LA CRETE, AB

The small town of La Crete, Alberta has been officially declared the northern most Mennonite town in the world and thus becomes the capital city for all Mennonite towns north of the 58th parallel. La Crete is also the only Mennonite town north of the famous “ Line.”

“For obvious reason, Mennonites normally never settle north of the Line. If you can’t grow , it’s very hard for Mennonites to survive!” explained local historian Peter Krahn. “For centuries Mennonites have been heading south, from Prussia to south Russia, from Canada to Mexico…and then to Paraguay, but for some reason the Mennonites of La Crete decided to go in the opposite direction.”

Being so far north, the Mennos of La Crete are heartier and harder working than any of the “lazy knack zoat-relient ” down sout

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