Schanzenfeld

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Schanzenfeld is a small community in the Rural Municipality of Stanley, Manitoba, Canada, located about 1 mile south of the City of Winkler. Largely a Mennonite community, its close vicinity to Winkler has made it a suburb of the city.

The village was named after Jacob Yost Shantz, a businessman from Ontario who helped German-speaking Mennonites migrate from Imperial Russia to southern Manitoba. He visited areas of southern Manitoba in 1872 to explore possibilities for Mennonite settlement.

The community is first noted on a Department of the Interior map in 1881. It opened a post office ion 21-2-4W in 1884 but it was soon moved to Winkler on 4-3-4W. The community was on 16-2-4W and 21-2-4W while the school district was located at SW22-2-4W.^{[citation needed]}

Economy[]

Schanzenfed has a very diversified economy. The local economy consists of two meat shops (Banman Meats and Southern Meats), Newline Boilers, Western Farm Services, and a feedlot that has a capacity of 499 beef cows owned by the Enns Cattle Co.^{[citation needed]}

A random poll that took place in Schanzenfeld suggested that the most common occupation in Schanzenfeld is a bus driver.^{[citation needed]}

The Division 1 Baseball star is from Schanzenfeld.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

• R.M. of Stanley
• Geographic Names of Manitoba (pg. 243) - the Millennium Bureau of Canada
• the Dictionary of Canadian Biography - Jacob Yost Shantz

Coordinates: 49°07′58″N 97°56′30″W / 49.13278°N 97.94167°W / 49.13278; -97.94167

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