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Hutterite†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a Christian sect of frugal farmers living (since 1918) in communities in the Prairie Provinces. See 1963 quote.
See: Hutterite colony
Quotations
1955
The meeting was an unofficial gathering of Hutterite leaders and councillors of some of the municipalities in which Manitoba's 22 colonies are located.
1960
One reads of the Hutterites, the Mormons and the remittance men "who may have been green but were never yellow ". . . .
1963
The Hutterites sprang from the Anabaptist movement in Switzerland in 1528, taking their name from Jacob Hutter, a leader who was burned at the stake in Tyrol in 1535.