One Day, 6,000 Canadians gave up everything to become Mexican

Blonde hair. German dialect. Horse-drawn carriages. And they’ve been proudly calling Chihuahua home for over 100 YEARS. This is the story of the Mennonites of Mexico — and it’s more Mexican than you think. THE ESCAPE: In the 1920s, Canada broke its 1874 promise and began forcing Mennonite children into public English-only schools — while […]

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