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Old 06-05-2018, 10:24 AM
 
Location: Canada
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What I meant is that the Mennonites who came to Canada from Russia were from the Volga region. I think we are talking about the same population.

I studied a bit of Plautdietsch (from McCaffrey's Wi Leahre Plautdietsch: A Beginner's Guide to Mennonite Low German) and have a copy of De Bibel, the Bible in Plautdietsch. I've heard it on YouTube. I know Standard German and Dutch. Plautdietsch seems to be between the two, but closer to the German.

“Velot die opp däm Harn met dien gaunzet Hoat, un velot die nich opp dien ieejnet Vestaunt.” (Spricha 3:5)
No, the Mennonites who came to Canada weren't from the Volga region. The original two colonies were on the Molotschna River and the Dniepr.

ETA: colonies branched out from those two colonies and were referred to as daughter colonies and there were a couple of colonies in the Volga area, which may be why you describe it that way, but they were minor colonies, and wouldn't account for a description of Canada-bound Russian Mennonites being described as being from the Volga area.

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Old 06-05-2018, 10:30 AM
 
Location: DC metropolitan area
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I've never heard of anything like that. Would you have a link?

You may be confusing another law and conflating drug smuggling with citizenship. ’28-year rule’ catches hundreds who had Canadian citizenship revoked | Vancouver Sun
It's been several years... and so now I'm having to rely on memory (which in all likelihood has become corrupt)... and with no "online story" found to "back me up".

For what it's worth, here's a CBC article on drug smuggling by Mennonites from Mexico in Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...king-1.2626314.

Immigration Canada limited the "citizenship by descent" legal clause in 2009. I had been under the impression that this was partially in response to the problem of drug smuggling by the Mennonites, but I'm sure it is much more complicated.

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