Town of Bruderheim; History

Origin

According to the Alberta Department of Municipal Affairs, Bruderheim was incorporated as a town on Sep. 17, 1980 and was established as a village on May 29, 1908. (Source, p. 99)

However, Bruderheim became settled some years before 1908, beginning in about 1895, when the area was settled on account of a land grant to settlers of German origin from Tsarist Russia, in the Ukrainian province of Volhynia. See for example Lamont County's Self-guided Church Tours, p. 2 (4 of 52).  According to that, the Bruderheim Moravian Church organized its first congregation in 1895, and two years later, in 1997, the Bethlehem Lutheran Church was first organized.

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Posted 2008 06 27