Friedenstal is a locality in Alberta, Canada. It is located 4 kilometers southeast of Fairview in Municipal District of Fairview No. 136 in the Peace Region of northwestern Alberta. Friedenstal was founded in 1910 by Peter Gans and Lewis Flath just before the First World War. Gans would soon send reports to German Newspapers urging Bessarbian settlers in U…
Friedenstal is a locality in Alberta, Canada. It is located 4 kilometers southeast of Fairview in Municipal District of Fairview No. 136 in the Peace Region of northwestern Alberta. Friedenstal was founded in 1910 by Peter Gans and Lewis Flath just before the First World War. Gans would soon send reports to German Newspapers urging Bessarbian settlers in Ukraine, Russian Empire and United States. On August 9, 1911 Archbishop Célestin-Henri Joussard O.M.I visited the settlement bringing with him German speaking Rev. A Biehler O.M.I. Father Biehler would return in October of the same year with plans to build a small log chapel and rectory the settlement was populated by immigrant settlers of German origin who had previously settled in Ukraine. The settlement was officially founded sometime between 1911 and 1914, the consensus today is that the settlement was officially founded in 1912.
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