rate of growth in decades before or since.

Steinbach Manitoba attracted prominent attention in 2004 when Mennonite author Miriam Toews, who was born and grew up in Steinbach Manitoba, published her novel A Complicated Kindness.

Steinbach Manitoba continued to grow during Magnusson's tenure and, after the election of Chris Goertzen as mayor in 2006, became one of the fastest-growing cities in Canada.

In 2011, Steinbach was officially announced as Manitoba's third-largest city, with the release of the population data from the 2011 Canadian Census.

Steinbach Manitoba gained national recognition from such newspapers as The Globe and Mail, which described the city as an immigration "hotbed" of Canada and a model for immigrant integration.

Steinbach Manitoba was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in August 2020, with the virus affecting community members, several businesses, and eventually an outbreak at Bethesda Place, the personal care home at Bethesda Regional Health Centre.

In 1950 Steinbach Manitoba citizens voted to prohibit all liquor sales in the community, although a drinking establishment on Main Street called The Tourist Hotel was allowed to remain, until it closed in 1973.

Since the 1970s, Steinbach Manitoba has had 7 separate referenda on whether liquor sales should be allowed within the confines of the city, all of which failed until a 2003 referendum when Steinbach Manitoba residents narrowly voted to allow limited liquor sales in the city, despite opposition from then mayor Les Magnusson.

In February 2008, Steinbach Manitoba Council voted in favour of opening a liquor store on Main Street, as prohibition had been lifted.

In 2018, after the Canadian government legalized cannabis, Steinbach Manitoba residents voted to deny the licensing of retail cannabis stores in the city.

Steinbach Manitoba is located on the eastern edge of the Canadian Prairies, and is located directly east of the Red River Valley.

The areas to the west and north of Steinbach are defined as flat tallgrass prairie, and part of the Lake Manitoba Plain.

Steinbach Manitoba is close to many Canadian Shield lakes, such as those located in Whiteshell Provincial Park and the Lake of the Woods in Kenora.

Since the 1950s, Steinbach Manitoba has been known as a centre for automobile sales, marketing itself as the "Automobile City".

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Steinbach Manitoba has a diversity of jobs and industries within the community.

Crops grown on the fertile farmland surrounding Steinbach Manitoba primarily include canola, corn, alfalfa, as well as barley, soybeans, oats, and wheat.

Census data from 2011 shows that Steinbach Manitoba has a higher than average rate of religious affiliation of 88.

Steinbach Manitoba is unique in that there are no railways or rivers passing through town, so transportation to and from Steinbach Manitoba has always been via road.

PTH 12 south from Steinbach Manitoba is single-lane and ends at the American border at Sprague.

Steinbach Manitoba is situated on an alternate route between Winnipeg and Thunder Bay, Ontario which is named MOM's Way.

Water supply for Steinbach Manitoba comes from three wells drilled into a limestone aquifer and a water treatment plant that was upgraded in 2006.

The school system in Steinbach Manitoba is dictated by the province through the Steinbach Manitoba Public Schools Act.

Schools in Steinbach Manitoba consist of three Early Years Elementary Schools: Woodlawn, Southwood and Elmdale which provide education from kindergarten through Grade 4.

Steinbach Manitoba has had a public library since 1973, although serious efforts to establish a regional library began in 1968 when Mary Barkman organized a Friends of the Library group.

Steinbach Manitoba is known for having a significant place in the world of Mennonite literature.

Steinbach Manitoba has been home to novelist Byron Rempel, memoirist Lynette Loeppky, poets Lynnette D'anna, Luann Hiebert, and Audrey Poetker, as well as historians Royden Loewen and Delbert Plett, among others.

Regional cuisine unique to Steinbach Manitoba would include various Mennonite dishes such as vereniki, farmer sausage, sunflower seeds, yerba mate and roll kuchen.

In 2018, Steinbach Manitoba became a sister city with Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, which is near where all of Steinbach Manitoba's pioneering families immigrated from in the 1870s.

Steinbach Manitoba is the headquarters of both the Evangelical Mennonite Conference, formerly known as the Kleine Gemeinde, and the Christian Mennonite Conference, formerly known as Chortitzer Mennonite Conference.

Steinbach Manitoba has three radio stations run by Golden West Broadcasting: AM 1250 is an easy listening station, Mix 96.

Steinbach Manitoba is home to Die Mennonitische Post, one of the last remaining German-language newspapers in North America.

Steinbach Manitoba Fly-in Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course adjacent to the local airport.

Steinbach Manitoba has hosted two Safeway Select Provincial Men's Curling Championships .