Say Hello to Leask Hutterite Colony

November 7, 2007 · Filed Under Hutterite Books, Hutterites 

Sara Anne Wollman works in the community kitchen while Marlo and Mariah keep an eye on the action. Herald photo by Karen Longwell

By Karen Longwell of The Herald staff:
A morning visit to the Leask Hutterite Colony is an educational experience and a look into a unique culture.

The colony is located about 65 kilometres southwest of Prince Albert.

With Mary-Ann Kirkby, Prince Albert author of the book “I am Hutterite“, as a guide, I was able to photograph and meet people on the colony.

There are about 75 people living in the colony.

The community is designed with the kitchen building in the centre. Residents take their meals in the dining hall and all the women work together to prepare the meals.

Resident homes are built in a square shape around the kitchen and outside of the homes is the farm. There is grain farming and dairy cattle.

The colony also has a school and church at the core. Students learn from both a Hutterite teacher and a non-Hutterite teacher until high school level.

High school students can study through courses on the Internet.

Young people learn English in school but the first language, a German dialect thought to have originated from the Corinthian province in Austria, is spoken within the colony.

Clothing styles are traditional and modest. Long dresses and headscarves for women; pants, shirts, suspenders and hats for men.

There are more than 40,000 Hutterites living on about 400 colonies throughout Canada’s Prairie provinces and in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Washington and Montana in the United States.

klongwell@paherald.sk.ca

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6 Responses to “Say Hello to Leask Hutterite Colony”

  1. steven don stahl on December 15th, 2008 10:26 am

    Hi Jerry i live in canada the name of our colony is Tschetter colony.

  2. sarah oconnor on January 8th, 2009 11:31 pm

    hello to all i would like some dresses and coverings do you know where i can get some i would like to become a hutterite so please let me know how i can get some for me my e-mail is
    mateoloco21@yahoo.com thank-you,
    God Bless You,
    Sarah Oconnor

  3. David on April 18th, 2009 12:40 pm

    Good Day
    Hope all had a good Easter and all are looking forward to spring.

  4. Richard Louis Sorrentino on July 1st, 2009 12:36 am

    I am like Sarah O’connor. I want to become a Hutterite now and not wait any longer. I live here in Iowa and do not own any personal property so I can come right away. I want to be a blessing to whatever Colony will have me. I am a new member of the Hutterite Social Network and yearn for the day soon when I can wear my overalls and suspenders, working in the fields, and doing what the Lord and the Colony bid me to do. I need some way of connecting to a Colony so I can come and live as a Hutterite. I have been listening to the Hutterian choirs and find this music beautiful in its simplicity. I wish to join my voice to theirs as we praise our magnificient Lord. Anyone who is in a Colony may respond to my email.

  5. geraldo leal on August 15th, 2009 5:38 pm

    you must understand there is only one true church the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Please look for a priest to convert and be baptized.
    God bless you

  6. Barbara Brooks on September 8th, 2009 11:25 pm

    I visited Starland Hutterite colony in Minnesota a couple of years ago. They are open to having outsiders join. You’ll have to call them up and visit them in person. I think if you google Starland Colony or Starland Metals, you can locate them. I think the town is Gifford.

    Also, Don Murphy (www.anabaptistchurch.org) has a son who joined a colony. He is a good resource.

    Good luck–but women don’t wear overalls and suspenders–they always, always wear dresses!

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