Bender Hamlet, Manitoba was a
Baron Maurice de Hirsch
Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth (german: Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth; french: Maurice, baron de Hirsch de Gereuth; 9 December 1831 – 21 April 1896), commonly known as Maurice de Hirsch, was a German Jewish financier and phil ...
sponsored Jewish farm colony in the
Rural Municipality of Armstrong
Armstrong is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It lies in the southern area of the Interlake and was named after James William Armstrong, a Manitoba politician.
History
The surrounding area was settled by immigr ...
, part of the
Interlake
Interlake was a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1979, and has formally existed since the 1981 provincial election. Previously, much of the Interlake region was includ ...
region in the province of
Manitoba
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. The centre of the settlement was located at
quarter section
In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally , containing , with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid.
The legal description of a tract of land under the PLSS inc ...
North West 36Township 19, Range 1 west of the Principal Meridian (NW36-19-1W).
Bender Hamlet was originally settled in 1903 and was named after Jacob Bender, a land speculator who recruited settlers from Europe, but who himself never actually lived in the settlement.
The settlement was set up
shtetl
A shtetl or shtetel (; yi, שטעטל, translit=shtetl (singular); שטעטלעך, romanized: ''shtetlekh'' (plural)) is a Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before ...
-style, where all the houses of the families were placed together in the centre of the settlement, in a row along the south side of the colonization road. This was similar to the village orientation experienced by the settlers in Europe.
In 1912 the now defunct
Canadian Northern Railway
The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway. At its 1923 merger into the Canadian National Railway , the CNoR owned a main line between Quebec City and Vancouver via Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Edmonton.
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arrived 2 km west of the hamlet. The last of the hamlet's settlers left in November 1926, effectively ending the colony.
A Manitoba Heritage Council commemorative plaque was installed at the site of the former Bender Hamlet in 1987.
[Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/hrb/plaques/plaq0086.html]
See also
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Baron Maurice de Hirsch
Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth (german: Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth; french: Maurice, baron de Hirsch de Gereuth; 9 December 1831 – 21 April 1896), commonly known as Maurice de Hirsch, was a German Jewish financier and phil ...
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Jewish Colonization Association
The Jewish Colonisation Association (JCA or ICA, Yiddish ייִק"אַ), in America spelled Jewish Colonization Association, is an organisation created on September 11, 1891, by Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigratio ...
*
Narcisse
Narcisse can be both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* Narcisse Bambara (born 1989), Burkinabé footballer
* Narcisse Blais (1812–1888), Canadian farmer and political figure in Quebec
* Narcisse Bonan ...
, Manitoba
References
External links
Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques
Ghost towns in Manitoba
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