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Volume 10, Issue 34, Week of August 26, 2013
Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Little Little church church on on the the
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The Pleasant Point Mennonite Church is eight miles from Clavet and 10 miles from Dundurn (Photo by Steve Gibb)
Mennonite church community cornerstone for 104 years Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express
families there. This was a Mennonite family here. On that yard on the hill was a Mennonite family. There was another ince 1909, people have come and yard over there. Half the people in the gone but Pleasant Point Mennonite community were Mennonite. That has Church remains. It is used for changed. The numbers are less than they Sunday services, weddings, funerals and used to be. Farms are much larger.” the occasional community event. It is eight Today the church has new siding. There miles from Clavet and 10 from Dundurn. have been two additions and it has been There are acres and acres of land in modernized. The original bell has been between. replaced. Pastor Harry Harder stands outside the The church is beautiful in its simplicity. quaint little church and point as he talks. No stained glass, a red carpet runs up “I grew up on the yard over there. When the middle and linoleum to each side. I grew up, there were two Mennonite The basement has a kitchen and a long
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row of wooden tables. It is a place for parishioners to gather. “If you know anything about Mennonites, they eat a lot.” Harder said with a laugh. “So this is a very important part of the building. We often had meals together. That is very important to us.” As he speaks, Harder provides a brief history lesson. A group of Moravian settlers were the builders, arriving in Canada before the Mennonites. The first Mennonites arrived in the area in 1924 as refugees from the Russian Revolution. They faced tough times. Standing in the cemetery, Harder points
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to a piece of land west of the church. He said 70 families spent their first winter there. “It had a large house and basically they lived in granaries and the house for the first winter. Over the next few years everyone dispersed and moved onto their own quarter section (of land). He credits a local landowner for helping Mennonites get settled. He sold the land “on very good financial terms.” The Mennonite immigrants first worshipped without a church. Then the
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