Randolph, originally known as Chortitz, is a small community in the Rural Municipality of Hanover, Manitoba, Canada. The community has an estimated population of 70 and is located 1.6 kilometres north of Highway 52 on Provincial Road 206 about 11 kilometres west of Steinbach. Randolph is located within a half kilometre of the longitudinal centre of Canada.
Chortitz church and cemetery, 2021
Historic Neufeld Garage, now Randolph Community Centre
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