Opening in 1967 and undergoing numerous expansions since then, the Mennonite Heritage Village is Steinbach's foremost cultural facility and tourist attraction.
It provides a glimpse at the life of Mennonite settlers through a reconstructed street village and interpretive displays.
Its Dutch windmill, which was rebuilt (with help from Dutch millwrights) after the 1972 replica was destroyed by arson in 2000, is a recognized symbol of the city.

The Mennonite Heritage Village's Pioneer Days Parade and festival has existed each August since the 1970s.
Steinbach's 'Summer in the City' festival is held on Main Street each June.
The Steinbach Arts Council has showcased Steinbach arts and culture, of various types, since the 1980s.

The Johann G. Barkman Heritage Walkway, stretching along Elmdale Drive, is named after an early long-time mayor, and features plaques and other historic markers documenting the life of early Steinbach along the, now dry, Steinbach Creek.

Steinbach has had a public library since 1973, although serious efforts to establish a regional library began in 1968 when Mary Barkman organized a Friends of the Library group.
In 1997, the library moved into its own newly constructed building and was renamed Jake Epp Library.
Jake Epp, former MP of Provencher, had appointed the very first Library Board in 1973.
Mary Barkman, a key figure in the founding of the Library, was also honored at the opening ceremony.
After his death in 1998, the library revealed a plaque and reading garden honouring former local teacher Melvin Toews, father of author Miriam Toews and subject of her book Swing Low: A Life.
A major library expansion was completed in 2012.

Steinbach is known for having a significant place in the world of Mennonite literature.
Arnold Dyck was the editor of the German-language Steinbach Post in the early 20th century and the first writer to use Plautdietsch as a written language.
In the 1970s and 80s came the work of poet Patrick Friesen, author of The Shunning and many other works, novelist and literary critic Al Reimer, author of My Harp is Turned to Mourning and the Kleindarp stories, and Roy Vogt, founder of the Mennonite Mirror and the Mennonite Literary Society.
Beginning in the 1990s, Steinbach's most well-known author Miriam Toews has written numerous award-winning and bestselling novels, some of which are set in Steinbach.
Her non-fiction book Swing Low: A Life is set in Steinbach, while her bestselling novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows are set in the fictional East Village, widely regarded to be based on her hometown.
Scholar Magdalene Redekop cites the Christian revival meetings held in Steinbach during the 50s and 60s as an early impetus for the secular Mennonite literary boom of the 1980s.
It is not insignificant, according to Redekop, that both Friesen and Toews, were of Kleine Gemeinde background, a group that was particularly impacted by evangelical revivalists.
In 2016, Steinbach writer Andrew Unger started The Daily Bonnet, a website that publishes satirical Russian Mennonite news stories.
Steinbach has also been home to novelist Byron Rempel, poets Lynnette D'anna, Luann Hiebert, and Audrey Poetker, as well as historians Royden Loewen and Delbert Plett, among others.

Steinbach is the headquarters of both the Evangelical Mennonite Conference, formerly known as the Kleine Gemeinde, and the Christian Mennonite Conference, formerly known as Chortitzer Mennonite Conference.

In 2018, Steinbach became a sister city with Zaporizhia, Ukraine, which is near where all of Steinbach's pioneering families immigrated from in the 1870s.
Opening in 1967 and undergoing numerous expansions since then, the Mennonite Heritage Village is Steinbach's foremost cultural facility and tourist attraction. It provides a glimpse at the life of Mennonite settlers through a reconstructed street village and interpretive displays. Its Dutch windmill, which was rebuilt (with help from Dutch millwrights) after the 1972 replica was destroyed by arson in 2000, is a recognized symbol of the city.
The Mennonite Heritage Village's Pioneer Days Parade and festival has existed each August since the 1970s. Steinbach's 'Summer in the City' festival is held on Main Street each June. The Steinbach Arts Council has showcased Steinbach arts and culture, of various types, since the 1980s.
The Johann G. Barkman Heritage Walkway, stretching along Elmdale Drive, is named after an early long-time mayor, and features plaques and other historic markers documenting the life of early Steinbach along the, now dry, Steinbach Creek.
Steinbach has had a public library since 1973, although serious efforts to establish a regional library began in 1968 when Mary Barkman organized a Friends of the Library group. In 1997, the library moved into its own newly constructed building and was renamed Jake Epp Library. Jake Epp, former MP of Provencher, had appointed the very first Library Board in 1973. Mary Barkman, a key figure in the founding of the Library, was also honored at the opening ceremony. After his death in 1998, the library revealed a plaque and reading garden honouring former local teacher Melvin Toews, father of author Miriam Toews and subject of her book Swing Low: A Life. A major library expansion was completed in 2012.
Steinbach is known for having a significant place in the world of Mennonite literature. Arnold Dyck was the editor of the German-language Steinbach Post in the early 20th century and the first writer to use Plautdietsch as a written language. In the 1970s and 80s came the work of poet Patrick Friesen, author of The Shunning and many other works, novelist and literary critic Al Reimer, author of My Harp is Turned to Mourning and the Kleindarp stories, and Roy Vogt, founder of the Mennonite Mirror and the Mennonite Literary Society. Beginning in the 1990s, Steinbach's most well-known author Miriam Toews has written numerous award-winning and bestselling novels, some of which are set in Steinbach. Her non-fiction book Swing Low: A Life is set in Steinbach, while her bestselling novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows are set in the fictional East Village, widely regarded to be based on her hometown. Scholar Magdalene Redekop cites the Christian revival meetings held in Steinbach during the 50s and 60s as an early impetus for the secular Mennonite literary boom of the 1980s. It is not insignificant, according to Redekop, that both Friesen and Toews, were of Kleine Gemeinde background, a group that was particularly impacted by evangelical revivalists. In 2016, Steinbach writer Andrew Unger started The Daily Bonnet, a website that publishes satirical Russian Mennonite news stories. Steinbach has also been home to novelist Byron Rempel, poets Lynnette D'anna, Luann Hiebert, and Audrey Poetker, as well as historians Royden Loewen and Delbert Plett, among others.
Steinbach is the headquarters of both the Evangelical Mennonite Conference, formerly known as the Kleine Gemeinde, and the Christian Mennonite Conference, formerly known as Chortitzer Mennonite Conference.
In 2018, Steinbach became a sister city with Zaporizhia, Ukraine, which is near where all of Steinbach's pioneering families immigrated from in the 1870s.
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