Schanzenfeld, Manitoba

Schanzenfeld is a small community of several hundred people about 1 km south of Winkler, Manitoba, Canada. Largely a Mennonite community, its close vicinity to Winkler should one day make it a suburb of the much larger City of Winkler (pop 9000). The village was named after Jacob Schantz, who was a business man from Ontario who helped the Mennonites migrate from Russia to southern Manitoba more than 100 years ago. Coincidentally, the early twenty first century has also seen a steady influx of Russian and German born Mennonites settle in Schanzenfeld and surrounding areas.

"'School:' Southwood Elementary (k-6)