Lakeside Hutterite Colony (Cranford, Alberta, Canada)
The Lakeside Hutterite Bruderhof, located near Cranford, Alberta, was founded in 1935. Their preacher, Peter Hofer, who was chosen in the Wolf Creek, South Dakota Bruderhof in 1926, moved to the Wolf Creek commune near Stirling, Alberta, and from there went with several families to found the Lakeside Bruderhof. Joseph Wipf was chosen to the ministry here in 1944. In 1947 the commune numbered 162 souls, with 64 baptized members.
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