[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Edenwald - EdenWold spelling
Jack Milner
wjmilner at shaw.ca
Tue Nov 8 07:30:06 PST 2005
Dear listers,
The official name is Edenwold and here is why:
Emigrants lived in a settlement which they named Neu-Tulscha (also
spelled Neu-Tulcea or New Tulscha), first settled in 1885. According to
various accounts, the name was changed when the Reverend H. Schmieder, a
Lutheran missionary, came to the district in 1889. He told Phillip Mang,
Sr., that it reminded him of the Garden of Eden. Mang was perhaps
thinking about the many aspen groves when he said that it looked more
like woods than a garden and thereby introduced the name "Edenwald.
"This name was sent to Ottawa, the Canadian capital, for registration,
but a clerical error substituted an "o" for the "a," and the spelling
has remained Edenwold
Jack Milner
More information about the Ger-Poland-Volhynia
mailing list