Review of The Windmill Turning; Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, and Other Expressions of Western Canadian Mennonites

Authors

Victor Peters, Moorhead State University

Date of this Version

1990

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly SUMMER 1990 .Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

Canada and the United States provide the home for two basic types of Mennonites who have little more than their beliefs in common. The older group settled mainly in the east and came to America directly from various German states. Their immigration began in 1683 and initiated the broader stream of German immigration. The other group were the West Prussian Mennonites who left their homes in Russia and came to Canada and the United States in the 1870s.