Reinfeld is an Unincorporated Urban Community (UUC) in the

Rural Municipality of Stanley Stanley is a rural municipality (RM) in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It is located in the southern part of the province, along its border with the state of North Dakota in the United States. Since 1876, the area made up part of ...

in the

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, about one km east of Winkler. Mainly a

Mennonite Mennonites are a group of Anabaptism, Anabaptist Christianity, Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name ''Mennonites'' is derived from the cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland, part of ...

community, its relative vicinity to Winkler makes it a possible candidate to become a

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in the future.

History

In the 1880 Village Census of the West Reserve, Reinfeld was populated by 12 males and 1 female. By the 1890s it was a well developed village. Because of its proximity to

Winkler, Manitoba Winkler is a city in Manitoba, Canada with a population of 13,745 ( census agglomeration 32,655), making it the 4th largest city in Manitoba, as of the 2021 Canadian census. It is located in southern Manitoba, surrounded by the Rural Municipality ...

it has seen rapid growth of late.

References

''Manitoba Historical Society - Manitoba Settlement and the Mennonite West Reserve (1875-1876)''
Unincorporated communities in Pembina Valley Region Mennonitism in Manitoba {{Manitoba-geo-stub