Grunthal, Manitoba

Grunthal (German: Grünthal, 'Green Valley') is a local urban district[1] in the Rural Municipality of Hanover, Manitoba, located 24 kilometers southwest of Steinbach, and about 50 minutes south of Winnipeg.

[2] Tourist attractions include Grunthal's Annual Fairdays held on the third weekend in August; it features a parade and a rodeo, among other activities.

[3] The community of Grunthal was settled in 1876 by Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites immigrants, from Imperial Russia, specifically the Bergthal Colony.

[4] Grunthal was one of dozens of village of what was known as the East Reserve, an area set aside by the Government of Canada for Mennonite settlement, and it is now populated with their descendants, as well as people of Ukrainian and German descent and other ethnicities.

[5] Grunthal has inspired literary works by author Jack Thiessen, who grew up nearby, as well as satirist Andrew Unger and poet Chimwemwe Undi.