Mitchell is a local urban district and population centre located in the Rural Municipality of Hanover, Manitoba, Canada. It is located three kilometers west of Steinbach, Manitoba along Provincial Highway 52. The community has a population of 3,136 as of 2016, making Mitchell the 19th largest population centre in Manitoba.
Cairn honouring oberschulz Jacob Peters at Vollwerk Cemetery in Mitchell
The East Reserve was a block settlement in Manitoba set aside by the Government of Canada exclusively for settlement by Russian Mennonite settlers in 1873. Most of the East Reserve's earliest settlers were from the Kleine Gemeinde or Bergthaler Mennonite churches.
East Reserve marker at Mennonite Heritage Village, Steinbach, MB, 2020
Mennonite settlers landed here at the forks of the Rat and Red River in 1874.
Cairn honouring Jacob Peters, obserschulze of East Reserve, in Mitchell, Manitoba