Amish Mennonites in Ontario

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Celebrating their 200th Anniversary in Ontario in 2024, Amish Mennonites are today a well established part of provincial history. First arriving in Wilmot Township (Waterloo County) in 1824, today these Anabaptist Christians are represented in Wellesley Township, Perth East, the city of Stratford, and also in Whitechurch (NW of Wingham).

A diverse history has seen Amish Mennonite divisions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, forming traditional, conservative and progressive branches. Today the Old Order Amish, the Beachy Amish Mennonites, and the Maranatha Amish Mennonites are the three descendant groups of the original settlers, with the progressive group of Amish Mennonites now a part of Mennonite Church Canada.

After divisions between the House Amish and emerging Church Amish in the United States, the same occurred in southwestern Ontario in 1886 in Waterloo and Perth counties.